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... earth , And gave the empire of the world its birth . Troy long had found the Grecians bold and fierce , Ere Homer mufter'd up their troops in verfe ; Long had Achilles quell'd the Trojans ' luft , And laid the labour of the gods in duft ...
... earth , And gave the empire of the world its birth . Troy long had found the Grecians bold and fierce , Ere Homer mufter'd up their troops in verfe ; Long had Achilles quell'd the Trojans ' luft , And laid the labour of the gods in duft ...
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Samuel Johnson. To bind the tyrants of the earth with laws , And fight in every injur'd nation's cause , The world's great patriots ; they for justice call ; And , as they favour , kingdoms rife or fall , Our British youth , unus'd to ...
Samuel Johnson. To bind the tyrants of the earth with laws , And fight in every injur'd nation's cause , The world's great patriots ; they for justice call ; And , as they favour , kingdoms rife or fall , Our British youth , unus'd to ...
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... earth with ficke : Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high , Here molten ftones and scatter'd cinders fly : Its fury reaches the remotest coast , And ftrows the Afiatic fhore with duft . Now does the failor from the neighbouring ...
... earth with ficke : Here crags of broken rocks are twirl'd on high , Here molten ftones and scatter'd cinders fly : Its fury reaches the remotest coast , And ftrows the Afiatic fhore with duft . Now does the failor from the neighbouring ...
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... earth below ; As thick as hail - ftones from the floor rebound , Or fhaken acorns rattle on the ground . No fenfe of danger can their kings control , Their little bodies lodge a mighty soul : Each obftinate in arms purfues his blow ...
... earth below ; As thick as hail - ftones from the floor rebound , Or fhaken acorns rattle on the ground . No fenfe of danger can their kings control , Their little bodies lodge a mighty soul : Each obftinate in arms purfues his blow ...
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... earth's flow womb Unrumple their fwoln buds , and fhow their yellowbloom . For once I faw in the Tarentine vale , Where flow Galefus drencht the washy foil , An old Corycian yeoman , who had got A few neglected acres to his lot , Where ...
... earth's flow womb Unrumple their fwoln buds , and fhow their yellowbloom . For once I faw in the Tarentine vale , Where flow Galefus drencht the washy foil , An old Corycian yeoman , who had got A few neglected acres to his lot , Where ...
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Page 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 329 - 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 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 45 - 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 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Page 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Page 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Page 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.