The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry - 1157 pages |
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... rest were given to the people . The next year he wrote , in conjunction with Lee . Oedipus , a tragedy , founded on the tragedies of Sophocles and Seneca , which was acted with great fuccefs , and acknowledged by Langbaine , " to be one ...
... rest were given to the people . The next year he wrote , in conjunction with Lee . Oedipus , a tragedy , founded on the tragedies of Sophocles and Seneca , which was acted with great fuccefs , and acknowledged by Langbaine , " to be one ...
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... rest . XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , The ftars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . XXVIII . From this high spring our foreign ...
... rest . XXVII . When fuch heroic virtue heaven fets out , The ftars , like commons , fullenly obey ; Because it drains them when it comes about , And therefore is a tax they feldom pay . XXVIII . From this high spring our foreign ...
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... rest . Abroad your empire fhall no limits know , But , like the fea , in boundless circles flow . Your much - lov'd fleet fhall , with a wide command , Befiege the petty monarchs of the land : And as old Time his offspring fwallow'd ...
... rest . Abroad your empire fhall no limits know , But , like the fea , in boundless circles flow . Your much - lov'd fleet fhall , with a wide command , Befiege the petty monarchs of the land : And as old Time his offspring fwallow'd ...
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... rest in peace , and yet in motion fhare . From which the happy never must be free ; Let envy then those crimes within you fee , Envy , that does with mifery refide , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Think it not hard , at fo ...
... rest in peace , and yet in motion fhare . From which the happy never must be free ; Let envy then those crimes within you fee , Envy , that does with mifery refide , The joy and the revenge of ruin'd pride . Think it not hard , at fo ...
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... rest Two giant fhips , the pride of all the main ; Which with his one fo vigorously he prefs'd , And flew fo home they could not rise again . CXXVIII . Already batter'd , by his lee they lay , In vain upon the paffing winds they call ...
... rest Two giant fhips , the pride of all the main ; Which with his one fo vigorously he prefs'd , And flew fo home they could not rise again . CXXVIII . Already batter'd , by his lee they lay , In vain upon the paffing winds they call ...
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Page 168 - 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 264 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 147 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 106 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Page 41 - 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 233 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Page 133 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Page 215 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Page 176 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.