 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...Yet then flail calm reflection blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, AN ODE. OTERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued ftrife -, And Nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...Yet Yet then fhall calm refle&ion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, AN ODE. N Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued ftrife ; And Nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...Yet then fhall calm reflection blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, AN ODE. QTERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued -ftrife j And Nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...fhall calm reflection blefs the night, ' When liberal pity dignified delight ; ' When pleafure fired her torch at virtue's flame, ' And mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' In the year 1777, he was induced, by a cafe of a very extraordinary nature, to the exercife of that... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...fhall calm reflexion blefs the night, f When liberal pity dignified delight ; ' When pleafure fired her torch at virtue's flame, ' And mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' In the year 1777, he was induced, by a cafe of a very extraordinary nature, to the exercife of that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 642 pages
...(hall calm reflexion blefs the night, * When liberal pity dignified delight; ' When pleafure fired her torch at virtue's flame, ' And mirth was bounty with an humbler name.' In the year 1777, he was induced, by a cafe of a very extraordinary nature, to the exercife of that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1789 - 248 pages
...Yet then fhall calm refleftion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. MESSI A. MESSI A. TOLLITE concentum, Styrruea; tollite nymphae ! Nil mortale loquor, cesium mihi carminis... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 370 pages
...Yet then fhall calm reflection blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. D 3 SPRING, SPRING, AN ODE. TERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long continued ftrife... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...Yet then fhall calm reflexion blefs the night, When liberal pity dignified delight ; When Pleafure fir'd her torch at virtue's flame, And mirth was bounty with an humbler name. SPRING, , , AN ODE. STERN Winter now, by Spring reprefs'd, Forbears the long- continued ftrife; And... | |
 | 1798 - 484 pages
...fhall calm reflecYton bkfs the night, лл When libtral Pity Hignify'd delight ; " When PIcafure fir d her torch at Virtue's flame, " And Mirth was bounty with an humbler name." TO AN APPLAUDED ACTOR IN TJ1K READING SCHOOL PLAY OF 1797. WELL haft tliou exercKed the mimic art,... | |
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tis too late to praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, must praise and blame be found, At last a fleeting gleam, or empty sound. 
