The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 13-14J. Nichols, 1779 - Authors, English |
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... facred lays Provoke our wonder , and transcend our praise ! Can neither injuries of time , or age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote ; Grief chill'd his breast , and check'd his rifing ...
... facred lays Provoke our wonder , and transcend our praise ! Can neither injuries of time , or age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote ; Grief chill'd his breast , and check'd his rifing ...
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... facred eagle fly . II . Though our best notes are treason to his fame , Join'd with the loud applause of public voice ; Since heaven , what praise we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Though in his ...
... facred eagle fly . II . Though our best notes are treason to his fame , Join'd with the loud applause of public voice ; Since heaven , what praise we offer to his name , Hath render'd too authentic by its choice . III . Though in his ...
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... facred Majefty CHARLES II , 1660 . " Jam redit & virgo , redeunt Saturnia regna . " VIRG . The last great age foretold by facred rhimes Renews it's finish'd course : Saturnian times Roll round again . N OW with a general peace the world ...
... facred Majefty CHARLES II , 1660 . " Jam redit & virgo , redeunt Saturnia regna . " VIRG . The last great age foretold by facred rhimes Renews it's finish'd course : Saturnian times Roll round again . N OW with a general peace the world ...
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... facred purple then and scarlet gown , Like fanguine dye , to elephants was shewn . Thus when the bold Typhœus scal'd the sky , And forc'd great Jove from his own heaven to fly , ( What king , what crown , from treason's reach is free ...
... facred purple then and scarlet gown , Like fanguine dye , to elephants was shewn . Thus when the bold Typhœus scal'd the sky , And forc'd great Jove from his own heaven to fly , ( What king , what crown , from treason's reach is free ...
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... facred altar strews ? To all the fea gods Charles an offering owes : A bull to thee , Portunus , shall be flain , A lamb to you , ye tempests of the main : For those loud storms that did against him roar , Have cast his shipwreck'd ...
... facred altar strews ? To all the fea gods Charles an offering owes : A bull to thee , Portunus , shall be flain , A lamb to you , ye tempests of the main : For those loud storms that did against him roar , Have cast his shipwreck'd ...
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Page 181 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 129 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 195 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 173 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 120 - And, to be loved himself, needs only to be known. Just, good, and wise, contending neighbours ,. come, | From your award to wait their final doom ; ( And, foes before, return in friendship home. Without their cost, you terminate the cause, And save the...
Page 89 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The King himself the sacred unction made, As King by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He plac'da mighty mug of potent ale; Love's Kingdom...
Page 182 - Excites us to arms With shrill notes of anger And mortal alarms. The double double double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, hark ! the foes come ; Charge, charge, 'tis too late to retreat.
Page 91 - Where did his wit on learning fix a brand And rail at arts he did not understand? Where made he love in Prince Nicander's vein Or swept the dust in Psyche's humble strain? Where sold he bargains, "whipstitch, kiss my arse", Promised a play and dwindled to a farce?
Page 192 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...