The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... light animals receives ; And if the catch a common bee or fly , They with a piteous groan and murmur die ; But if a wafp or hornet she entrap , They tear her cords like Sampfon , and escape ; So like a fly the poor offender dies ; But ...
... light animals receives ; And if the catch a common bee or fly , They with a piteous groan and murmur die ; But if a wafp or hornet she entrap , They tear her cords like Sampfon , and escape ; So like a fly the poor offender dies ; But ...
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... invade , Since God and nature them our brothers made ; If his offence be great , let that fuffice ; If light , forgive , for no man's always wife . THE H 3 THE PROGRESS OF LEARNING , PRE FAC E. My early DENHAM'S 3033 POEM S.
... invade , Since God and nature them our brothers made ; If his offence be great , let that fuffice ; If light , forgive , for no man's always wife . THE H 3 THE PROGRESS OF LEARNING , PRE FAC E. My early DENHAM'S 3033 POEM S.
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... light through all the world should shine , But the obftruction from that difcord fprings The prince of darkness made ' twixt Christian kings ; That peaceful age with happiness to crown , From heaven the prince of peace himself came down ...
... light through all the world should shine , But the obftruction from that difcord fprings The prince of darkness made ' twixt Christian kings ; That peaceful age with happiness to crown , From heaven the prince of peace himself came down ...
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... light difguis'd , And into atoms truth anatomiz❜d . Then Mahomet's crefcent , by our feuds encreaft , Blafted the learn'd remainders of the east : That project , when from Greece to Rome it came , Made mother ignorance devotion's dame ...
... light difguis'd , And into atoms truth anatomiz❜d . Then Mahomet's crefcent , by our feuds encreaft , Blafted the learn'd remainders of the east : That project , when from Greece to Rome it came , Made mother ignorance devotion's dame ...
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... light of knowledge , hurl'd Sin , death , and ignorance , o'er all the world ; That fun like this ( from which our fight we have ) Gaz'd on too long , refumes the light he gave ; And when thick mifts of doubts obfcure his beams , Our ...
... light of knowledge , hurl'd Sin , death , and ignorance , o'er all the world ; That fun like this ( from which our fight we have ) Gaz'd on too long , refumes the light he gave ; And when thick mifts of doubts obfcure his beams , Our ...
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Página 57 - 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 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Página 15 - 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 14 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Página 18 - 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 293 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Página 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Página 335 - If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Página 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Página 58 - 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.