The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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AARON HILL Animalcule appeared arts beauty bless'd bliss bounty breast BRIDGET JONES bright Bristol censure charms clouds court death delight distress divine endeavoured exalted fair fame fate favour fire flame foes form'd fortune friendship genius give glows grace grief heart Heaven honour hope inspire justice kind liberty light live lord Tyrconnel lustre mankind mind misery mother Muse nature ne'er never o'er Olympia once pain passion patron pity pleasure poem praise pride priest queen racter raptures rays received refined retire RICHARD SAVAGE rise rocks satire Savage Savage's scape scene seraph shade shame shine Sir Robert Walpole Sir Thomas Overbury smile smiling song soft sorrows soul spirit spring sweet swell swimming dance tear tender thee Theophilus Cibber thine thou thought truth verse virtue wealth weep wild worth youth
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第 15 頁 - And being then asked why he did not discharge them, declared that they were bailiffs, who had introduced themselves with an execution ; and whom, since he could not send them away, he had thought it convenient to embellish with liveries, that they might do him credit while they stayed.
第 100 頁 - I may be allowed to be a bird of the Muses, I assure you, Sir, I sing very freely in my cage; sometimes indeed in the plaintive notes of the nightingale, but, at others, in the cheerful strains of the lark.
第 54 頁 - ... the disadvantages of his fortune, and enabled him to form a party, and prejudice great numbers in his favour. But though this might be...
第 21 頁 - Performance, he was without Lodging, and often without Meat ; nor had he any other Conveniences for Study than the Fields or the Streets allowed him, there he used to walk and form his Speeches, and afterwards step into a Shop, beg for a few Moments the Use of the Pen and Ink, and write down what he had composed upon Paper which he had picked up by Accident.
第 46 頁 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
第 31 頁 - Thus had Savage perished by the evidence of a bawd, a strumpet, and his mother, had not justice and compassion procured him an advocate of rank too great to be rejected unheard, and of virtue too eminent to be heard without being believed.
第 5 頁 - ... that minds qualified for great attainments should first endeavour their own benefit; and that they, who are most able to teach others the way to happiness, should with most certainty follow it themselves. But this expectation, however plausible, has been very frequently disappointed.
第 278 頁 - Hailiers - horses and thy human hogs ; Upstarts and mushrooms, proud, relentless hearts ; Thou blank of sciences ! thou dearth of arts ! Such foes as learning once was doom'd to see ! Huns, Goths, and Vandals, were but types of thee.
第 12 頁 - Savage was at the same time so touched with the discovery of his real mother, that it was his frequent practice to walk in the dark evenings * for several hours before her door, in hopes of seeing her as she might come by accident to the window, or cross her apartment with a candle in her hand.
第 110 頁 - Savage did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous^ and genius contemptible.