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Página 242 - lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
Página 243 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam: purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly
Página 341 - hoary shade; And ye that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights the expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey ; Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way I Ah, happy hills! Ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood
Página 358 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields The warbling woodlands, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields, All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even; All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields. And all the dread
Página 287 - sea a city stands Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive-grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long: There, flowery hill,
Página 356 - To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, (for pride attends us still,) Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill; Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all 1 saw. And, as a hare whom hounds and horns
Página 301 - land; And makes the hollow seas that roar. Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He casts (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's pearl upon our coast; And in these rocks for us did frame A temple where to sound His name. Oh 1 let our voice His praise exalt,
Página 341 - weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, A stranger yet to pain: I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, To breathe a second spring. Say, Father Thames! for thou hast
Página 301 - On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night; And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormuz shows. With cedars, chosen by his hand From Lebanon, He stores
Página 326 - was what you call a fine gentleman. But, being ill-used by the widow, he was very serious for a year and a half: and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. lie continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same