A History of English Poetry, Volume 5Macmillan and Company, 1911 - English poetry |
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... thou canst not praise : But as thou dwellest upon that heavenly name , To grief for ever sacred , as to fame , Oh , read it to thyself ; in silence weep , And thy convulsive sorrows inward keep ; Lest Britain's grief should waken at the ...
... thou canst not praise : But as thou dwellest upon that heavenly name , To grief for ever sacred , as to fame , Oh , read it to thyself ; in silence weep , And thy convulsive sorrows inward keep ; Lest Britain's grief should waken at the ...
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... thou sustain'st the orb below . Prior found more truly congenial employment for his own talents in burlesquing the classical hyperboles by which Boileau had attempted to exalt the glory of Louis XIV . after the capture of Namur by the ...
... thou sustain'st the orb below . Prior found more truly congenial employment for his own talents in burlesquing the classical hyperboles by which Boileau had attempted to exalt the glory of Louis XIV . after the capture of Namur by the ...
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... thou goddess heavenly bright , Profuse of bliss , and pregnant with delight ! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign , And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eased of her load subjection grows more light , And poverty looks ...
... thou goddess heavenly bright , Profuse of bliss , and pregnant with delight ! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign , And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eased of her load subjection grows more light , And poverty looks ...
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... thou saw'st thy bravest troops repelled , Thine only son pierced with a deadly wound , Choked in his blood , and gasping on the ground , Thyself in bondage by the victor kept ! The chief , the father , and the captive wept . An English ...
... thou saw'st thy bravest troops repelled , Thine only son pierced with a deadly wound , Choked in his blood , and gasping on the ground , Thyself in bondage by the victor kept ! The chief , the father , and the captive wept . An English ...
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... thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victors ' shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies , And all the thunder of the battle rise ...
... thou find To sing the furious troops in battle joined ? Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victors ' shouts and dying groans confound ; The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies , And all the thunder of the battle rise ...
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Addison admirable afterwards Ambrose Philips ancient appeared blank verse Bolingbroke Canto character Charles Charles Wesley charms Christian Church Classical Renaissance Collins Court Cowper criticism death Deism diction didactic Dryden Dunciad eighteenth century England English poetry epic Epistle Essay expression eyes fame feeling French genius Greek hand heart heaven heroic couplet Horace Horace Walpole Ibid Iliad imagination imitation inspired Italy Johnson Joseph Warton King King Arthur Latin latter liberty lines literary live Lord lyric manner mind mock-heroic moral Muse nature numbers o'er panegyrical passion Philips Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical political Pope Pope's praise principle Prior published reader reign religion religious Renaissance Rolliad romantic satire says seems society soul Spectator spirit style Swift taste Tatler thee Thomas Warton Thomson thou thought tion translation verse virtue Walpole Warton Whig William writing written