The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Էջ 142 - Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools, Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Էջ 106 - Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden jack, which had almost Lost by disuse the art to roast, A sudden alteration...
Էջ 16 - Tongue,' in a letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much. knowledge of the general nature of language, and without any accurate inquiry into the history of other tongues. The certainty and stability which, contrary to all experience, he thinks attainable, he proposes to secure by instituting an academy ; the decrees of which, every man would have been willing, and many would have been proud, to disobey ; and which being renewed by successive elections, would in a short time have differed...
Էջ 13 - Who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For, had a hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Էջ 36 - That he has in his works no metaphor, as has been said, is not true; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice.
Էջ 111 - Till drown'd in shriller notes of chimney-sweep : Duns at his lordship's gate began to meet ; And brickdust Moll had scream'd through half the street. The turnkey now his flock returning sees, Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees: The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands, And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.
Էջ 235 - How the helm is ruled by Walpole, At whose oars, like slaves, they all pull ; Let the vessel split on shelves ; With the freight enrich themselves : Safe within my little wherry, All their madness makes me merry : Like the watermen of Thames, I row by, and call them names...
Էջ 11 - Burnet's right to the work, he was told by the bishop, that he was a young man; and, still persisting to doubt, that he was a very positive young man.
Էջ 138 - He hardly knew, till he was told, Whether the nymph were young or old ; Had met her in a public place, Without distinguishing'her face: Much less could his declining age Vanessa's earliest thoughts engage ; And if her youth indifference met, His person must contempt beget : Or, grant her passion be sincere, How shall his innocence be clear ! Appearances were all so strong, The world must think him in the wrong; Would say he made a treacherous use Of wit, to flatter and seduce...
Էջ 108 - what's this you tell us? I hope you don't believe me jealous ! But yet, methinks, I feel it true, And really yours is budding too — Nay, — now I cannot stir my foot; It feels as if 'twere taking root.