The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 23. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... himself in thee . Thou teacheft Perfius to inform our isle In fmoother numbers , and a clearer style ; And Juvenal , inftructed in thy page , Edges his fatire , and improves his rage . Thy copy cafts a fairer light on all , And still ...
... himself in thee . Thou teacheft Perfius to inform our isle In fmoother numbers , and a clearer style ; And Juvenal , inftructed in thy page , Edges his fatire , and improves his rage . Thy copy cafts a fairer light on all , And still ...
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... himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd in streams Of thofe ...
... himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'st thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd in streams Of thofe ...
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... himself did on the bees confer ; Because , invited by the timbrel's found , Lodg'd in a cave th ' almighty babe they found , And the young god nurft kindly under - ground . Of all the wing'd inhabitants of air , These only make their ...
... himself did on the bees confer ; Because , invited by the timbrel's found , Lodg'd in a cave th ' almighty babe they found , And the young god nurft kindly under - ground . Of all the wing'd inhabitants of air , These only make their ...
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... himself with pleasure fee The whole creation in a chorus join . CHORUS . Confecrate the place and day , To music and Cecilia . Let no rough winds approach , nor dare Invade the hallow'd bounds , Nor rudely shake the tuneful air , Nor ...
... himself with pleasure fee The whole creation in a chorus join . CHORUS . Confecrate the place and day , To music and Cecilia . Let no rough winds approach , nor dare Invade the hallow'd bounds , Nor rudely shake the tuneful air , Nor ...
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... himself was feiz'd with fear ; He gaz'd around , but faw no fuccour near ; He gaz'd , and half - abandon'd to defpair His hopes on heaven , and confidence in prayer . To Britain's queen the nations turn their eyes , On her refolves the ...
... himself was feiz'd with fear ; He gaz'd around , but faw no fuccour near ; He gaz'd , and half - abandon'd to defpair His hopes on heaven , and confidence in prayer . To Britain's queen the nations turn their eyes , On her refolves the ...
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Page 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Page 295 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Page 41 - 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 her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Page 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Page 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Page 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Page 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Page 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.