The Works of the English Poets, Volumen8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... spread , To fudden joy , and hope , converts their dread : What lately was their public terror , they Behold with glad eyes as a certain prey : Difpofe already of th ' untaken fpoil ; And , as the purchase of their future toil , These ...
... spread , To fudden joy , and hope , converts their dread : What lately was their public terror , they Behold with glad eyes as a certain prey : Difpofe already of th ' untaken fpoil ; And , as the purchase of their future toil , These ...
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... spread his growing fame . → But how they fought , and what their valour gain'd , Shall in another Canto be contain'd . CANTO III . T The bloody fight , fuccefslefs toil , And how the fifhes fack'd the ifle . HE boat , which on the ...
... spread his growing fame . → But how they fought , and what their valour gain'd , Shall in another Canto be contain'd . CANTO III . T The bloody fight , fuccefslefs toil , And how the fifhes fack'd the ifle . HE boat , which on the ...
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... spreading fo , would flame anon : All that was meant by air or fun , To the young flower , my breath has done . If our loose breath fo much can do , What may the fame in forms of love , Of pureft love , and music too , When Flavia it ...
... spreading fo , would flame anon : All that was meant by air or fun , To the young flower , my breath has done . If our loose breath fo much can do , What may the fame in forms of love , Of pureft love , and music too , When Flavia it ...
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... Roman language ( which was spread O'er the whole world , in triumph led ) A tongue too narrow to unfold The wonders which he would have told . This speaks thy glory , noble friend ! And British This XIZ WALLER'S POEMS .
... Roman language ( which was spread O'er the whole world , in triumph led ) A tongue too narrow to unfold The wonders which he would have told . This speaks thy glory , noble friend ! And British This XIZ WALLER'S POEMS .
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... spreads the Venetian story , You make all Europe emulate her glory : You make them blush , weak Venice fhould defend The caufe of heaven , while they for words contend Shed Chriftian blood , and populous cities rafe , Because they're ...
... spreads the Venetian story , You make all Europe emulate her glory : You make them blush , weak Venice fhould defend The caufe of heaven , while they for words contend Shed Chriftian blood , and populous cities rafe , Because they're ...
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Amoret beauty blood bold bounty brave breaſt bright CANTO Chloris courage dame delight Engliſh EPITAPH eyes facred fafe fair falute fame fate fave feem fenfe fhall fhining fhip fide fight fince fing firft firſt flain flame fleep foes fome fong foul fpring friends ftand ftill fuch give glory GONDIBERT grace heart Heaven himſelf increaſe inftructed itſelf Jove juft juſt King Lady laft laſt lefs leſs light loft Lucretius Maid's Tragedy matchlefs mind mortal Mufe Muſe muſt noble nobler Numbers Nymph o'er Ovid paffion peace Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent Prince rage raiſe reft rife royal ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſpread ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſuch ſweet tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought Tranflation triumph uſe verfe verſes vex'd virtue Waller whofe whoſe winds wonder youth
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Página 190 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 115 - The ancient way of conquering abroad. Ungrateful, then ! if we no tears allow To him, that gave us peace and empire too. Princes that fear'd him grieve...
Página 115 - Of her own growth hath all that nature craves, And all that's rare, as tribute from the waves. As ./Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to...
Página 71 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Página 115 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Página 115 - To such a tempest as now threatens all, Did not your mighty arm prevent the fall.
Página 12 - I can assure the reader what would have been, had this edition been delayed. The following poems were got abroad, and in a great many hands ; it were vain to expect that, among so many admirers of Mr.
Página 94 - Such truth in love as the' antique world did know, In such a style as courts may boast of now; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Página 7 - Their poetry then was made up almost entirely of monosyllables ; which, when they come together in any cluster, are certainly the most harsh, untuneable things in the world.
Página 115 - We must resign ! heaven his great soul does claim In storms as loud as his immortal fame ; His dying groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile : About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the air ; so Romulus was lost ! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king. And from obeying fell to worshipping.