The Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Volumen1W. Strahan, 1777 |
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... , inftructed in thy page , Edges his fatire , and improves his rage . Thy copy cafts a fairer light on all , And still out - fhines the bright original . Now Ovid boasts th ' advantage of thy song , 3 Now [ xlv ] O Mr Dryden, To Page.
... , inftructed in thy page , Edges his fatire , and improves his rage . Thy copy cafts a fairer light on all , And still out - fhines the bright original . Now Ovid boasts th ' advantage of thy song , 3 Now [ xlv ] O Mr Dryden, To Page.
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... bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Ætna , when in fierce érruptions broke , Fills heav'n with afhes , and the earth with smoke Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high , Here molten ftones and featter'd ...
... bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Ætna , when in fierce érruptions broke , Fills heav'n with afhes , and the earth with smoke Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high , Here molten ftones and featter'd ...
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... bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a maukish froth The firft are best- ་ From their o'erflowing combs , you'll ...
... bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits a maukish froth The firft are best- ་ From their o'erflowing combs , you'll ...
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... bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From ev'ry voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the ...
... bright Cecilia's name , their lays ; The organ labours in her praise . Cecilia's name does all our numbers grace , From ev'ry voice the tuneful accents fly , In foaring trebles now it rifes high , And now it finks , and dwells upon the ...
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... bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Mufe , a fofter ftrain rehearse , Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Mufe , tune thy verfe , with art , to Waller's ...
... bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Mufe , a fofter ftrain rehearse , Turn ev'ry line with art , and smooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Mufe , tune thy verfe , with art , to Waller's ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Aëre æther arms atque bees bleft blood breaſt bright Cadmus caft confoli corfo cou'd courſe Cyclops deſcription diftant ev'ry eyes fafe faid fame fate fatire fays feas fecond fecret feems feven fhade fhady fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fingle fire firft firſt fkies flain flood flow'ry fmiles fome fong fpring ftand ftate ftill ftones ftorms ftrains ftreams ftrength fubject fuch fword Gaul Georgic goddeſs Gulfton heav'n heav'nly Hero himſelf hive Jove labours laft laſt loft maid mighty Mufe Mufic muft Muſe muſt neighb'ring numbers nymph o'er Ovid Pentheus pleaſe pleaſure Poet praiſe rage raiſe reft rife rifu round ſcarce ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhow Sir Richard Steele ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro thunder toils tow'ring verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin Whilft whofe winds woods wou'd youth
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Página xxxvi - Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught, and led the way to Heaven...
Página 51 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 45 - That on its public shows unpeopled Rome, And held uncrowded nations in its womb : Here pillars rough with sculpture pierce the skies : And here the proud triumphal arches rise, Where the old Romans deathless acts display'd.
Página 284 - There is more pleasantness in the little platform of a garden, which he gives us about the middle of this book, than in all the spacious walks and water-works of Rapin.
Página xxxv - Oh judge, my bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart.
Página 222 - Till all the pack came up, and every hound Tore the sad huntsman, grov'ling on the ground, 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.
Página 179 - The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground : The studded harness from their necks they broke, Here fell a wheel, and here a silver spoke, Here were the beam and axle torn away ; And, scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay.
Página 98 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 195 - Coronis and the favour'd youth. The God was wroth; the colour left his look, The wreath his head, the harp his hand forsook...
Página 49 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...