The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... foes , that chas'd her through the plaine , And still pursu'd , but still pursu'd in vaine . Like as the wearie hounds at last retire , Windlesse , displeased , from the fruitlesse chace , When the slie beast tapisht in bush and brire ...
... foes , that chas'd her through the plaine , And still pursu'd , but still pursu'd in vaine . Like as the wearie hounds at last retire , Windlesse , displeased , from the fruitlesse chace , When the slie beast tapisht in bush and brire ...
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... foe , the sea . That noble ardour , more than mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raise her waves above The ' heroic Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , The ...
... foe , the sea . That noble ardour , more than mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raise her waves above The ' heroic Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , The ...
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... foes profess'd to all the world beside ; This pest of mankind gives our hero fame , And through the ' obliged world dilates his name . The Prophet once to cruel Agag said , As thy fierce sword has mothers childless made , So shall the ...
... foes profess'd to all the world beside ; This pest of mankind gives our hero fame , And through the ' obliged world dilates his name . The Prophet once to cruel Agag said , As thy fierce sword has mothers childless made , So shall the ...
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... ? Not the just Pallas in thy breast did move So blind a rage , with such a different fate ; He honour won where thou hast purchased hate . 2 Solomon . She gave assistance to his Trojan foe ; Thou , MISCELLANIES . 69 89.
... ? Not the just Pallas in thy breast did move So blind a rage , with such a different fate ; He honour won where thou hast purchased hate . 2 Solomon . She gave assistance to his Trojan foe ; Thou , MISCELLANIES . 69 89.
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... foes , and won the doubtful field ? So shall thy rebel wit become her prize . Should thy Iambics swell into a book ... foe , And neither aids thy fancy nor thy sight , So ill thou rhym'st against so fair a light . OF HER CHAMBER . THEY ...
... foes , and won the doubtful field ? So shall thy rebel wit become her prize . Should thy Iambics swell into a book ... foe , And neither aids thy fancy nor thy sight , So ill thou rhym'st against so fair a light . OF HER CHAMBER . THEY ...
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admire amazed Amoret appear arms beauty bless'd blood bold born boughs bounty brave breast bright CANTO Chloris Clarendon clouds command commission of array COUNTESS OF CARLISLE courage court Cromwell crown'd dame death delight divine doth Earl of Portland earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fancy fate favour fear fierce fire flame foes friends give Gloriana glory grace grow hand happy heart Heaven honour hope Jove King LADY Laomedon light live Lord Lord Conway Lucretius mind mortal Muse never noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once Orpheus Panegyric Parliament passion peace Phoebus poem poet poetry praise princes Queen rage reign royal rude Sacharissa sacred shine ship sing smile song soul sweet sword taught tempest thee Theseus Thetis things thou thought tree tremble triumph Twas Venus verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wonder wound youth
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Página 108 - 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 48 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
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 48 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination ; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already.
Página 29 - But combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those, who have long practised perfidy, grow faithless to each other.
Página 137 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Página 133 - Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.
Página 36 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Página 207 - The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name that has his heart.
Página 135 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.