A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. BlairJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... round , And men grew heroes at the found , Enflam'd with glory's charms : Each chief his seven - fold fhield difplay'd , And half unfheath'd the fhining blade : And feas , and rocks , and skies , rebound To arms , to arms , to arms ! IV ...
... round , And men grew heroes at the found , Enflam'd with glory's charms : Each chief his seven - fold fhield difplay'd , And half unfheath'd the fhining blade : And feas , and rocks , and skies , rebound To arms , to arms , to arms ! IV ...
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... round thee fly , The light militia of the lower sky : Thefe , though unfeen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou haft in air . And view with fcorn two pages and a chair . As ...
... round thee fly , The light militia of the lower sky : Thefe , though unfeen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou haft in air . And view with fcorn two pages and a chair . As ...
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... round her throws A death - like filence , and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the scene , Shades every flower , and darkens every green , Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror on the ...
... round her throws A death - like filence , and a dread repofe ; Her gloomy prefence faddens all the scene , Shades every flower , and darkens every green , Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror on the ...
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... round . While proftrate here in humble grief I lie , Kind , virtuous drops juft gathering in my eye , While , praying , trembling , in the duft I roll , And dawning grace is opening on my foul : Come , if thou dar'it , all charming as ...
... round . While proftrate here in humble grief I lie , Kind , virtuous drops juft gathering in my eye , While , praying , trembling , in the duft I roll , And dawning grace is opening on my foul : Come , if thou dar'it , all charming as ...
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... round them rife , And airy fpe & res fkim before their eyes ; Of Falifmans and Sigils knew the power , And careful watch'd the planetary hour . Superior , and alone , Confucius ftood , Who taught that useful science to be good . But on ...
... round them rife , And airy fpe & res fkim before their eyes ; Of Falifmans and Sigils knew the power , And careful watch'd the planetary hour . Superior , and alone , Confucius ftood , Who taught that useful science to be good . But on ...
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Página 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 92 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Página 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!