The Works of the English Poets: Denham and YaldenSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our facrilege would spare , When fuch th ' effects of our devotions are Parting from thence ' twixt anger , fhame , and fear , Thofe for what's paft , and this for what's too near ...
... actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our facrilege would spare , When fuch th ' effects of our devotions are Parting from thence ' twixt anger , fhame , and fear , Thofe for what's paft , and this for what's too near ...
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... actions took original , Till Diomed ( for fuch attempts made fit By dire conjunction with Ulyffes ' wit ) Affails the facred tower , the guards they slay , Defile with bloody hands , and thence convey The fatal image ; straight with our ...
... actions took original , Till Diomed ( for fuch attempts made fit By dire conjunction with Ulyffes ' wit ) Affails the facred tower , the guards they slay , Defile with bloody hands , and thence convey The fatal image ; straight with our ...
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... action all the reft might crown . On my Lord CROFT'S and my Journey into Poland , from whence we brought 10,000l . for his Majefty , by the Decimation of his Scottish Subjects there . TOLE , tole , Gentle bell , for the foul Of the pure ...
... action all the reft might crown . On my Lord CROFT'S and my Journey into Poland , from whence we brought 10,000l . for his Majefty , by the Decimation of his Scottish Subjects there . TOLE , tole , Gentle bell , for the foul Of the pure ...
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... actions grow ; And from the caufe th ' effect muft flow . Love is as old as place or time ; ' Twas he the fatal tree did climb , Grandfire of father Adam's crime . Well may'st thou keep this world in awe ; Religion , wifdom , honour ...
... actions grow ; And from the caufe th ' effect muft flow . Love is as old as place or time ; ' Twas he the fatal tree did climb , Grandfire of father Adam's crime . Well may'st thou keep this world in awe ; Religion , wifdom , honour ...
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... actions not by reafon fway , But their brute appetites obey . But man's that favage beast , whofe mind From reason to felf - love declin'd , Delights to prey upon his kind . On Mr. ABRAHAM COWLEY'S Death , and Burial amongst the ancient ...
... actions not by reafon fway , But their brute appetites obey . But man's that favage beast , whofe mind From reason to felf - love declin'd , Delights to prey upon his kind . On Mr. ABRAHAM COWLEY'S Death , and Burial amongst the ancient ...
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Página 13 - 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 55 - 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.
Página 12 - But to be restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure But to be cast into a calenture ; Can knowledge have no bound, but...
Página 13 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and...
Página 55 - 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 16 - 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 11 - A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Página 18 - Though prodigal of life, disdains to die By common hands; but, if he can descry Some nobler foe approach, to him he calls, And begs his fate, and then contented falls. So when the king a mortal shaft lets fly...
Página 49 - Prithee die and set me free, Or else be Kind and brisk, and gay like me; I pretend not to the wise ones, To the grave, to the grave, Or the precise ones. Tis not Cheeks, nor Lips nor Eyes, That I prize, Quick Conceits, or sharp Replies, If wise thou wilt appear, and knowing, Repartie, Repartie To what I'm doing. Prithee why the Room so dark? Not a Spark Left to light me to the mark ; I love day-light and a candle, And to see, and to see, As well as handle.
Página 11 - Th' adjoining abbey fell. (May no such storm Fall on our times, where ruin must reform!) Tell me, my Muse! what monstrous dire offence, What crime could any Christian king incense To such a rage ? Was't luxury or lust ? Was he so temperate, so chaste, so just ? Were these their crimes! they were his own much more; But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor...