The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... most esteemed deare , If iewels rich , thou diddest hold in prise , Such store thereof , such plentie have I seen , As to a greedie minde might well suffice : With that downe trickled many a siluer teare , Two 54 THE LIFE OF WALLER .
... most esteemed deare , If iewels rich , thou diddest hold in prise , Such store thereof , such plentie have I seen , As to a greedie minde might well suffice : With that downe trickled many a siluer teare , Two 54 THE LIFE OF WALLER .
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... holds further for as you quit the lute the sooner be- cause the posture is suspected to draw the body awry , so this is not always practised without some villany ' to the mind , wresting it from present oc- casions , and accustoming us ...
... holds further for as you quit the lute the sooner be- cause the posture is suspected to draw the body awry , so this is not always practised without some villany ' to the mind , wresting it from present oc- casions , and accustoming us ...
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... hold . And now she views , as on the wall it hung , What old Musæus so divinely sung ; Which art with life and love did so inspire , That she discerns and favours that desire ; Which there provokes the ' adventurous youth to And in ...
... hold . And now she views , as on the wall it hung , What old Musæus so divinely sung ; Which art with life and love did so inspire , That she discerns and favours that desire ; Which there provokes the ' adventurous youth to And in ...
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... hold , but halting conquers Heaven . Nor was the stream of thy devotion stopp'd , When from the body such a limb was lopp'd , As to thy present state was no less maim , Though thy wise choice has since repair'd the same . Bold Homer ...
... hold , but halting conquers Heaven . Nor was the stream of thy devotion stopp'd , When from the body such a limb was lopp'd , As to thy present state was no less maim , Though thy wise choice has since repair'd the same . Bold Homer ...
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... holds resemblance with those spotless skies Where flowing Nilus want of rain supplies ; That crystal heaven , where Phœbus never shrouds His golden beams , nor wraps his face in clouds . But what so hard which numbers cannot force ? So ...
... holds resemblance with those spotless skies Where flowing Nilus want of rain supplies ; That crystal heaven , where Phœbus never shrouds His golden beams , nor wraps his face in clouds . But what so hard which numbers cannot force ? So ...
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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.