The virgin muse. Being a collection of poems from our most celebrated English poets. [Ed.] by J. Greenwood1722 |
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... ftand not in need of any Recommenda tion . If I find that what I have here done , meets with the Approbation of the Sober and Judicious , it will encourage me to prefent the Reader with a Set of Reading - Books , beginning even with the ...
... ftand not in need of any Recommenda tion . If I find that what I have here done , meets with the Approbation of the Sober and Judicious , it will encourage me to prefent the Reader with a Set of Reading - Books , beginning even with the ...
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... ftand , and while fhe charms the Ear , Empties his Quiver on the lift'ning Deer ; Mulick fo foftens and difarms the Mind , That not an Arrow does Refiftance find . Thus the fair Tyrant celebrates the Prize , And acts herself the Triumph ...
... ftand , and while fhe charms the Ear , Empties his Quiver on the lift'ning Deer ; Mulick fo foftens and difarms the Mind , That not an Arrow does Refiftance find . Thus the fair Tyrant celebrates the Prize , And acts herself the Triumph ...
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... ftand still . We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme Idea brave and bright , In the Original Light : But as her Beams reflected pafs , Through our own Nature , or ill Custom's Glass , And ' tis no wonder fo , If with ...
... ftand still . We look not upon Virtue in her height , On her fupreme Idea brave and bright , In the Original Light : But as her Beams reflected pafs , Through our own Nature , or ill Custom's Glass , And ' tis no wonder fo , If with ...
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... ftand the firft ; that when our Lycian's fee Our brave Examples , they admiring fay , Behold our Gallant Leaders ! Thefe are they Deferve the Greatnefs ; and un - envied ftand , Since what they act , tranfcends what they command . Could ...
... ftand the firft ; that when our Lycian's fee Our brave Examples , they admiring fay , Behold our Gallant Leaders ! Thefe are they Deferve the Greatnefs ; and un - envied ftand , Since what they act , tranfcends what they command . Could ...
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... And own'd the God . The Neighbourhood , faid he , Shall justly perifh for Impiety : You ftand alone exempted ; but obey With speed , and follow where we lead the Way : Leave thefe accurs'd ; and to the Mountains Height Afcend Leave ( 64 )
... And own'd the God . The Neighbourhood , faid he , Shall justly perifh for Impiety : You ftand alone exempted ; but obey With speed , and follow where we lead the Way : Leave thefe accurs'd ; and to the Mountains Height Afcend Leave ( 64 )
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Page 158 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 112 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 125 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 158 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 22 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 136 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 136 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave...
Page 116 - Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 143 - Excelling brass, but more excell'd by gold. Then Summer, Autumn, Winter did appear, And Spring was but a season of the year. The sun his annual course obliquely made, Good days contracted, and enlarged the bad.
Page 10 - tis not a Jest Admir'd with Laughter at a feast, Nor florid Talk which can that Title gain; The Proofs of Wit for ever must remain.