 Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens,...  Latin Classics ... - Page 206by William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1764 - 198 pages
...-feigns ; Inrage, eompofe, with more than nugic art, With pity and with terror tear my heart; And fnatch me o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. This is a noble defcription of the true poet } but no man whofe talents border * Bee. rather rather... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...Inrage, compofe, with more than magic Art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; 345 And fnatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. P But not this part of the Poetic ftate Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : Think Cum ftetitin... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...Inrage, compofe, with more than magic Art ; With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; 345 And fnatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. T But not this part of the Poetic ftate Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : Think Cum ftetit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 pages
...a Poet's cloak, fa recovered its fcnfes in Hughes and Fenton, who We're afraid it Ihould And {hatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. f But not this part of the Poetic ftate, Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : Think of thofe Authors,... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - 1801 - 544 pages
...with more than magic art, With pity and with tenor tear my heart, And fnatch me o'er the earth, and through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. , 9 ACCORDING to Horace, Shakefpeare may be called a great tragic rope-dancer, and the public were... | |
 | George Neville Ussher - 1803 - 102 pages
...Enrage, compofe, with more than magic art, ' With pity and with terror tear my heart ; ' And fnatch me o'er the earth or through the air, 'To Thebes, to Athens, when he will and where.' 8. ' SoZembla's rocks, the beauteous work of froft, ' Rife white in air, and glitter o'er the coaft... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...it languifhed. We have not mounted again above the two laft."— Walpole's Obfervatiuus. And fnatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. p But not this part of the Poetic ftate, Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : Think of thofe Authors,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...it lariguimed. We have not mounted again above the two laft."— Walpole's Obfervations. And fnatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. p But not this part of the Poetic ftate, Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : . Think of thofe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...languifhed. We have not mounted again above the two lafl." — Walpolt's Obfci vations. And fnatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. f But not this part of the Poetic ftate, Alone, deferves the favour of the Great : Think of thofe Authors,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...feigns ; Enrage, compose-, with more than magic art; With pity, and with terror, teat my heart ; 34' And snatch me o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and Vihtrc. But not this part of the poetic state Alone deserves the favor of the great. Think of these... | |
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