The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... animated rocks to live : ' Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate And hold in balance each contending state , To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war , And answer B 2 JOSEPH ADDISON . 3 Extract from The Letter from Italy.
... animated rocks to live : ' Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate And hold in balance each contending state , To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war , And answer B 2 JOSEPH ADDISON . 3 Extract from The Letter from Italy.
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... fate : While with calm joy , safe landed on the coast , I view the waves on which I once was tost . Love is a medley of endearments , jars , Suspicions , quarrels , reconcilements , wars , Then peace again . O would it not be best To ...
... fate : While with calm joy , safe landed on the coast , I view the waves on which I once was tost . Love is a medley of endearments , jars , Suspicions , quarrels , reconcilements , wars , Then peace again . O would it not be best To ...
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... fates above ; The bleak Arcturus still forbid the seas , The stormy Kids , the weeping Hyades ; The shining lyre with strains attracting more Heaven's glittering mansions now than Hell's before ; Glad Cassiopeia circling in the sky ...
... fates above ; The bleak Arcturus still forbid the seas , The stormy Kids , the weeping Hyades ; The shining lyre with strains attracting more Heaven's glittering mansions now than Hell's before ; Glad Cassiopeia circling in the sky ...
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... fate I drive on my car in processional state . So with Phia through Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva , and him a new God . But why should I stories of Athens rehearse Where people knew love , and were partial to verse ...
... fate I drive on my car in processional state . So with Phia through Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva , and him a new God . But why should I stories of Athens rehearse Where people knew love , and were partial to verse ...
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... ages move , ' Tis so ordained , ( would Fate but mend it ! ) That I shall be past making love , When she begins to comprehend it . A SONG . In vain you tell your parting lover MATTHEW PRIOR . 21 To a Child of Quality, Five Years.
... ages move , ' Tis so ordained , ( would Fate but mend it ! ) That I shall be past making love , When she begins to comprehend it . A SONG . In vain you tell your parting lover MATTHEW PRIOR . 21 To a Child of Quality, Five Years.
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Addison admiration ALLAN RAMSAY Ambrose Philips beauty beneath blest born breast breath Burns Castle of Indolence charm Chatterton critics dear death delight Dryden Dunciad e'er Eclogues English English poetry Epistle Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate feel fool frae genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY grace Gratius Faliscus grave Gray Grongar Hill hand happy hear heart heaven kings labour literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers o'er once pain passion perhaps Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prose rhyme rise round satire sense shade shine sing smile song soul spirit Spleen sweet Swift taste tear tell thee things THOMAS TICKELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling truth Twas verse virtue Whig wind wise write youth