A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. BlairJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... death , the wretch's laft ralief . The rage of jealousy then feiz'd his mind , For much he fear'd the faith of woman - kind . His wife , not fuffer'd from his fide to ftray , Was captive kept , he watch'd her night and day , Abridg'd ...
... death , the wretch's laft ralief . The rage of jealousy then feiz'd his mind , For much he fear'd the faith of woman - kind . His wife , not fuffer'd from his fide to ftray , Was captive kept , he watch'd her night and day , Abridg'd ...
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... death , the fings , A fatal throne to two contending kings , And funeral flames , that parting wide in air Exprefs the difcord of the fouls they bear : Of towns difpeopled , and the wandering ghosts Of kings unbury'd in the wafted coats ...
... death , the fings , A fatal throne to two contending kings , And funeral flames , that parting wide in air Exprefs the difcord of the fouls they bear : Of towns difpeopled , and the wandering ghosts Of kings unbury'd in the wafted coats ...
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... death , our Argives yearly pay Thefe grateful honours to the God of day . When by a thousand darts the Python slain With orbs unroll'd lay covering all the plain , ( Transfix'd as o'er Caftalia's streams he hung , And fuck'd new poifons ...
... death , our Argives yearly pay Thefe grateful honours to the God of day . When by a thousand darts the Python slain With orbs unroll'd lay covering all the plain , ( Transfix'd as o'er Caftalia's streams he hung , And fuck'd new poifons ...
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... Death ftill draws nearer , never feeming near . Great ftanding miracle ! that heaven allign'd Its only thinking thing this turn of mind . II . Whether with reafon , or with inftinct bleft , Know , all enjoy that power which fuits them ...
... Death ftill draws nearer , never feeming near . Great ftanding miracle ! that heaven allign'd Its only thinking thing this turn of mind . II . Whether with reafon , or with inftinct bleft , Know , all enjoy that power which fuits them ...
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... death , Explore the thought , explain the afking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heaven , to blefs thofe days , preferve my friend , SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE ...
... death , Explore the thought , explain the afking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heaven , to blefs thofe days , preferve my friend , SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE ...
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Página 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 92 - 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 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Página 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!