Category: Poetry
WINDSOR-FOREST ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS-- Chorus of Athenians Chorus of Youths and Virgins TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO ODE ON SOLITUDE THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY PROLOGUE TO MR...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears; But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda fails?...
13. Chapter 13Again? new tumults in my breast? Ah, spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest! I am not now, alas! the man As in the gentle reign of my Queen Anne. Ah, sound no more thy soft alarms...
2. Chapter 2Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN VERSIFIED-- Satire II. Satire IV. EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: IN TWO DIALOGUES-- Dialogue I. Dialogue II.
5. Chapter 5Rules for the conduct of manners in a critic--(1.) candour, ver. 503; modesty, ver. 566; good-breeding, ver. 572; sincerity, and freedom of advice, ver. 578; (2.) when one's cou...
8. Chapter 8Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flowers, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising towers, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb'ring Ha...
12. Chapter 12I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land,...
9. Chapter 9But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survi...
6. Chapter 6What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing--This verse to Caryll,[28] Muse! is due: This, even Belinda may vouchsafe to...
7. Chapter 7Not with more glories, in the ethereal plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames....
11. Chapter 11'Tis true, my lord, I gave my word, I would be with you, June the third; Changed it to August, and (in short) Have kept it--as you do at court. You humour me when I am sick, Why...
1. Chapter 1WINDSOR-FOREST ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS-- Chorus of Athenians Chorus of Youths and Virgins TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO ODE ON...
3. Chapter 3Introduction.--That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public, ver. 1. That a true taste is as rare to be found as a true geniu...
4. Chapter 4Causes hindering a true judgment--(1.) pride, ver. 208; (2.) imperfect learning, ver. 215; (3.) judging by parts and not by the whole, ver. 233-288.--Critics in wit, language, v...