Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's GeorgicsJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... stood ; Juft men , by whom impartial laws were given ; And faints , who taught , and led , the way to heav'n . Ne'er to these chambers , where the Mighty reft , Since their foundation , came a nobler gueft , Nor e'er was to the bowers ...
... stood ; Juft men , by whom impartial laws were given ; And faints , who taught , and led , the way to heav'n . Ne'er to these chambers , where the Mighty reft , Since their foundation , came a nobler gueft , Nor e'er was to the bowers ...
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... stood looking on . But stop not here : Behold where Berkley stands , And executes his injur'd King's commands ; Around thy coaft his bursting bombs he pours On flaming citadels , and falling tow'rs ; With hiffing ftreams of fire the air ...
... stood looking on . But stop not here : Behold where Berkley stands , And executes his injur'd King's commands ; Around thy coaft his bursting bombs he pours On flaming citadels , and falling tow'rs ; With hiffing ftreams of fire the air ...
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... stood . And fingles out the place where once St. Maloes Here Ruffel's actions should my Mufe requires And would my strength but fecond my defire , I'd all his boundless bravery rehearse , And draw his cannons thund'ring in my verfe ...
... stood . And fingles out the place where once St. Maloes Here Ruffel's actions should my Mufe requires And would my strength but fecond my defire , I'd all his boundless bravery rehearse , And draw his cannons thund'ring in my verfe ...
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... stood , A hideous monster , terrible , deform'd ; Full in the midst of his high front there gap'd The spacious hollow where his eye - ball roll'd , A ghaftly orifice ; he rins'd the wound , And wash'd away the ftrings and clotted blood ...
... stood , A hideous monster , terrible , deform'd ; Full in the midst of his high front there gap'd The spacious hollow where his eye - ball roll'd , A ghaftly orifice ; he rins'd the wound , And wash'd away the ftrings and clotted blood ...
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... stood . Planted in fields of death , and streams of blood , So wont the guarded enemy to reach , And rife triumphant in the fatal breach , Or pierce the broken foe's remotest lines , The hardy veteran with tears refigns . Unfortunate ...
... stood . Planted in fields of death , and streams of blood , So wont the guarded enemy to reach , And rife triumphant in the fatal breach , Or pierce the broken foe's remotest lines , The hardy veteran with tears refigns . Unfortunate ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Aëre æther amidſt arms atque BAROMETRI bleft bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus caft courfe courſe Cycnus defcription diftant eaſe ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fecret feven fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fince fire firft firſt fkies flain fome fong foul fpring ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fuci Gaul Georgic goddeſs Gods Gulfton heav'n herſelf himſelf itſelf Jove laft laſt loft maid mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt neighb'ring Nimbis numbers Nunc nymph o'er omne Ovid Ovid's paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure poem poet purſue Quæ rage raiſe reft rife rifu riſe round ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhow ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtill ſtood ſtory ſtreams thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thunder transform'd turba verfe verſe view'd Virgil Whilft whofe winds woods wou'd youth
Pasajes populares
Página xxx - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; 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 xxxii - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Página 65 - 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 87 - While to exalt thy doom, th' aspiring Gaul Shares thy destruction, and adorns thy fall. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Temp'ring each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. Long did he strive th...
Página 87 - That proudly set thee on a fancy'd throne, And made imaginary realms thy own ! Thy troops, that now behind the Danube join, .Shall...
Página 304 - ... to a bee than to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the...
Página 67 - I've already troubled you too long, Nor dare attempt a more advent'rous song. My humble verse demands a softer theme, A painted mea,dow, or a purling stream ; Unfit for heroes; whom immortal lays, And lines like Virgil's, or like yours, should praise.
Página 63 - 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...
Página 55 - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song. That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Página xl - How thy own laurel firft began to grow ; How wild Lycaon, chang'd by angry Gods, And frighted at himfelf, ran howling thro