The British poets, including translations, Volume 241822 |
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... gain by such a cause ! Not barren praise alone , that gaudy flower , Fair only to the sight , but solid power ; And nobler is a limited command , Given by the love of all your native land , Than a successive title , long and dark ...
... gain by such a cause ! Not barren praise alone , that gaudy flower , Fair only to the sight , but solid power ; And nobler is a limited command , Given by the love of all your native land , Than a successive title , long and dark ...
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British poets. What could he gain his people to betray , Or change his right for arbitrary sway ? Let haughty Pharaoh curse with such a reign His fruitful Nile , and yoke a servile train . If David's rule Jerusalem displease , The dog ...
British poets. What could he gain his people to betray , Or change his right for arbitrary sway ? Let haughty Pharaoh curse with such a reign His fruitful Nile , and yoke a servile train . If David's rule Jerusalem displease , The dog ...
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... gain'd our elders to pronounce a foe . His right , for sums of necessary gold , Shall first be pawn'd , and afterwards be sold , Till time shall ever - wanting David draw To pass your doubtful title into law ; If not , the people have a ...
... gain'd our elders to pronounce a foe . His right , for sums of necessary gold , Shall first be pawn'd , and afterwards be sold , Till time shall ever - wanting David draw To pass your doubtful title into law ; If not , the people have a ...
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... gain'd , Like women's lechery to seem constrain'd . Doubt not ; but , when he most affects the frown , Commit a pleasing rape upon the Crown . Secure his person to secure your cause ; They who possess the prince possess the laws . ' He ...
... gain'd , Like women's lechery to seem constrain'd . Doubt not ; but , when he most affects the frown , Commit a pleasing rape upon the Crown . Secure his person to secure your cause ; They who possess the prince possess the laws . ' He ...
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... gain ; Nor ever was he known an oath to vent , Or curse , unless against the government . Thus , heaping wealth , by the most ready way Among the Jews , which was to cheat and pray , The City , to reward his pious hate Against his ...
... gain ; Nor ever was he known an oath to vent , Or curse , unless against the government . Thus , heaping wealth , by the most ready way Among the Jews , which was to cheat and pray , The City , to reward his pious hate Against his ...
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Page 20 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit...
Page 285 - But Oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
Page 95 - Tis true she bounded by and tripped so light, They had not time to take a steady sight ; For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Page 15 - Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves ; and wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.
Page 20 - In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 261 - Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before, Till he, with full decorum, brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. As for his songs, the ladies' dear delight, These sure he took from most of you who write.
Page 84 - And in his father's right and realm's defence, 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 placed a mighty mug of potent ale;
Page 142 - With loss of all that mortals hold so dear. Then welcome infamy and public shame, And last, a long farewell to worldly fame ! 'Tis said with ease ; but, oh, how hardly...
Page 286 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Page 94 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.