The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... cause , which thus he told , With geftures humble , as his tale was bold . Oft have the Greeks ( the siege detesting ) tir'd With tedious war , a ftolen retreat defir'd , And would to heaven they'd gone : but still dismay'd By feas or ...
... cause , which thus he told , With geftures humble , as his tale was bold . Oft have the Greeks ( the siege detesting ) tir'd With tedious war , a ftolen retreat defir'd , And would to heaven they'd gone : but still dismay'd By feas or ...
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... cause confounds Thy once fair looks , or why appear those wounds ? Regardless of my words , he no reply Returns , but with a dreadful groan doth cry , Fly from the flame , O goddess - born , our walls The Greeks poffefs , and Troy ...
... cause confounds Thy once fair looks , or why appear those wounds ? Regardless of my words , he no reply Returns , but with a dreadful groan doth cry , Fly from the flame , O goddess - born , our walls The Greeks poffefs , and Troy ...
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... cause the poets fung , Thy mother from the fea was sprung , But they were mad to make thee young . Her father , not her fon , art thou : From our defires our actions grow ; And from the caufe th ' effect muft flow . Love is as old as ...
... cause the poets fung , Thy mother from the fea was sprung , But they were mad to make thee young . Her father , not her fon , art thou : From our defires our actions grow ; And from the caufe th ' effect muft flow . Love is as old as ...
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Samuel Johnson. When matches Love alone projects , The cause transcending the effects , That wild - fire's quench'd in cold neglects . Whilft those conjunctions prove the best , Where Love's of blindness difpoffeft , By perspectives of ...
Samuel Johnson. When matches Love alone projects , The cause transcending the effects , That wild - fire's quench'd in cold neglects . Whilft those conjunctions prove the best , Where Love's of blindness difpoffeft , By perspectives of ...
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... invite them hither ? Though more our money than our cause Their brotherly affiftance draws , My labour was not loft , At thence At my return I brought you Neceffity , their 58 DENHA M'S POEMS . A Speech against Peace at the Clofe Committee.
... invite them hither ? Though more our money than our cause Their brotherly affiftance draws , My labour was not loft , At thence At my return I brought you Neceffity , their 58 DENHA M'S POEMS . A Speech against Peace at the Clofe Committee.
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Página 57 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Página 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Página 15 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Página 14 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Página 18 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Página 293 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Página 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Página 335 - If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Página 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Página 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.