The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces Biographical and CriticalJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy fong : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd in streams ; Of thofe rich fruits that on the fertile mold Turn'd yellow by ...
... still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy fong : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd in streams ; Of thofe rich fruits that on the fertile mold Turn'd yellow by ...
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... Still they remember that deftructive rage Which lately made their trembling hoft retire , Stunn'd with the noife , and wrapt in fmoke and fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , And planks , and arms , and men ...
... Still they remember that deftructive rage Which lately made their trembling hoft retire , Stunn'd with the noife , and wrapt in fmoke and fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , And planks , and arms , and men ...
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... still in fight . Oh , did our British peers thus court renown , And grace the coats their great fore - fathers won ! Our arms would then triumphantly advance , Nor Henry be the last that conquer'd France . What might not England hope ...
... still in fight . Oh , did our British peers thus court renown , And grace the coats their great fore - fathers won ! Our arms would then triumphantly advance , Nor Henry be the last that conquer'd France . What might not England hope ...
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... still , the stones admire ; The liftening favages advance , The wolf and lamb around him trip , The bears in aukward measures leap , And tigers mingle in the dance . The moving woods attended as he play'd , And Rhodope was left without ...
... still , the stones admire ; The liftening favages advance , The wolf and lamb around him trip , The bears in aukward measures leap , And tigers mingle in the dance . The moving woods attended as he play'd , And Rhodope was left without ...
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... still preserve thy fame alive , And Dryden's Mufe fhall in his friend furvive . I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But juftice ftill demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnain'd , For wit , for humour ...
... still preserve thy fame alive , And Dryden's Mufe fhall in his friend furvive . I'm tir'd with rhyming , and would fain give o'er , But juftice ftill demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnain'd , For wit , for humour ...
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Página 326 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.\ Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Página 221 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 325 - 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 98 - Not the rough whirlwind that deforms Adria's black gulf and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Página 333 - Lucius, art thou here ? — thou art too good ! — Let this our friendship live between our children; Make Portius .happy in thy daughter Lucia. Alas! poor man, he weeps! — Marcia, my daughter — — O bend me forward ! — Juba loves thee, Marcia.
Página 270 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him.
Página 200 - This is wonderfully diverting to the understanding: thus to receive a precept that enters, as it were, through a by-way, and to apprehend an idea that draws a whole train after it.
Página 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Página 247 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. Already...
Página 151 - Who now appear'd but one continued wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.