 ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.  Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets - Page 113by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pages
...gawdy Lireries. Mount, glorious Queen ! thy traveling Throne, And bid put on ; For long, tho' chearful is the Way, And Life, alas ! allows but one ill Winter's Day; Where never Foot of Man, nor Hoof of Beaft The Paflage prefs'd ; Where never Fifh did fly, And with... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 658 pages
...ufeMount, glorious Queen ! thy travelling thfone, 16 And bid it to put on, for long, tho' eheerful, is the way, And life, alas! allows but one ill winter's day. It. Where never foot of man or hoof of beaft 1O The paffage prefs'd, Where never filh did fly, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 pages
...Mount, glorious Queen l thy travelling throne, . And bid it to put on ; For long, though chearful, is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or hoof of beaft, The pafiage prefs'd ; Where never fifh did fly, And with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...their gaudy liveries. Every mind is now dUgufted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refufe myfelf the four next lines : Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And bid it to put on j For long though cheerful is the way, And life alas allows but one ill winter's day. In the fame ode,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...gaudy liveries. Every mind is now difgufted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refufe myfelf the four next lines : Mount, glorious queen,...day. In the fame ode, celebrating the power of the Mofe, . he gives her prefcience, or, in poetieal language, the forefight of events hatching in futurity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...gaudy livtrits. Every mind is now difgufted with this currVbdf of magnificence ; yet I cannot refufe myfelf the four next lines: Mount, glorious queen,...travelling throne, And bid it to put on ; For long though cheariul is the way, And life, alas! allows but one ill winter's day. In the fame ode, celebrating... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...well-worded drtfs; And innocent Loves, and plcafant Truths, and ufeIn all K- i ; iu.4y liveries; [ful Lies. Mount, glorious Queen ! thy travelling throne, And...And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. n. Where never foot of man or hoof of beaft The paflage prefs'd, I Where never fijh did fly, And with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...distinguished with this cumber of magnificence ; yet j cannot refuse myself the four next lines : Mo«nt Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And...life alas allows but one ill winter's day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the Muse, he gives her pr<r«ci""ic?, r-, in poetical language,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...well-worded drefs ; And innocent I.oves, and pleafant Truths, and ufeful Lyes, In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious Queen ! thy travelling throne, And...And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. Where never foot of man, or hoof of beaft, The paffage prcfc'.d ; Where never fifh did fly, And with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...liveries. VOL. IX. E Every mind is now difgufted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refufe myfelf the four> next lines : Mount, glorious queen,...travelling throne, And bid it to put on ; For long though chearful is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. In the fame ode, celebrating... | |
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