The Works of the English PoetsH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... twas did gild our hemifphere . Replenish'd then with fuch rare gifts as these , Where was room left for fuch a foul difeafe ? The nation's fin hath drawn that veil , which fhrouds Our day - spring in fo fad benighting clouds , Heaven ...
... twas did gild our hemifphere . Replenish'd then with fuch rare gifts as these , Where was room left for fuch a foul difeafe ? The nation's fin hath drawn that veil , which fhrouds Our day - spring in fo fad benighting clouds , Heaven ...
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... , Than the light Monfieur the grave Don out - weigh'd : His fortune turn'd the fcale where'er ' twas caft ; Though Indian mines were in the other laid . When XXIV . When abfent , yet we conquer'd in his 16 POEMS . DRYDEN'S.
... , Than the light Monfieur the grave Don out - weigh'd : His fortune turn'd the fcale where'er ' twas caft ; Though Indian mines were in the other laid . When XXIV . When abfent , yet we conquer'd in his 16 POEMS . DRYDEN'S.
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... Twas Monk , whom Providence design'd to loose Thofe real bonds falfe freedom did impofe . The bleffed faints , that watch'd this turning fcene , Did from their ftars with joyful wonder lean , To fee fmall clues draw vafteft weights ...
... Twas Monk , whom Providence design'd to loose Thofe real bonds falfe freedom did impofe . The bleffed faints , that watch'd this turning fcene , Did from their ftars with joyful wonder lean , To fee fmall clues draw vafteft weights ...
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... Twas not the hafty product of a day , But the well - ripen'd fruit of wife delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he strook , Would let him play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the ftomach labours thus , At first embracing ...
... Twas not the hafty product of a day , But the well - ripen'd fruit of wife delay . He , like a patient angler , ere he strook , Would let him play a while upon the hook . Our healthful food the ftomach labours thus , At first embracing ...
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... Twas hence at length just vengeance thought it fit To speed their ruin by their impious wit . Thus Sforza , curs'd with a too fertile brain , Loft by his wiles the power his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at leffer ...
... Twas hence at length just vengeance thought it fit To speed their ruin by their impious wit . Thus Sforza , curs'd with a too fertile brain , Loft by his wiles the power his wit did gain . Henceforth their fougue must spend at leffer ...
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Page 153 - Law they require, let law then show her face ; They could not be content to look on grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front, and die. By their own arts 'tis righteously decreed, Those dire artificers of death shall bleed...
Page 305 - Our frailties help, our vice control, Submit the senses to the soul ; And when rebellious they are grown, Then lay thy hand, and hold them down.
Page 7 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found.
Page 241 - Whence, but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts, In several ages born, in several parts, Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? Unasked their pains, ungrateful their advice, Starving their gain, and martyrdom their price.
Page 170 - Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes ? But of King David's foes, be this the doom, May all be like the young man Absalom ; And, for my foes, may this their blessing be, To talk like Doeg, and to write like thee...
Page 28 - Behold th' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view, As you meet it, the land approacheth you. The land returns, and, in the white it wears, The marks of penitence and sorrow bears.
Page 127 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 151 - So willing to forgive the offending age; So much the father did the king assuage. But now so far my clemency they slight, The offenders question my forgiving right: That one was made for many, they contend; But 'tis to rule; for that's a monarch's end. They call my tenderness of blood, my fear: Though manly tempers can the longest bear. Yet, since they will divert my native course, Tis time to show I am not good by force.
Page 250 - Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey ; And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny...
Page 246 - Are there not many points, some needful sure To saving faith, that scripture leaves obscure? Which every sect will wrest a several way, For what one sect interprets, all sects may ; We hold, and say we prove from scripture plain, That Christ is God ; the bold Socinian From the same scripture urges he's but man.