Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784Thomas Campbell J. Murray, 1819 |
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... wild genius in the chains of taste , " he left the university abruptly , and coming to Lon- don , made a clandestine marriage in the Fleet . His father , though much displeased at the proceeding , became reconciled to what could not be ...
... wild genius in the chains of taste , " he left the university abruptly , and coming to Lon- don , made a clandestine marriage in the Fleet . His father , though much displeased at the proceeding , became reconciled to what could not be ...
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... wild alarms , And the whole state of man is up in arms ; What but a critic could condemn the play'r , For pausing here , when cool sense pauses there ? Whilst , working from the heart , the fire I trace , And mark it strongly flaming to ...
... wild alarms , And the whole state of man is up in arms ; What but a critic could condemn the play'r , For pausing here , when cool sense pauses there ? Whilst , working from the heart , the fire I trace , And mark it strongly flaming to ...
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... wild . -I'm glad I did not bring the child . Mrs. B. Don't be afraid , my dear , come on , Why don't you see the guards are gone ? Mrs. S. Well , I begin to draw my breath ; But I was almost scar'd to death ; For where a horse rears up ...
... wild . -I'm glad I did not bring the child . Mrs. B. Don't be afraid , my dear , come on , Why don't you see the guards are gone ? Mrs. S. Well , I begin to draw my breath ; But I was almost scar'd to death ; For where a horse rears up ...
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... 'd headlong , swam with pain the mantled pool ; Or scal'd the cliff ; or danc'd on hollow winds , With antic shapes , wild natives of the brain ? Her ceaseless flight , though devious , speaks her nature 52 EDWARD YOUNG ,
... 'd headlong , swam with pain the mantled pool ; Or scal'd the cliff ; or danc'd on hollow winds , With antic shapes , wild natives of the brain ? Her ceaseless flight , though devious , speaks her nature 52 EDWARD YOUNG ,
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... wild chase of false felicities , His , the compos'd possession of the true . Alike throughout is his consistent peace , All of one colour , and an even thread ; While party - colour'd shreds of happiness , With hideous gaps between ...
... wild chase of false felicities , His , the compos'd possession of the true . Alike throughout is his consistent peace , All of one colour , and an even thread ; While party - colour'd shreds of happiness , With hideous gaps between ...
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Էջ 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Էջ 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Էջ 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Էջ 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Էջ 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Էջ 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Էջ 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Էջ 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Էջ 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Էջ 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...