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Paul Schacht commented on the post, To Mrs. Arabella Fermor, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 2 days agoThe Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope. Source: Project Gutenberg.
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Paul Schacht commented on the post, To Mrs. Arabella Fermor, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 2 days agoSource: Project Gutenberg.
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 2 days ago
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears. But Fate and Jove had stopp’d the Baron’s ears. In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda fails? Not half so fix’d the […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress’d, And secret passions labour’d in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz’d alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survive, Not ardent lovers robb’d […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
Close by those meads, for ever crown’d with flow’rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow’rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
Not with more glories, in th’ etherial plain, The Sun first rises o’er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launch’d on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fair Nymphs, and well-drest […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This, ev’n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, b […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
The Rape of the Lock An heroi-comical poem Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sed juvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. Mart, [Epigr, XII. 84.] To Mrs. Arabella Fermor Madam, It will be in […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
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Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Woman’s Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago“The Woman’s Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck,” by Mary Collier. Source: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
IMMORTAL Bard! thou Fav’rite of the Nine! Enrich’d by Peers, advanc’d by Caroline! Deign to look down on one that’s poor and low, Remembring you yourself was lately so; Accept these Lines: Alas! what can you […]
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Paul Schacht commented on the post, Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago“Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox” by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Source: The Poetry Foundation.
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
FLAVIA. THE wretched FLAVIA on her couch reclin’d, Thus breath’d the anguish of a wounded mind; A glass revers’d in her right hand she bore, For now she shun’d the face she sought before. ‘How am I chang’d! […]
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Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Thresher’s Labour, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago“The Thresher’s Labor,” by Stephen Duck. Source: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.
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Paul Schacht commented on the post, The Thresher’s Labour, on the groupblog
Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days agoSource: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive.
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 1 week, 3 days ago
To the Revd. Mr. STANLEY. THE grateful Tribute of these rural Lays, Which to her Patron’s Hand the Muse conveys, Deign to accept: ’Tis just she Tribute bring To him, whose Bounty gives her Life to s […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The author’s veracity. His design in publishing this work. His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. An objection answered. The m […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The author’s dangerous voyage. He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. The great civilities of t […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 6 days ago
The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations. The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from t […]
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Paul Schacht posted a new page, on the site Eighteenth-Century Innovations 2 weeks, 6 days ago
A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their buildings. Their manner of burials. The defectiveness of their language. One of these […]
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