Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...

John Bell

J. Bell, 1781

Vsebina

• Preface to The Frumentary: 5
• Mully of Mountown: 15
• Britains Palladium 35: 35
• Preface to The Eagle and the Robin 44: 44
• Robin Redbreaft with the Beafts 55: 55
• Bibliotheca 61: 61
• The Laft Billet 118: 118
• The Fiſherman 125: 125
• The Monarch 134: 134
• Upon a Giants angling 142: 142
• Ulyffes and Tirefias 150: 150
• Nero a Satire 152: 152
• To the late Earl of 158: 158
• Song You fay you love c 170: 170
• The Stumblingblock from Rufinus 185: 185

Priljubljeni odlomki

Stran 143 - Thoufands of happy hours you pafs'd with me ; " No mention made of old Penelope. " On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, " But write our benefits upon the wave. " Why then be gone, the feas uncertain truft ; " As I found you, fo may you find them juft. " Dying Calypfo muft be left behind, " And all your vows be wafted with the wind !" Fond are the hopes he fhould be conftant now, Who to his tendereft part had broke his vow.

Stran 136 - To make your wife and mine a muff.) Thus he frames wings, and nothing lacks To fix the whole, but melted wax : That was the work of the young boy, Pleas'd at the fancy of the toy; Not guessing, ere he was much older, He should have one upon each shoulder.

Stran 81 - L were a Picture drawn With Cynthia's Face, but with a Neck like Brawn; With Wings of Turkey, and with Feet of Calf, Tho' drawn by Kneller, it would make you laugh!

Stran 44 - Cincinnatus, who went from the plough to the command of the Roman army ; and, having brought home victory, retired to his cottage ; for, when the Samnite...

Stran 8 - Which faid, he foon outftript the wind, Whilft puffing Boreas lagg'd behind ; And to Urganda's cave he came, A lady of prodigious fame, Whofe hollow eyes and hopper breech...

Stran 112 - THE BEGGAR WOMAN. A GENTLEMAN in hunting rode aftray, •**• More out of choice, than that he loft his way, He let his company the Hare purfue, For he himfelf had other game in view. A Beggar by her trade ; yet not fo mean, But that her cheeks were frefh, and linen clean. J' Miftrefs," quoth he, " and what if we two fhou'd * Retire a little way into the wood...

Stran 43 - I hope it will not be taken ill by the wits, that 1 call my cooks by the title of ingenious; for I cannot imagine why cooks may not be as well read as any other persons.

Stran 84 - The fate of things lies always in the dark : What cavalier would know St. James's Park '? For locket stands «;i icrc gardens once did spring ; And wild-ducks quack where grasshoppers did sing ; A princely palace on that space does rise, Where Sedley's noble muse found mulberries'.

Stran 159 - And have you by a rival croft, Only in hopes you may n't be loft. Sometimes they fay that you are faulty, And that they know where...

Stran 54 - The Art of Cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, with some Letters to Dr. Lister...

Bibliografski podatki

• Naslov: Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...; Količine 45–46 od Bell's Edition, John Hamilton Mortimer; Količine 45–46 od Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer
• Avtor: John Bell
• Ilustracije: Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer
• Založnik: J. Bell, 1781
• Vir izvirnika: Univerza v Michiganu
• Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis: 1 mar 2006