Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with CutsJ. Wilkes, 1772 |
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... worth , because that worth was MINE , " Twice did those blockheads ftartle at my name , " And , foul rejection ! give me up to shame . " To laws and lawyers then I bid adieu , " And plans of far more lib'ral note pursue . " Who will may ...
... worth , because that worth was MINE , " Twice did those blockheads ftartle at my name , " And , foul rejection ! give me up to shame . " To laws and lawyers then I bid adieu , " And plans of far more lib'ral note pursue . " Who will may ...
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... Worth for me . " --- For who , like him , his various pow'rs could call Into fo many fhapes , and fhine in all ? Who could fo nobly grace the motley lift , Actor , Infpector , Doctor , Botanist ? Knows any one fo well , fure no one ...
... Worth for me . " --- For who , like him , his various pow'rs could call Into fo many fhapes , and fhine in all ? Who could fo nobly grace the motley lift , Actor , Infpector , Doctor , Botanist ? Knows any one fo well , fure no one ...
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... worth ; His looks bespoke applause ; alone he stood , Alone he stemm'd the mighty critic flood . He talk'd of ancients , as the man became Who priz'd our own , but envied - not their fame ; With noble rev'rence spoke of Greece and Rome ...
... worth ; His looks bespoke applause ; alone he stood , Alone he stemm'd the mighty critic flood . He talk'd of ancients , as the man became Who priz'd our own , but envied - not their fame ; With noble rev'rence spoke of Greece and Rome ...
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... worth they reap applaufe , Each on himself determines to rely , Be YATES disbanded , and let ELLIOT fly . Never did play'rs fo well an author fit , To Nature dead , and foes declar'd to Wit . So loud each tongue , fo empty was each head ...
... worth they reap applaufe , Each on himself determines to rely , Be YATES disbanded , and let ELLIOT fly . Never did play'rs fo well an author fit , To Nature dead , and foes declar'd to Wit . So loud each tongue , fo empty was each head ...
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... worth thy wond'rous waste of pains , To publish to the world thy lack of brains ? Or might not reafon , e'en to thee , have fhewn -Thy greatest praife had been to live UNKNOWN ? Yet let not vanity , like thine , defpair : Fortune makes ...
... worth thy wond'rous waste of pains , To publish to the world thy lack of brains ? Or might not reafon , e'en to thee , have fhewn -Thy greatest praife had been to live UNKNOWN ? Yet let not vanity , like thine , defpair : Fortune makes ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
APICIUS bafe Bard Becauſe Behold beſt boaſt breaſt caufe cauſe CHARLES CHURCHILL courſe crimes curfe dar'd dare defire dull DULMAN e'en earth eaſe ev'ry facred fafe faid falfe fame Fate fcorn fear feem fenfe fhall fhame fhew fhould fide firſt flaves fleep foes Folly fome fons Fools foul ftand ftill fuch gainſt grace hath heart Heav'n herſelf himſelf honeft Honour juft Juftice juſt King lefs Lord mighty moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers o'er paffions paſs plac'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe prefent pride Profe purpoſe purſue rage raiſe Reafon reign rhime rife ſeen Senfe ſhall ſhame ſhe ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak ſtage ſtand ſtart ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe Thou thought thouſand thro throne Truth turn'd uſe Vice vile Virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe wife worfe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 32 - I hear, and hate — be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.
Seite 132 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Seite 50 - Who ever read the REGICIDE but swore The author wrote as man ne'er wrote before? Others for plots and under-plots may call, Here's the right method — have no plot at all. Who can so often in his cause engage The tiny Pathos of the Grecian stage, Whilst horrors rise, and tears spontaneous flow At tragic Ha!
Seite 107 - In itself charming, take new charms from place. Nothing of books, and little known of men, When the mad fit comes on, I seize the pen, Rough as they run, the rapid thoughts set down. Rough as they run, discharge them on the town.
Seite 13 - Mark'd out her course, nor spar'da glorious fault ; The book of Man he read with nicest art, And ransack'd all the secrets of the heart, Exerted penetration's utmost force, And trac'd each...
Seite 71 - Fearfully wise, he shakes his empty head, And deals out empires as he deals out thread. His useless scales are in a corner flung, And Europe's balance hangs upon his tongue.
Seite 101 - Be proud with meannefsj and be mean with pride ; Deaf to the voice of Faith and Honour, fall From fide to fide, yet be of none at all ; Spurn all...
Seite 35 - That sense may kindly end with ev'ry line ? Some dozen lines before the ghost is there, Behold him for the solemn scene prepare. See how he frames his eyes, poises each limb, Puts the whole body into proper trim. — From whence we learn, with no great stretch of art, Five lines hence comes a ghost, and ha ! a start.
Seite 68 - NIGHT'S honest shade When pomp is buried and false colours fade, Plainly we see at that impartial hour Them dupes to pride, and him the tool of pow'r. God help the man, condemn'd by cruel fate To court the seeming, or the real great. Much sorrow shall he feel, and suffer more Than any slave who labours at the oar.
Seite 39 - Candour must declare he acts too much. Why must Impatience fall three paces back ? Why paces three return to the attack?