The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen23Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... story in the British tongue ; Thy charming verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'st thou ...
... story in the British tongue ; Thy charming verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'st thou ...
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... STORY OF ARISTÆUS.D.LA d . W engage , Thereal fweets shall next my Mufe And this , Mecenas , claims your patronage . } Of little creatures wondrous acts I treat , The ranks and mighty leaders of their state , Their laws , employments ...
... STORY OF ARISTÆUS.D.LA d . W engage , Thereal fweets shall next my Mufe And this , Mecenas , claims your patronage . } Of little creatures wondrous acts I treat , The ranks and mighty leaders of their state , Their laws , employments ...
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... story told in rhyme and profe . But age has rufted what the Poet writ , Worn out his language , and obfcur'd his wit : In vain he jefts in his unpolish'd strain , And tries to make his readers laugh in vain . Old Spenfer next , warm'd ...
... story told in rhyme and profe . But age has rufted what the Poet writ , Worn out his language , and obfcur'd his wit : In vain he jefts in his unpolish'd strain , And tries to make his readers laugh in vain . Old Spenfer next , warm'd ...
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... story told in rhyme and profe . But age has rufted what the Poet writ , Worn out his language , and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jefts in his unpolish'd ftrain , And tries to make his readers laugh in vain . Old Spenfer next , warm'd ...
... story told in rhyme and profe . But age has rufted what the Poet writ , Worn out his language , and obscur'd his wit : In vain he jefts in his unpolish'd ftrain , And tries to make his readers laugh in vain . Old Spenfer next , warm'd ...
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... A painted meadow , or a purling stream ; Unfit for Heroes : whom immortal lays , And lines like Virgil's , or like yours , should praise . MILTON'S MILTON's STYLE IMITATED , IN A TRANSLATION OF A STORY LETTER FROM ITALY . 45.
... A painted meadow , or a purling stream ; Unfit for Heroes : whom immortal lays , And lines like Virgil's , or like yours , should praise . MILTON'S MILTON's STYLE IMITATED , IN A TRANSLATION OF A STORY LETTER FROM ITALY . 45.
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Página 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Página 295 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 41 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Página 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Página 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Página 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Página 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.