Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis; Absalom and Achitohel; Religio Laici; The Hind and the PantherClarendon Press, 1874 - 301 pages |
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Page xli
... Heaven's expense , I live a rent - charge on His providence . But you , whom every Grace and Muse adorn , Whom I foresee to better fortune born , Be kind to my remains ; and oh , defend , Against your judgment , your departed friend ...
... Heaven's expense , I live a rent - charge on His providence . But you , whom every Grace and Muse adorn , Whom I foresee to better fortune born , Be kind to my remains ; and oh , defend , Against your judgment , your departed friend ...
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... Heaven what praise we offer to his name Hath rendered too authentic by its choice ; 3 Though in his praise no arts can liberal be , Since they , whose Muses have the highest flown , Add not to his immortal memory , But do an act of ...
... Heaven what praise we offer to his name Hath rendered too authentic by its choice ; 3 Though in his praise no arts can liberal be , Since they , whose Muses have the highest flown , Add not to his immortal memory , But do an act of ...
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... Heaven alone , For he was great , ere Fortune made him so ; And wars , like mists that rise against the sun , Made him but greater seem , not greater grow . 7 No borrowed bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels ...
... Heaven alone , For he was great , ere Fortune made him so ; And wars , like mists that rise against the sun , Made him but greater seem , not greater grow . 7 No borrowed bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels ...
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... Heaven in his portrait showed a workman's hand And drew it perfect , yet without a shade . 16 Peace was the prize of all his toil and care , Which war had banished and did now restore : Bologna's walls thus mounted in the air To seat ...
... Heaven in his portrait showed a workman's hand And drew it perfect , yet without a shade . 16 Peace was the prize of all his toil and care , Which war had banished and did now restore : Bologna's walls thus mounted in the air To seat ...
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... virtues did survey By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay That were the rule and measure to the rest . 27 When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The 6 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
... virtues did survey By intuition in his own large breast , Where all the rich ideas of them lay That were the rule and measure to the rest . 27 When such heroic virtue Heaven sets out , The 6 STANZAS ON OLIVER CROMWELL .
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid Albion and Albanius Annus Mirabilis Astrĉa Redux blood bold called changed Charles Church of England common Compare conscience Cromwell death dedicated Derrick doctrine Dryden Duchess Duke of Guise Duke of York Dutch Earl edition of 1688 editors English faith fame fate father fear fight fire fleet foes France French friends grace Heaven Hind Holland honour Hudibras including Scott Jebusites kind King laws Lord means mighty never o'er Oliver Cromwell original edition Ovid Palamon and Arcite Panther passage peace plain play poet Pope Popish Plot praise Preface Prince printed published Queen refers Reformation reign Religio Laici religion rest Restoration rhymes Roman Catholic sacred Satire says Scripture sects sense Shaftesbury Shakespeare shards sons soul spelling spelt stanza thou thought Threnodia Augustalis throne Tis true translation Twas verse Virgil wind wings Wolf word
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Page 247 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 103 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page lvi - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 234 - And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Page x - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Page 103 - So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 285 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 265 - 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 ! how changed from him That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim...
Page 282 - I AB do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of . Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 92 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.