Satires, and Other PoemsG. Willis, 1838 - 168 páginas |
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Página 9 - I first adventure, with foolhardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite: I first adventure; follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Página 35 - Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head. Second, that he do on no default Ever presume to sit above the salt.
Página 159 - O blessed maid, smile, and adore The God thy womb and arms have bore ! Star, angels, shepherds, and wise sages .' Thou virgin -glory of all ages! Restored frame of heaven and earth ! Joy in your dear Redeemer's birth.
Página 7 - Lo, there th' unthankful swallow takes her rest, And fills the tunnel with her circled nest. " His satires are neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out to vague declamations on vice ; but give us the form and pressure of the times, exhibited in the faults of coeval literature, and in the foppery or sordid traits of prevailing manners. The age was undoubtedly fertile in eccentricity.
Página 99 - Beat the broad gates ; a goodly hollow sound, With double echoes, doth again rebound; But not a dog doth bark to welcome thee. Nor churlish porter canst thou chafing see. All dumb and silent, like the dead of night, Or dwelling of some sleepy Sybarite ; The marble pavement hid with desert weed. With house-leek, thistle, dock, and hemlock seed. Look to the tow'red chimnies, which should be The wind-pipes of good hospitality, Through which it breatheth to the open air, Betokening life and liberal welfare...
Página 122 - It is not for every one to relish a true and natural satire; being of itself, besides the nature and inbred bitterness and tartness of particulars, both hard of conceit and harsh of style...
Página 20 - Yea, and the prophet of the heavenly lyre, Great Solomon, sings in the English quire ; And is become a new-found sonnetist, Singing his love, the holy spouse of Christ ; 3 Like as she were some light-skirts of the rest.
Página 39 - Could no unhusked acorn leave the tree But there was challenge made whose it might be. And if some nice and licorous...
Página 29 - Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more.