The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen50Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... live , when every fire And every star shall languish and expire ? When earth's no more , fhall I furvive above , And through the radiant files of angels move ? Or , as before the throne of God I stand , See new worlds rolling from His ...
... live , when every fire And every star shall languish and expire ? When earth's no more , fhall I furvive above , And through the radiant files of angels move ? Or , as before the throne of God I stand , See new worlds rolling from His ...
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... on the left , of all whom thou haft known ; How would it wound ? What millions wouldst thou give For One more trial , One more day to live ? Ꭰ VOL . I. Flung Flung back in time an hour , a moment's space THE LAST DAY , BOOK III . 33.
... on the left , of all whom thou haft known ; How would it wound ? What millions wouldst thou give For One more trial , One more day to live ? Ꭰ VOL . I. Flung Flung back in time an hour , a moment's space THE LAST DAY , BOOK III . 33.
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... lives away , " When torment is grown weary of its prey , “ When I have rav'd ten thousand years in fire , " Ten thousand thousand , let me then expire . ” Deep anguish ! but too late ; the hopeless foul Bound to the bottom of the ...
... lives away , " When torment is grown weary of its prey , “ When I have rav'd ten thousand years in fire , " Ten thousand thousand , let me then expire . ” Deep anguish ! but too late ; the hopeless foul Bound to the bottom of the ...
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... " That drank most blood , funk deepest in my heart ? " I cannot live without you ; and my doom " I meet with joy , to fhare one common tomb.- " And " And are again your tears profufely spilt ! " FORCE OF RELIGION , Book II . 59.
... " That drank most blood , funk deepest in my heart ? " I cannot live without you ; and my doom " I meet with joy , to fhare one common tomb.- " And " And are again your tears profufely spilt ! " FORCE OF RELIGION , Book II . 59.
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... lives , much dearer than my own to heaven , " If fo the Queen decrees * : - But I have caufe " To hope my blood will fatisfy the laws ; " And there is mercy ftill , for you , in store : " With me the bitterness of death is o'er . * Here ...
... lives , much dearer than my own to heaven , " If fo the Queen decrees * : - But I have caufe " To hope my blood will fatisfy the laws ; " And there is mercy ftill , for you , in store : " With me the bitterness of death is o'er . * Here ...
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The Works of the English Poets, Volúmenes1-2 Samuel Johnson,Charles Bathurst (Londres) Vista completa - 1779 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 210 - Tis dreadful to behold his nostrils blaze ; To paw the vale he proudly takes delight, And triumphs in the fulness of his might ; High rais'd he snuffs the battle from afar, And burns to plunge amid the raging war ; And mocks at death, and throws his foam around, And in a storm of fury shakes the ground.
Página 223 - Rome swift thunder flew, And headlong from his throne the tyrant threw : Thrown headlong down, by Rome in triumph led, For this night's deed his perjur'd bosom bled : His brother's ghost each moment made him start, And all his father's anguish rent his heart.
Página 86 - Is there a man of an eternal vein, "Who lulls the town in winter with his strain, At Bath, in summer, chants the reigning...
Página 110 - Such shining expletives of human kind, Who want, while through blank life they dream along, Sense to be right and passion to be wrong.
Página 210 - But, fiercer still, the lordly lion stalks, Grimly majestic in his lonely walks ; When round he glares, all living creatures fly; He clears the desert with his rolling eye.
Página 139 - tis on plenty your poor lovers starve. But with a modern fair, meridian merit Is a fierce thing they call a nymph of spirit. Mark well the rollings of her flaming eye, And tread on tiptoe if you dare draw nigh: 50 "Or if you take a lion by the beard, Or dare defy the fell Hyrcanian pard, Or arm'd rhinoceros, or rough Russian bear," First make your will, and then converse with her.
Página 221 - Views the pale cheek and the distorted mien ; He drains off life by drops, and, deaf to cries, Examines every spirit as it flies : He studies torment, dives in mortal woe, To rouse up every pang repeats his blow ; Each rising agony, each dreadful grace, Yet warm transplanting to his Saviour's face.
Página 89 - But found at length that it reduc'd his rent ; His farms were flown ; when, lo ! a sale comes on, A choice collection ! what is to be done ? He sells his last ; for he the whole will buy ; Sells...
Página 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Página 169 - The naval crown Is all his own ! Our fleet, if War or Commerce call, His will performs Through waves and storms, And rides in triumph round the ball.