Poems and Translations;: With The Sophy, a TragedyJacob Tonson, 1719 - 236 páginas |
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... Power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . When in that Remedy all Hope was plac'd Which was , or should have been at least , the laft . Here was that Charter feal'd , wherein the Crown All Marks of Arbitrary Pow'r lays down : Runny Mead ...
... Power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . When in that Remedy all Hope was plac'd Which was , or should have been at least , the laft . Here was that Charter feal'd , wherein the Crown All Marks of Arbitrary Pow'r lays down : Runny Mead ...
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... Power Legislative . And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please , Without fear of a Prison or Pursuivants Fees . Next , that we only may lye by Authority ; But in that alfo you have got the Priority . Next , an old Cuftom , our ...
... Power Legislative . And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please , Without fear of a Prison or Pursuivants Fees . Next , that we only may lye by Authority ; But in that alfo you have got the Priority . Next , an old Cuftom , our ...
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... Power to change Age into Youth , Turn Non - fenfe to Senfe , and Falfhood to Truth ; In brief , to make good whatsoever is faulty ; This Art fome Poet , or the Devil has taught ye : And this our Property you have invaded , And a ...
... Power to change Age into Youth , Turn Non - fenfe to Senfe , and Falfhood to Truth ; In brief , to make good whatsoever is faulty ; This Art fome Poet , or the Devil has taught ye : And this our Property you have invaded , And a ...
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... Power extends ; In that they imitate the Pow'r Divine , The Sun alike on Good and Bad doth fhine ; And he that doth no Good , although no Ill , Does not the Office of the Just fulfill . Virtue doth Man to virtuous Actions steer , ' Tis ...
... Power extends ; In that they imitate the Pow'r Divine , The Sun alike on Good and Bad doth fhine ; And he that doth no Good , although no Ill , Does not the Office of the Just fulfill . Virtue doth Man to virtuous Actions steer , ' Tis ...
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... Powers ingage In the fame Studies , the fame Courie to hold ; Nor think our Reason for new Arts too old . Solon the Sage his Progress never ceas'd , But ftill his Learning with his Days increas'd ; And I with the fame Greediness did ...
... Powers ingage In the fame Studies , the fame Courie to hold ; Nor think our Reason for new Arts too old . Solon the Sage his Progress never ceas'd , But ftill his Learning with his Days increas'd ; And I with the fame Greediness did ...
Términos y frases comunes
againſt Androgeus Arms Atride becauſe beſt caft Calchas Caliph Caufe Cauſe Command Counfels Courſe Crime Danger Death defire Deſign doth Enter ev'ry Eyes fafe faid fame Fate Father Fatyma Fear fecure feem felf felves fhall fhould fight fince Fire firft firſt Flame Foes fome Friends ftand ftill fuch fudden fufpect fure give Gods good-natur'd Haly Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf Honour Hopes Juft Juftice King laft laſt lefs lofe loft Lord Love Mafter Mirvan Miſchief moft moſt muft muſt Nature Paffion paft plac'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poets Pow'r Praiſe preſent Prince Princefs Priſoners Pyrrhus raiſe Reaſon Revenge Samnites ſeek ſelf Senfe ſhall ſhe ſome Soul ſpeak ſtand ſtill Tarentum thee thefe themſelves theſe thine Things thofe THOMAS KILLIGREW thoſe thou Thoughts thouſand Troy Twas twill Virtue Whilft whofe Whoſe Wife Wiſdom Youth
Pasajes populares
Página 8 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 6 - Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Página 5 - When he that patron chose, in whom are join'd Soldier and martyr, and his arms confin'd Within the azure circle, he did seem But to foretell, and...
Página 10 - ... avoid, with that his fate to meet; but fear prevails, and bids him trust his feet. So fast he flies, that his reviewing eye has lost the chasers, and his ear the cry ; exulting, till he finds their nobler sense...
Página 4 - C'nute; (tho' this of old no less contest did move than when for Homer's birth seven cities strove) (like him in birth, thou shouldst be like in fame, as thine his fate, if mine had been his flame) but whosoe'er it was, Nature design'd first a brave place, and then as brave a mind.
Página 2 - Preferv'd from ruin by the beft of kings. Under his proud furvey the city lies, And like a mift beneath a hill doth rife ; Whofe ftate and wealth, the bufinefs and the crowd, Seems at this diftance but a darker cloud : And is, to him who rightly things efteems, No other in...
Página 55 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.
Página 6 - And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplations, dwell; And like the block, unmoved lay: but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours.
Página 11 - Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, the scenes of his past triumphs and his loves, sadly surveying where he rang'd alone, prince of the soil, and all the herd his own, and like a bold knight-errant did proclaim combat to all, and bore away the dame, and taught the woods to echo to the stream his dreadful challenge, and his clashing beam ; yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, so much his love was dearer than his life.
Página 135 - Whose dignity as long as life endures. Something of youth I in old age approve, But more the marks of age in youth I love. Who this observes may in his body find Decrepit age, but never in his mind. The...