Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... merit of Smart's verses was immediately and generally acknowledged . When afterwards , by the advice of his friends , he offered himself as a candidate for an university scholarship , he is said to have translated Pope's Ode on St ...
... merit of Smart's verses was immediately and generally acknowledged . When afterwards , by the advice of his friends , he offered himself as a candidate for an university scholarship , he is said to have translated Pope's Ode on St ...
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... merit printed in that magazine is as a brilliant set in gold , and increased not diminished in its lustre . " It would be trifling to notice these little matters , did they not throw some light on the character and pursuits of our ...
... merit printed in that magazine is as a brilliant set in gold , and increased not diminished in its lustre . " It would be trifling to notice these little matters , did they not throw some light on the character and pursuits of our ...
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... merit of which Smart's fortune at that time depended : he hints also among other favours , that he had been the means of introducing him to Newbery ; and for all this , the only return Smart made was by an abusive poem , " a long ...
... merit of which Smart's fortune at that time depended : he hints also among other favours , that he had been the means of introducing him to Newbery ; and for all this , the only return Smart made was by an abusive poem , " a long ...
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... merit wrong ; Ideots usurp thy title , and thy frame , Without or virtue , talent , taste , or name . Is apathy , is heart of steel , Nor ear to hear , nor sense to feel , Life idly inoffensive such a grace , That it shou'd steal thy ...
... merit wrong ; Ideots usurp thy title , and thy frame , Without or virtue , talent , taste , or name . Is apathy , is heart of steel , Nor ear to hear , nor sense to feel , Life idly inoffensive such a grace , That it shou'd steal thy ...
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... generations wise , Each path of interest they have sagely trod , - To live - to thrive - to rise - and still to rise- Better to bow to men , than kneel to God . Behold where poor unmansion'd Merit stands , All cold , ODES . 19.
... generations wise , Each path of interest they have sagely trod , - To live - to thrive - to rise - and still to rise- Better to bow to men , than kneel to God . Behold where poor unmansion'd Merit stands , All cold , ODES . 19.
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Page 80 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 495 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 97 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 494 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 494 - All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 494 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 502 - Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see, Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restor'd to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And ev'ry care resign: And shall we never, never part, My life, — my all that's mine. "No, never, from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 495 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 495 - 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.
Page 495 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.