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... version of Virgil , Ecl . i . 5 . While ftretch'd at eafe , you fing your happy loves , And Amaryllis fills the fhady groves . Ver . 9. There is a tenderness and fimplicity in his original exhibition of this paffage , which pleafes me ...
... version of Virgil , Ecl . i . 5 . While ftretch'd at eafe , you fing your happy loves , And Amaryllis fills the fhady groves . Ver . 9. There is a tenderness and fimplicity in his original exhibition of this paffage , which pleafes me ...
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... version of Virgil's tenth eclogue ; Thy facred fuccour , Arethufa , bring To crown my labour : ' tis the last I sing : and from Ogilby , at the fame place : And who for Gallus will refufe to write ? Milton had preceded him in this ...
... version of Virgil's tenth eclogue ; Thy facred fuccour , Arethufa , bring To crown my labour : ' tis the last I sing : and from Ogilby , at the fame place : And who for Gallus will refufe to write ? Milton had preceded him in this ...
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... version of Canace to Macareus : Then with tumultuous joys my heart did beat , And guilt , that made them anxious , made them great . S. Ver . 238. I ftretch my empty arms : it glides away he was gone . In vain I fought my foul's belov'd ...
... version of Canace to Macareus : Then with tumultuous joys my heart did beat , And guilt , that made them anxious , made them great . S. Ver . 238. I ftretch my empty arms : it glides away he was gone . In vain I fought my foul's belov'd ...
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... version of the latter part of the third book of Lucretius ; a portion of that great poet's works , unhappily omitted through inatten- tion in Johnson's Collection of English Poetry : No No ghosts , no goblins , that still paffage keep ...
... version of the latter part of the third book of Lucretius ; a portion of that great poet's works , unhappily omitted through inatten- tion in Johnson's Collection of English Poetry : No No ghosts , no goblins , that still paffage keep ...
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... version of Ovid , Met . i . 8 . Before the feas , and this terrestrial ball , And Heaven's high canopy , that covers all . Ver . 147 . fome change , fince all began : that is , fome changes take place in the system of creation , in ...
... version of Ovid , Met . i . 8 . Before the feas , and this terrestrial ball , And Heaven's high canopy , that covers all . Ver . 147 . fome change , fince all began : that is , fome changes take place in the system of creation , in ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 215 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 226 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Página 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Página 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 51 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 161 - Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Página 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Página 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...