The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... legions urg'd their flight , And gain'd a cave profound and wide as night . O'er cheerlefs fcenes by Defolation own'd , High on an Alp of ice he fits enthron'd ! 45 One ' One clay - cold hand , his cryftal beard SAVAGE'S POEMS .
... legions urg'd their flight , And gain'd a cave profound and wide as night . O'er cheerlefs fcenes by Defolation own'd , High on an Alp of ice he fits enthron'd ! 45 One ' One clay - cold hand , his cryftal beard SAVAGE'S POEMS .
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. ' One clay - cold hand , his cryftal beard fuftains , And scepter'd one , o'er wind and tempeft reigns ; 50 ' O'er ftony magazines of hail , that storm The bloffom'd fruit , and ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. ' One clay - cold hand , his cryftal beard fuftains , And scepter'd one , o'er wind and tempeft reigns ; 50 ' O'er ftony magazines of hail , that storm The bloffom'd fruit , and ...
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... hand her bofom fmites ; in one appears The lifted lawn , that drinks her falling tears . Since evil outweighs good , and fways mankind , True fortitude affumes the patient mind : 20 25 39- Such prov'd Meffiah's , though to fuffering ...
... hand her bofom fmites ; in one appears The lifted lawn , that drinks her falling tears . Since evil outweighs good , and fways mankind , True fortitude affumes the patient mind : 20 25 39- Such prov'd Meffiah's , though to fuffering ...
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... hands , that clasp a burning heart . A pendent veil two hovering feraphs raise , Which opening heaven upon the roof difplays ! And two , benevolent , lefs - diftant , hold A vafe , collective of perfumes uproll'd ! Thefe from the heart ...
... hands , that clasp a burning heart . A pendent veil two hovering feraphs raise , Which opening heaven upon the roof difplays ! And two , benevolent , lefs - diftant , hold A vafe , collective of perfumes uproll'd ! Thefe from the heart ...
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... hands , One fhows her breaft , in rapture one expands ! This the fond hermit seiz'd ! -o'er all his foul , The foft , wild , wailing , amorous paffion stole ! In ftedfaft gaze his eyes her aspect keep , Then turn away , a while dejected ...
... hands , One fhows her breaft , in rapture one expands ! This the fond hermit seiz'd ! -o'er all his foul , The foft , wild , wailing , amorous paffion stole ! In ftedfaft gaze his eyes her aspect keep , Then turn away , a while dejected ...
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Página 68 - Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late; Young and unthoughtful then, who knows one day What ripening virtues might have made their way!
Página 68 - He might have fav'd fome worth, now doom'd to fall ; And I, perchance, in him, have murder'd all. O fate of late Repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where...
Página 82 - Two Fathers join'd to rob my Claim of one ! My Mother too thought fit to have no Son ! The Senate next...
Página 29 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Página 66 - tis to you My thanks for such distinguish'd claims are due ; You, unenslav'd to Nature's narrow laws, Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause, From all the dry devoirs of blood and line, . From ties maternal, moral and divine, Discharg'd my grasping soul ; push'd me from shore, And launch'd me into life without an oar.
Página 70 - Her fmile more cheerful than a vernal morn, All life ! all bloom ! of Youth and Fancy born. Touch'd into joy, what hearts to her fubmit ! She looks her Sire, and fpeaks her Mother's wit. O'er the gay world the fweet infpirer reigns . Spleen flies, and Elegance her pomp fuftains.
Página 39 - Whence, beam'd from sapphires, living azure plays; The liquid floor, in-wrought with pearls divine, Where all his labours in...
Página 172 - Boast petty courts, whence rules new rigour draw, Unknown to Nature's and to statute-law ; Quirks that explain all saving rights away, To give th' attorney and the catchpoll prey.
Página 6 - Induftry is all with Beauty crown'd ! He, He alone, explores the Mine for Gain, Hues the hard Rock, or harrows up the Plain ; He forms the Sword to...
Página 56 - He deem'd it godlike to have power to blefs : Thus, when unguarded, treafon ftain'd him o'er; And virtue and content were then no more. But when to death by rigorous...