... father's fatal day appears , His body bending through the weight of years , A fon who views him with unduteous eyes , 440 And words of comfort to his age denies , } Great Jove vindictive fees the impious train , And , equal to their ...
... د SELECT WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS , IN A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES FROM FALCONER TO SIR WALTER SCOTT . 385-2 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES . DESIGNED AS A CONTINUATION OF DR . AIKIN'S BRITISH POET S. BY JOHN FROST , A.Μ ...
... English poetry was the appearance of some one not only endowed with poetic genius and an intellect cultivated with the best scholarship of the age , but also adding ... د QUALITY OF CHAUCER'S POETRY . 93 or country , 92 LECTURE THIRD .
... father fighs From the remembrace of his dying fon ; When death has fever'd , with a long farewell , The lover from the object of defire , In the full bloom of youth , and leaves the wretch , To footh affliction in the well - known ...
... poem to the memory of Sir Ifaac Newton , prefixed to the " View of Sir Iaac Newton's P ifophy , " published in ... د But there's a youth that you can name , Who needs no leading ftrings to fame , Whofe quick maturity of brain The ...
... poet's part in the transaction met with the royal approbation ; for the old king dying , one of the first acts of the prince , on his accession , was to confirm his father's grants to him , with an additional one , as we have observed ...
Samuel Johnson. He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner * near Charing- cross , who fent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any ...
With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English Poetry Thomas Campbell. The roaring of the cannon ... د , The Mirror for Magistrates " was intended to cele- brate the chief unfortunate personages in English history ...
... د Retires in desart scenes to dwell , And bids the joyless world farewel . Alone he treads the autumnal shade , Alone beneath the mountain laid He fees the nightly damps ascend , And gathering storms aloft impend ; He hears the ...
... د UNIVERSAL PASSION ; IN SEVEN CHARACTERISTICAL SATIRES . -Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru Non minus ignotos generosis . Hor . SATIRE I. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DORSET . -Tanto major Famæ sitis est , quam Virtutis . Juv . Sat ...