The Ghost: Book III (excerpt) (Charles Churchill Poems)
...Horrid, unwieldly, without form,Savage, as ocean in a storm,Of size prodigious, in the rear,That post of honour, should appearPomposo; fame ...
...Horrid, unwieldly, without form,Savage, as ocean in a storm,Of size prodigious, in the rear,That post of honour, should appearPomposo; fame ...
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globeDarkness had spread her pitchy robe:Morpheus, his feet with velvet shod,Treading as if ...
Deep in the bosom of a wood,Out of the road, a Temple stood:Ancient, and much the worse for wear,It call'd ...
Some of my friends (for friends I must suppose All, who, not daring to appear my foes, Feign great ...
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