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... heart , The birds in unfrequented shades express , Who , better taught at home , yet please us less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excells . Singing no more can your soft numbers ...
... heart , The birds in unfrequented shades express , Who , better taught at home , yet please us less ; So in your verse a native sweetness dwells , Which shames composure , * and its art excells . Singing no more can your soft numbers ...
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... heart , but your fearless and invincible one , would have been wholly filled with apprehensions of danger . For as I have had the honour to hear from that oracle of truth and wisdom , your majesty's own mouth , you were pleased to visit ...
... heart , but your fearless and invincible one , would have been wholly filled with apprehensions of danger . For as I have had the honour to hear from that oracle of truth and wisdom , your majesty's own mouth , you were pleased to visit ...
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... heart . Always you warm ; and if the rising year , As in hot regions , brings the sun too near , ' Tis but to make your fragrant spices blow , Which in our cooler climates will not grow . They only think you animate your theme With too ...
... heart . Always you warm ; and if the rising year , As in hot regions , brings the sun too near , ' Tis but to make your fragrant spices blow , Which in our cooler climates will not grow . They only think you animate your theme With too ...
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... various parts ; Discord , that makes the harmony of hearts ; Discord , that only this dispute shall bring , Who best shall love the duke , and serve the king . } EPISTLE THE EIGHTH . TO MY FRIEND , MR J. 34 EPISTLES .
... various parts ; Discord , that makes the harmony of hearts ; Discord , that only this dispute shall bring , Who best shall love the duke , and serve the king . } EPISTLE THE EIGHTH . TO MY FRIEND , MR J. 34 EPISTLES .
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... hearts , to monarchs ' vows denied , And softened to distress unconquered pride : O ! then protect , in his declining years , The man , that filled your mother's eyes with tears ! The last of Charles's bards ! The living name , That ...
... hearts , to monarchs ' vows denied , And softened to distress unconquered pride : O ! then protect , in his declining years , The man , that filled your mother's eyes with tears ! The last of Charles's bards ! The living name , That ...
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ANNE KILLIGREW Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood Boccacio breast called Canterbury Tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer coursers crowned Cymon dame daughter death divine dream Dryden Duchess of Ormond Emily EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate father favour fear fight fire fortune gave grace grief Guiscard hand happy hast heart heaven honour kind king knew knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady laurel light live look lord Lysimachus maid mind mortal mourning muse never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon panegyric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince pursue queen race rest seems shewed sighed sight Sir George Etherege Sir Robert Howard song soul stood sung sweet tale Tancred tears Thebes thee Theseus thine thing thou thought took translated Twas verses Virgil virtue vows wife Wife of Bath words youth
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Página 183 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Página 160 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 186 - Revolving in his altered soul The various turns of Chance below ; And, now and then, a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Página 169 - Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs and desperation, Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains and height of passion For the fair disdainful dame.
Página 316 - But whither went his soul, let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state : Divines can say but what themselves believe ; Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative ; For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, And faith itself be lost in certainty. To live uprightly, then, is sure the best ; To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.
Página 170 - To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Página 62 - Thou shalt be seen (Though with some short parenthesis between) High on the throne of wit; and seated there, Not mine (that's little) but thy laurel wear. Thy first attempt an early promise made; That early promise this has more than paid. So bold, yet so judiciously you dare, That your least praise is to be regular. Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Página 190 - CREATOR spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come visit every pious mind ; Come pour thy joys on human kind ; From sin and sorrow set us free, And make thy temples worthy thee.
Página 185 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain...
Página 191 - Chase from our minds the infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow ; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe : Give us thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by thee. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the...