The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... sea and land ; Not proffer'd worlds her ardour could restrain , And death might shake his threatening lance in vain ! Her certain conqueft would endear the fight , And danger ferve but to exalt delight . Inftructed thus to fhun the ...
... sea and land ; Not proffer'd worlds her ardour could restrain , And death might shake his threatening lance in vain ! Her certain conqueft would endear the fight , And danger ferve but to exalt delight . Inftructed thus to fhun the ...
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... sweep , Or rocks to yawn , compaffionately deep : Seas caft the monster forth to meet his doom , And rocks but prifon up for wrath to come . ܘ19 195 So So fares a traitor to an earthly crown ; While THE LAST DAY , Book I. 3.
... sweep , Or rocks to yawn , compaffionately deep : Seas caft the monster forth to meet his doom , And rocks but prifon up for wrath to come . ܘ19 195 So So fares a traitor to an earthly crown ; While THE LAST DAY , Book I. 3.
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... sea of light ! ) I fee , on an empyreal flying throne Sublimely rais'd , Heaven's everlasting SON ; Crown'd with that majefty which form'd the world , And the grand rebel flaming downward hurl'd . Virtue , dominion , praife ...
... sea of light ! ) I fee , on an empyreal flying throne Sublimely rais'd , Heaven's everlasting SON ; Crown'd with that majefty which form'd the world , And the grand rebel flaming downward hurl'd . Virtue , dominion , praife ...
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... fight the storm ! What felt thy Walpole , pilot of the realm ! Our Palinurus flept not at the helm ; M 3 * The king in danger by sea . 225 His His eye ne'er clos'd ; long fince enur'd to wake LOVE OF FAME , SAT . VII . 165.
... fight the storm ! What felt thy Walpole , pilot of the realm ! Our Palinurus flept not at the helm ; M 3 * The king in danger by sea . 225 His His eye ne'er clos'd ; long fince enur'd to wake LOVE OF FAME , SAT . VII . 165.
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Samuel Johnson. OCEAN ; ANODE . OCCASIONED BY HIS MAJESTY's ROYAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SEA SERVICE . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ODE TO THE KING ; AND A DISCOURSE ON ODE . M 4 I THINK Myfelf obliged to recommend to you a confideration.
Samuel Johnson. OCEAN ; ANODE . OCCASIONED BY HIS MAJESTY's ROYAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE SEA SERVICE . TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ODE TO THE KING ; AND A DISCOURSE ON ODE . M 4 I THINK Myfelf obliged to recommend to you a confideration.
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Página 10 - Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend ; Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend ; The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar, And break the bondage of his wonted shore ; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread ; Darkness the circle of the sun invade ; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
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Página 81 - Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing — but merit in a low estate.
Página 82 - The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. In Britain, what is many a lordly seat, But a discharge in full for an estate...
Página 96 - I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee. O THOU myself! abroad our counsels roam, And, like ill husbands, take no care at home : Thou too art wounded with the common dart, And Love of Fame lies throbbing at thy heart; And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?
Página 79 - Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went : One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear ; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their religion has been one.
Página 119 - But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word Drops from the lip of her unwary lord, Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent, Just intimates the lady's discontent.