The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... beauty and fineness of their language , and of all that they call Les belles Lettres . Nor was this nicety of his judgment confined only to books and literature ; but was the same in statuary , painting , and all other parts of art ...
... beauty and fineness of their language , and of all that they call Les belles Lettres . Nor was this nicety of his judgment confined only to books and literature ; but was the same in statuary , painting , and all other parts of art ...
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... beauty find : The thousand Loves that arm thy potent eye , Must drop their quivers , flag their wings , and die . Then wilt thou sigh , when in each frown A hateful wrinkle more appears ; And putting peevish humours on , Seems but the ...
... beauty find : The thousand Loves that arm thy potent eye , Must drop their quivers , flag their wings , and die . Then wilt thou sigh , when in each frown A hateful wrinkle more appears ; And putting peevish humours on , Seems but the ...
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... beauty ceases to engage So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures shall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . WHILE from our looks , fair Nymph , you guess 56 ODES .
... beauty ceases to engage So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures shall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . WHILE from our looks , fair Nymph , you guess 56 ODES .
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... Beauty's join'd ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . Alas ! not hoping to subdue , I only to the fight aspired : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I desired . But she , howe'er of ...
... Beauty's join'd ? Could I their prevalence deny , I must at once be deaf and blind . Alas ! not hoping to subdue , I only to the fight aspired : To keep the beauteous foe in view Was all the glory I desired . But she , howe'er of ...
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... beauty , in thy softer half Buried and lost , she ought to grieve ; But let her strength in thee be safe ; And let her weep , but let her live . Thou , guardian Angel ! save the land From thy own grief , her fiercest foe , Lest Britain ...
... beauty , in thy softer half Buried and lost , she ought to grieve ; But let her strength in thee be safe ; And let her weep , but let her live . Thou , guardian Angel ! save the land From thy own grief , her fiercest foe , Lest Britain ...
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Abra arms battle of Ramillies beauty Belgia bless'd Boileau breast breath bright call'd Carvel charms command confess'd court crown'd cruel cruel doubt death delight Derry distinguish'd dread Earl Earl of Dorset earth Elector of Bavaria fair fame fate fear flame flies force glory grace grief grieve happy hast heart Heaven hero Hippolytus honour hope Hudibras Jove king labour land light live Lord lyre maid master Matthew Prior mind mourn Muse Namur ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er obey pain pass'd passion peace Pindaric pleasure poem poet praise pride prince Prior Queen rage reason reign rising Sambre sighs sing Solomon song sorrow soul sure tell thee things thou thought throne to-morrow toil truth Twas verse vex'd virtue ween weep whence Whilst William wound youth
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Page 59 - Euphelia's toilet lay ; When Chloe noted her desire, That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes. Fair Chloe blushed : Euphelia frowned : I sung and gazed : I played and trembled : And Venus to the Loves around Remarked, how ill we all dissembled.
Page 263 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 204 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time : also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." — Ver. 11. " For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
Page 113 - My love, my life, said I, explain This change of humour : pr'ythee, tell : That falling tear — What does it mean ? She sigh'd ; she smil'd : and to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both flourish bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale, and gone...
Page 262 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 204 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 262 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 230 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page 204 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 234 - twas Rage ; 'twas Noise ; An airy Scene of transitory Joys. In vain I trusted, that the flowing Bowl Would banish Sorrow, and enlarge the Soul. To the late Revel, and protracted Feast Wild Dreams succeeded, and disorder'd Rest ; And as at Dawn of Morn fair Reason's Light Broke thro...