The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen56Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... pride undone ; Who to his mortal guests convey'd Th ' incorruptible food of Gods , On which in their divine abodes Himself erft feafting was immortal made . STRO STROPHE V. Vain is he , who hopes to cheat OLYMPICK ODES . ODE I. 139.
... pride undone ; Who to his mortal guests convey'd Th ' incorruptible food of Gods , On which in their divine abodes Himself erft feafting was immortal made . STRO STROPHE V. Vain is he , who hopes to cheat OLYMPICK ODES . ODE I. 139.
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... erft unequal'd and alone , And madeft through the world thy greatness known : While from the western ifles , to Indus ' fhore , From feven - mouth'd Nilus , to the frozen Don , Thy dradded bolts the ftrong - pounc'd eagle bore , And ...
... erft unequal'd and alone , And madeft through the world thy greatness known : While from the western ifles , to Indus ' fhore , From feven - mouth'd Nilus , to the frozen Don , Thy dradded bolts the ftrong - pounc'd eagle bore , And ...
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... erft dy'd . And do you then with vile mechanic thought Your courfe , ye fons of Fairy , hither guide , That ye thofe gay refinements may be taught , Which liberty's fair lond to fhame and thraldom brought ? LVII . Let Rome thofe vaffal ...
... erft dy'd . And do you then with vile mechanic thought Your courfe , ye fons of Fairy , hither guide , That ye thofe gay refinements may be taught , Which liberty's fair lond to fhame and thraldom brought ? LVII . Let Rome thofe vaffal ...
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... erft in public , ' mid his wide domain , Long in primæval patriarchal state , The lord , the judge , the father of the plain , He dwelt ; and with him , in the golden chain Of wedded faith y - link'd , a matron fage Aye dwelt ; fweet ...
... erft in public , ' mid his wide domain , Long in primæval patriarchal state , The lord , the judge , the father of the plain , He dwelt ; and with him , in the golden chain Of wedded faith y - link'd , a matron fage Aye dwelt ; fweet ...
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... erft were deem'd to lie ; If haply the fair vagrants he § mote spy , Or hear the mufic of their charming lore : But all unable there to fatisfy His curious foul , he turn'd him to explore The facred writ of Faith ; to learn , believe ...
... erft were deem'd to lie ; If haply the fair vagrants he § mote spy , Or hear the mufic of their charming lore : But all unable there to fatisfy His curious foul , he turn'd him to explore The facred writ of Faith ; to learn , believe ...
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Página 331 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 332 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 331 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Página 329 - Tis folly to be wise. 287 HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
Página 346 - The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!
Página 70 - Though meek, magnanimous, though witty, wise; Polite, as all her life in courts had been, Yet good, as she the world had never seen; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentlest female tenderness combin'd.
Página 340 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that...
Página 345 - And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre. ' Hark, how each giant-oak, and desert cave, Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath ! O'er thee, oh King ! their hundred arms they wave.
Página 62 - Lucy's grave, Perform the duties that you doubly owe! Now she, alas! is gone, From folly and from vice their helpless age to save...
Página 333 - Or heap the fhrine of Luxury and Pride With incenfe kindled at the Mufe's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, Their fober wifhes never learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool fequefter'd vale of life They kept the noifelefs tenor of their way.