Bell's Edition, Volúmenes94-95J. Bell, 1799 |
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... strophe is moving . He has not , observed the rules which some critics have established of distributing po- etical justice , for Givendolen , the most amiable cha- racter in the play , is the chief sufferer , arising from the indulgence ...
... strophe is moving . He has not , observed the rules which some critics have established of distributing po- etical justice , for Givendolen , the most amiable cha- racter in the play , is the chief sufferer , arising from the indulgence ...
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... STROPHE 1 .. WAKE the British harp again To a sad melodious strain ; Wake the harp , whose ev'ry string , When Halifax resign'd his breath , Accus'd inexorable Death ; For I once more must in affliction sing , One song of sorrow more ...
... STROPHE 1 .. WAKE the British harp again To a sad melodious strain ; Wake the harp , whose ev'ry string , When Halifax resign'd his breath , Accus'd inexorable Death ; For I once more must in affliction sing , One song of sorrow more ...
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... foreknow Those ills which man cannot remove . Vain is wisdom for preventing What the wisest live lamenting . B STROPHE II . Hither sent who knows the day Various is the term assign'd : 4 An hour , When he shall be call'd away ? 88 ODES .
... foreknow Those ills which man cannot remove . Vain is wisdom for preventing What the wisest live lamenting . B STROPHE II . Hither sent who knows the day Various is the term assign'd : 4 An hour , When he shall be call'd away ? 88 ODES .
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... STROPHE IIT . Pouring forth with heavy heart Truth unleaven❜d pure of art , Like the hallow'd bard of yore , Who chanted in authentic rhymes The worthies of the good old times , Ere living vice in verse was varnish'd o'er And Virtue dy ...
... STROPHE IIT . Pouring forth with heavy heart Truth unleaven❜d pure of art , Like the hallow'd bard of yore , Who chanted in authentic rhymes The worthies of the good old times , Ere living vice in verse was varnish'd o'er And Virtue dy ...
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... STROPHE IV . Early on his growing heir Stamp what time may not impair As he grows , that coming years Or youthful pleasures , or the vain Gigantic phantom of the brain , Ambition , breeding monstrous hopes and fears , Or worthier cares ...
... STROPHE IV . Early on his growing heir Stamp what time may not impair As he grows , that coming years Or youthful pleasures , or the vain Gigantic phantom of the brain , Ambition , breeding monstrous hopes and fears , Or worthier cares ...
Términos y frases comunes
AGRIGENTUM Albino AMBROSE PHILIPS ancient ANTISTROPHE arms beauteous beauties behold beneath birds bless breath bright brow charms cheerful climes clouds Colin Colinet coursers deep delight Dorset EPODE ev'n ev'ry fair Falernum fam'd Fleece flock flood flow'rs fond gentle give gloomy glory grace green GRONGAR HILL grove hand happy heart hence hills isle JOHN DYER labour lofty loom loud Measures 16 mind mournful Muse Myco night numbers nymph o'er Oenomaus pain Pastoral Peleus Pelops Philips pipe plains pleas'd Polynices pow'r praise proud purple realms rise rocks ruins sacred scene shade sheep shepherds shine shore Silurian sing skies skill smile soft song soul spread spring strain stream STROPHE swains sweet swell tears thee Theron Thersander thine thou thro toil tow'rs trade trees tuneful vale vallies various verse virtue wave wealth wide wind woods wool youth
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Página 110 - Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun; Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!
Página 111 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will : Search for peace with all your skill : Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor. In vain...
Página 97 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Página xi - Gives cheering cordials to the' afflicted heart; Gives to the wealthy, delicacies high; Gives to the curious, works of Nature rare; And when the priest displays, in just discourse, Him, the all-wise Creator, and declares His presence, power, and goodness unconfin'd, 'Tis Trade, attentive voyager, who fills His lips with argument.
Página 107 - GRONGAR HILL Silent Nymph, with curious eye! Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's lonely van, Beyond the noise of busy man; Painting fair the form of things, While the yellow linnet sings; Or the tuneful nightingale Charms the forest with her tale...
Página 110 - Big with the vanity of state: But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And see the rivers how they run Thro...
Página 111 - Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Página 108 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill.
Página 109 - And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps. So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Página 110 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.