 ... 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...liveries. Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines : Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling...life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the muse, he gives her prescience, or, in poetical language, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next line* : 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 prescience, or, in poetical language, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines : Mount, glorious queen, tby travelling throne, And bid it to put on ; For long,...life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the muse, he gives her prescience, or, in poetical language, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...liveries. Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines : Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And bid it to pnt OB ; For long though cheerful is the way, And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines: Mouot, glorious queen, tby travellinp throne, And Did it to put on : For long though cheerful is the way, And life, alas ! allows but pne ill winter's day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the Muse, he gives her prescience,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1827 - 548 pages
...well-worded dress. And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries. Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And...And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day." We now come to his heroic poem, The Davideis, a fragment, which we feel no regret that he did not finish.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...Make a long row of goodly pride. Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress. Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And...And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day." We now come to his heroic poem, The Davideis, a fragment, which we feel no regret that he did not finish.... | |
 | 1827 - 550 pages
...Make a long row of goodly pride. Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress. Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling throne, And...And life, alas ! allows but one ill winter's day." We now come to his heroic poem, The Davideis, a fragment, which' we feel no regret that he did not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...gaudy firm». Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself the four next lines. Mount, glorious queen, thy travelling...cheerful is the way, And life, alas .' allows but one ill winter'» day. In the same ode, celebrating the power of the muse, he gives her prescience, or, in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...liveries. Every mind is now disgusted with this cumber of magnificence ; yet I cannot refuse myself f(? Έz - same ode, celebrating the power of the muse, he gives her prescience, or, in poetical language, the... | |
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