The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases . To this must be added , industrious and select reading , steady ob- servation , and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure ...
... fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases . To this must be added , industrious and select reading , steady ob- servation , and insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure ...
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... fire : But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scene of Paradise ; What tongue , what words of rapture , can express A vision so profuse of pleasantness ! ADDRESS TO GREAT BRITAIN . FROM THOMSON'S SUMMER ...
... fire : But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scene of Paradise ; What tongue , what words of rapture , can express A vision so profuse of pleasantness ! ADDRESS TO GREAT BRITAIN . FROM THOMSON'S SUMMER ...
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... laureat bust behold , Or trace his form on circulating gold . Unknown , unheeded , long his offspring lay , And want hung threatening o'er her slow decay . What though she shine with no Miltonian fire , No 96 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON .
... laureat bust behold , Or trace his form on circulating gold . Unknown , unheeded , long his offspring lay , And want hung threatening o'er her slow decay . What though she shine with no Miltonian fire , No 96 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON .
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Including Translations ... What though she shine with no Miltonian fire , No favouring Muse her morning - dreams inspire ; Yet softer claims the melting heart engage , Her youth laborious , and her blameless age ; Her's the mild merits ...
Including Translations ... What though she shine with no Miltonian fire , No favouring Muse her morning - dreams inspire ; Yet softer claims the melting heart engage , Her youth laborious , and her blameless age ; Her's the mild merits ...
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... fire , Who durst defy the ' Omnipotent to arms . Nine times the space , that measures day and night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom ...
... fire , Who durst defy the ' Omnipotent to arms . Nine times the space , that measures day and night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.