The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces Biographical and CriticalJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... verfe , and fair tranflations , fhow How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himfelf , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor ...
... verfe , and fair tranflations , fhow How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himfelf , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor ...
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... verfe ; Long had Achilles quell'd the Trojans ' luft , And laid the labour of the gods in duft , Before the towering Mufe began her flight , And drew the hero raging in the fight , Engag'd in tented fields and rolling floods , Or ...
... verfe ; Long had Achilles quell'd the Trojans ' luft , And laid the labour of the gods in duft , Before the towering Mufe began her flight , And drew the hero raging in the fight , Engag'd in tented fields and rolling floods , Or ...
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... verfe ; High on the deck should the great leader stand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But But who can run the British ...
... verfe ; High on the deck should the great leader stand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But But who can run the British ...
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... verfe with blame ; Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe but thine can equal hints infpire , And fit the deep - mouth'd Pindar to thy lyre : Pindar , whom others in a labour'd ...
... verfe with blame ; Thy fault is only wit in its excefs : But wit like thine in any fhape will please . What Mufe but thine can equal hints infpire , And fit the deep - mouth'd Pindar to thy lyre : Pindar , whom others in a labour'd ...
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... verfe , harmonious bard , and flattering fong , Can make the vanquish'd great , the coward ftrong . Thy verfe can fhow ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the storm that bore him hence . Oh had thy Mufe not come an age too foon ...
... verfe , harmonious bard , and flattering fong , Can make the vanquish'd great , the coward ftrong . Thy verfe can fhow ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the storm that bore him hence . Oh had thy Mufe not come an age too foon ...
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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.