The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... thine : high - wall'd with adamant , Guarded with terrors reaching to this world , And cover'd with the thunders of thy law ; 450 Whofe threats are mercies , whofe injunctions , guides , Affifting , not reftraining , reason's choice ...
... thine : high - wall'd with adamant , Guarded with terrors reaching to this world , And cover'd with the thunders of thy law ; 450 Whofe threats are mercies , whofe injunctions , guides , Affifting , not reftraining , reason's choice ...
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... thine ; From thee they came , like lovers ' secret sighs , While others flept . So Cynthia ( poets feign ) In fhadows veil'd , foft - fliding from her sphere , Her fhepherd chear'd ; of her enamour'd less , Than I of thee . - And art ...
... thine ; From thee they came , like lovers ' secret sighs , While others flept . So Cynthia ( poets feign ) In fhadows veil'd , foft - fliding from her sphere , Her fhepherd chear'd ; of her enamour'd less , Than I of thee . - And art ...
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... Thine ; Mankind's eternity . Nor Faith alone , Virtue grows here ; here fprings the fovereign cure Of almost every vice ; but chiefly Thine ; Wrath , Pride , Ambition , and impure Defire . Lorenzo ! Thou canft wake at midnight too ...
... Thine ; Mankind's eternity . Nor Faith alone , Virtue grows here ; here fprings the fovereign cure Of almost every vice ; but chiefly Thine ; Wrath , Pride , Ambition , and impure Defire . Lorenzo ! Thou canft wake at midnight too ...
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... thine eye , ( if bold an eye to lift , If bold to meet the face of injur'd heaven ) To yonder ftars : For other ends they shine , Than to light revellers from shame to shame , And , thus , be made accomplices in guilt . Why from yon ...
... thine eye , ( if bold an eye to lift , If bold to meet the face of injur'd heaven ) To yonder ftars : For other ends they shine , Than to light revellers from shame to shame , And , thus , be made accomplices in guilt . Why from yon ...
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... thine eye tells thee , the romance is true . The grand of nature is th ' Almighty's oath , In reafon's court , to filence unbelief . 830 835 840 845 How my mind , opening at this scene , imbibes The moral emanations of the skies , While ...
... thine eye tells thee , the romance is true . The grand of nature is th ' Almighty's oath , In reafon's court , to filence unbelief . 830 835 840 845 How my mind , opening at this scene , imbibes The moral emanations of the skies , While ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æther art thou beams beneath bleffing blifs boaft boaſt boundleſs breaſt Britain Britain's Britannia's cauſe Codrus darkneſs death defcend diftant divine dread earth eternal facred fafe fame fate fatire feas fenfe fhall fhine fhould fing firſt fkies flame fleep fmile fome fong fons forrow foul fpirits ftand ftars ftill ftreams fubject fuch fwell genius glorious glory gods heart heaven human immortal juſt laſt lefs leſs Lorenzo luftre man's mankind mighty moft mortal moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt nature's ne'er night numbers o'er paffion pain paſt peace Pindar pleaſe pleaſure praife praiſe preſent pride profe proud raiſe reafon refign'd Refignation rife riſe ſcene ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtorm ſtrikes thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne Trade virtue Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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Página 4 - What is the world itself? thy world — a grave. Where is the dust that has not been alive ? The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors. From human mould we reap our daily bread. The globe around earth's hollow surface shakes, And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons. O'er devastation we blind revels keep : Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel.
Página 50 - Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ! Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust.
Página 37 - How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll ! And what it seems, it is : great objects make Great minds, enlarging as their views enlarge ; Those still more godlike, as these more divine. And more divine than these, thou canst not see.
Página 8 - Vain hope ! it is too late! Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and despair!
Página 44 - What hand behind the scene, What arm Almighty, put these wheeling globes In motion, and wound up the vast machine?
Página 191 - To show (in vain !) he still retains his wits : Another marries, and his dear proves keen ; He writes as an hypnotic for the...
Página 90 - Twixt human and divine. But though full noble is my theme. Full urgent is my call To soften sorrow, and forbid The bursting tear to fall : The task I dread ; dare I to leave Of...
Página 190 - With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes : Slight, peevish insects round a genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter, and they sting : But as by depredations wasps proclaim The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame.
Página 26 - Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! Nor tarries there ; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.
Página 1 - Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords, And chants his sonnet to deceive the time, Till the due season calls him to repose : Thus I...