Juvenile poemsA. Millar, 1757 |
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... pow'r is bleft ; " Fame , I foresee , will make reprisals there , " And the Tranflator's Palm to me transfer . " With less regret my claim I now decline , 20 " The World will think his English Iliad mine . " E. FENTΟΝ . To Mr. PОРЕ . TO ...
... pow'r is bleft ; " Fame , I foresee , will make reprisals there , " And the Tranflator's Palm to me transfer . " With less regret my claim I now decline , 20 " The World will think his English Iliad mine . " E. FENTΟΝ . To Mr. PОРЕ . TO ...
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... pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boaft , To all the world illustriously are loft ! O let my Muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre : So when the ...
... pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boaft , To all the world illustriously are loft ! O let my Muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre : So when the ...
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... pow'r 45 The captive bird that sings within thy bow'r ! Then might my voice thy lift'ning ears employ , And I those kisses he receives enjoy . 55 And yet my numbers please the rural throng , Rough Satyrs dance , and Pan applauds the ...
... pow'r 45 The captive bird that sings within thy bow'r ! Then might my voice thy lift'ning ears employ , And I those kisses he receives enjoy . 55 And yet my numbers please the rural throng , Rough Satyrs dance , and Pan applauds the ...
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... pow'r to move ! And is there magic but what dwells in love ! 84 Resound , ye hills , resound my mournful strains ! I'll fly from shepherds , flocks , and flow'ry plains . From shepherds , flocks , and plains , I may remove , Forsake ...
... pow'r to move ! And is there magic but what dwells in love ! 84 Resound , ye hills , resound my mournful strains ! I'll fly from shepherds , flocks , and flow'ry plains . From shepherds , flocks , and plains , I may remove , Forsake ...
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... pow'r remains : Thy realm for ever lasts , thy own MESSIAH reigns ! IMITATIONS . -incipient magni procedere menses ! Aspice , venturo l¿tentur ut omnia f¿clo ! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Ifaiah , here cited ...
... pow'r remains : Thy realm for ever lasts , thy own MESSIAH reigns ! IMITATIONS . -incipient magni procedere menses ! Aspice , venturo l¿tentur ut omnia f¿clo ! etc. The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Ifaiah , here cited ...
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Page 84 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 187 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 44 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 171 - Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant brain, While Peers, and Dukes, and all their sweeping train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear...
Page xv - All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.
Page 112 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 119 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Page 177 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Page 211 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?