Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 97
... fatire and lampoon ; Or ftirr'd each fource of foft defire , And funn'd the coals of wanton fire : Then had my paltry Visions fold ; Yes , all my dreams had turn'd to gold ; Had prov'd the darlings of the town , And I - a Poet of renown ...
... fatire and lampoon ; Or ftirr'd each fource of foft defire , And funn'd the coals of wanton fire : Then had my paltry Visions fold ; Yes , all my dreams had turn'd to gold ; Had prov'd the darlings of the town , And I - a Poet of renown ...
Page 164
... fatire , that offends the ear Of vice and paffion , pleases her . Premifing this , your anger fpare ; And claim the fable you who dare . The birds in place , by fictions press'd , To Jupiter their pray'rs addrefs'd : By fpecious lyes ...
... fatire , that offends the ear Of vice and paffion , pleases her . Premifing this , your anger fpare ; And claim the fable you who dare . The birds in place , by fictions press'd , To Jupiter their pray'rs addrefs'd : By fpecious lyes ...
Page 228
... fatire learn'd to fare , And vice admir'd to find a flatt'rer there ! Encourag'd thus , wit's Titans brav'd the ... fatires , And flatt'ry to fulfome dedicators , [ more Whom , when they praife , the world believes no Than when they ...
... fatire learn'd to fare , And vice admir'd to find a flatt'rer there ! Encourag'd thus , wit's Titans brav'd the ... fatires , And flatt'ry to fulfome dedicators , [ more Whom , when they praife , the world believes no Than when they ...
Page 266
... fatire al impoon , and fiction lie- A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall dread , But all fuch babbling blockheads in his tead . Let Sporus tremble . - A . What ! that thing of filk ? The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at ...
... fatire al impoon , and fiction lie- A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall dread , But all fuch babbling blockheads in his tead . Let Sporus tremble . - A . What ! that thing of filk ? The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at ...
Page 274
... fatire rofe , that juft the medium hit , And heals with morals what it hurts with wit . We ' conquer'd France , but feit our captive's charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to foft retinements leis a foe , Wit ...
... fatire rofe , that juft the medium hit , And heals with morals what it hurts with wit . We ' conquer'd France , but feit our captive's charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to foft retinements leis a foe , Wit ...
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