The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham, Página 127James Nichol, 1857 - 329 páginas |
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... lives of poets are not , in general , very interesting . Could we , indeed , trace the private workings of their ... lives are quite as as their poetry , and have even shed a reflex and powerful interest on their writings . The interest ...
... lives of poets are not , in general , very interesting . Could we , indeed , trace the private workings of their ... lives are quite as as their poetry , and have even shed a reflex and powerful interest on their writings . The interest ...
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... lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends . The ship at anchor , like a fixed rock , 145 150 Breaks the proud billows which her large sides knock ; Whose rage restrained , foaming higher swells , And from her port the ...
... lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends . The ship at anchor , like a fixed rock , 145 150 Breaks the proud billows which her large sides knock ; Whose rage restrained , foaming higher swells , And from her port the ...
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... live ; At once they promise what at once they give . So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncursed , To show how all things were created first ...
... live ; At once they promise what at once they give . So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncursed , To show how all things were created first ...
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... live . 31 When fate , or error , had our age misled , And o'er this nation such confusion spread , The only cure , which could from Heaven come down , Was so much power and piety in one ! 32 One ! whose extraction from an ancient line ...
... live . 31 When fate , or error , had our age misled , And o'er this nation such confusion spread , The only cure , which could from Heaven come down , Was so much power and piety in one ! 32 One ! whose extraction from an ancient line ...
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... live long enough to see them all Dark shadows cast , and as his palace tall ! Methinks I see the love that shall be made , The lovers walking in that am'rous shade ; The gallants dancing by the river side ; They bathe in summer , and in ...
... live long enough to see them all Dark shadows cast , and as his palace tall ! Methinks I see the love that shall be made , The lovers walking in that am'rous shade ; The gallants dancing by the river side ; They bathe in summer , and in ...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham Edmund Waller,Sir John Denham Vista completa - 1857 |
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Amoret Androgeus arms Atrides beauty behold bless'd blood bold bounty brave breast bright Charles CHLORIS clouds command COUNTESS OF CARLISLE Countess of Devonshire courage court crown'd dame death delight divine doth Dr Johnson earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fate fear fierce fire flame foes force friends give Gloriana glory gods grace grief hand happy haste hath heart heaven honour hope immortal Jove king LADY light live Lord Lucretius Maid's Tragedy matchless mighty mind mortal Muse noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once oppress'd passion peace Phoebus pleasure poem poetical poets praise Priam pride princes Pyrrhus Queen rage royal rude Saccharissa sacred shine sing song soul sweet sword taught tears tempest thee Theseus Thetis thine things thou thought THYRSIS trembling Troy Twas verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wise wonder wound youth
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Página 206 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 265 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Página 47 - 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.
Página 216 - What barbarous invader sack'd the land ! But when he hears no Goth, no Turk, did bring This desolation, but a Christian king ; When nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our sacrilege would spare, When such th...
Página 51 - Some other nymphs, with colours faint^ And pencil slow, may Cupid paint, And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp, and prints the boy; Can, with a single look, inflame The coldest breast, the rudest tame.
Página 209 - Horace his 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 159 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Página 160 - How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 216 - twixt anger, shame, and fear, Those for what's past, and this for what's too near, My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...