Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 3John Aikin |
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... Virtue could befall , If Fate or giddy Fortune govern'd all ? Nay , worse than other beasts is our estate ; Them , to pursue their pleasures , you create ; We , bound by harder laws , must curb our will , And your commands , not our ...
... Virtue could befall , If Fate or giddy Fortune govern'd all ? Nay , worse than other beasts is our estate ; Them , to pursue their pleasures , you create ; We , bound by harder laws , must curb our will , And your commands , not our ...
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... virtues more conspicuous might appear . Thus by the general voice was Arcite prais'd , And by great Theseus to high favour rais'd : Among his menial servants first enroll'd , And largely entertain'd with sums of gold : Besides what ...
... virtues more conspicuous might appear . Thus by the general voice was Arcite prais'd , And by great Theseus to high favour rais'd : Among his menial servants first enroll'd , And largely entertain'd with sums of gold : Besides what ...
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... virtue ran . All dropt their tears , ev'n the contended maid , And thus among themselves they softly said : " What eyes can suffer this unworthy sight ! Two youths of royal blood , renown'd in fight , The mastership of Heaven in face ...
... virtue ran . All dropt their tears , ev'n the contended maid , And thus among themselves they softly said : " What eyes can suffer this unworthy sight ! Two youths of royal blood , renown'd in fight , The mastership of Heaven in face ...
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... virtue void : The bellows of his lungs begin to swell , All out of frame is every secret cell , Nor can the good receive , nor bad expel . Those breathing organs , thus within opprest , With venom soon distend the sinews of his breast ...
... virtue void : The bellows of his lungs begin to swell , All out of frame is every secret cell , Nor can the good receive , nor bad expel . Those breathing organs , thus within opprest , With venom soon distend the sinews of his breast ...
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... virtue , valour , and for noble blood , Truth , honour , all that is compriz'd in good ; So help me Heaven , in all the world is none So worthy to be lov'd as Palamon . He loves you too , with such an holy fire , As will not , cannot ...
... virtue , valour , and for noble blood , Truth , honour , all that is compriz'd in good ; So help me Heaven , in all the world is none So worthy to be lov'd as Palamon . He loves you too , with such an holy fire , As will not , cannot ...
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Ah willow Arcite arm'd arms beauteous behold blood bore breast breath call'd Chanticleer charms coursers Creon crown'd cry'd Cymon dame death dream dy'd Earth Emily ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire flames forc'd Fortune Gaul grace green ground grove hand happy heart Heaven Hesiod honour horrour join'd JOSEPH ADDISON Jove kind king knight labour ladies laurel light liv'd look'd lord lov'd Lysimachus maid mind mortal Muse Nature's never numbers nymphs o'er pain Palamon pass'd Philostratus Pirithous plac'd plain pleas'd pointed lance prepar'd prescience prey pride prince proud queen race rais'd ravish'd renown'd resolv'd rest Reynard Rhodian rich rise secret seem'd shade shine sigh'd sight sing slain song soul sound Splendid Shilling steed stood sung sweet sword Thebes thee Theseus thine THOMAS PARNELL thou thought troop turn'd Twas virtue vows wind wine wood youth
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Page 2 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 3 - Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 104 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Page 213 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm...
Page 6 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Page 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 276 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Page 209 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Page 169 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire ; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. " Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay ; In narrow mazes oft it seem'd to meet, . And look'd as lightly ^press'd by fairy feet.
Page 274 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.