Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 3Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... write for the young , in whom it will be always time enough to have the passions awakened ; I write for a class of readers , to whom it is not easy to accom- modate one's subject , so as to be at once useful and interesting . I AM as ...
... write for the young , in whom it will be always time enough to have the passions awakened ; I write for a class of readers , to whom it is not easy to accom- modate one's subject , so as to be at once useful and interesting . I AM as ...
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... writes on the Wall these Words , MENE , MENE , TEKEL , UPHARSIN . He lets fall the Goblet , and stands in un ... writing , but the viewless writer , Who ? what is he ? Oh , horror ! horror ! horror ! It cannot be the God of these poor ...
... writes on the Wall these Words , MENE , MENE , TEKEL , UPHARSIN . He lets fall the Goblet , and stands in un ... writing , but the viewless writer , Who ? what is he ? Oh , horror ! horror ! horror ! It cannot be the God of these poor ...
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... write like Pope , To all the wonders of the Poet's lyre , Join all that taste can add , or wit inspire , With every various power of learning fraught , The flow of style and the sublime of thought ; Yet if the milder graces of the mind ...
... write like Pope , To all the wonders of the Poet's lyre , Join all that taste can add , or wit inspire , With every various power of learning fraught , The flow of style and the sublime of thought ; Yet if the milder graces of the mind ...
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... write in Epigrams , In pointed periods , shining phrases , And all the small poetic daisies , Which crowd the pert and florid style , Where fact is dropt to raise a smile ; Where notes indecent or profane Serve to raise doubts , but not ...
... write in Epigrams , In pointed periods , shining phrases , And all the small poetic daisies , Which crowd the pert and florid style , Where fact is dropt to raise a smile ; Where notes indecent or profane Serve to raise doubts , but not ...
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... write . Though not to me , sweet Bard , thy powers be- long , The cause I plead shall sanctify my song . The Muse awakes no artificial fire , For Truth rejects what Fancy would inspire : Here Art would weave her gayest flowers in vain ...
... write . Though not to me , sweet Bard , thy powers be- long , The cause I plead shall sanctify my song . The Muse awakes no artificial fire , For Truth rejects what Fancy would inspire : Here Art would weave her gayest flowers in vain ...
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arms Bavius beauty behold BELSHAZZAR bless bless'd bliss breast breath bright charms Columbo court cried crown'd Cupid DARIUS dear death delight Derry divine dread Dunciad e'en e'er earth ELIAB epigram eternal eyes fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame fond fool give glory goddess grace grief hand happy hast hear heart Heaven heavenly hero honour hope Iliad JOCHEBED king live Lord lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion PHARNACES Pindaric pleasure poem poet praise pride queen rage reign rise round sacred Sappho satire scene shade shine sigh sing skies smile soft song SORANUS soul spirit Spleen sweet taste tears tell thee thine things thou thought throne tongue trembling truth Twas verse vex'd Virgil virtue wings youth