The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 21. köide1807 |
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... plain simplicity of love , Did all the honors of her house so well , No sharp debates disturb'd the friendly meal : She turn'd the talk , ( avoiding that extreme , ) To common dangers past , a sadly pleasing theme ; Rememb'ring every ...
... plain simplicity of love , Did all the honors of her house so well , No sharp debates disturb'd the friendly meal : She turn'd the talk , ( avoiding that extreme , ) To common dangers past , a sadly pleasing theme ; Rememb'ring every ...
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... plain , He sheaths his paws , uncurls his angry mane , 270 And , pleas'd with bloodless honours of the day , Walks over , and disdain's th ' inglorious prey . So James , if great with less we may compare , Arrests his rolling ...
... plain , He sheaths his paws , uncurls his angry mane , 270 And , pleas'd with bloodless honours of the day , Walks over , and disdain's th ' inglorious prey . So James , if great with less we may compare , Arrests his rolling ...
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... plain ; And saw ( but scarcely could believe their eyes ) New blossoms flourish , and new flow'rs arise ; As God had been abroad , and , walking there , Had left his footsteps , and reform'd the year : The sunny hills from far were seen ...
... plain ; And saw ( but scarcely could believe their eyes ) New blossoms flourish , and new flow'rs arise ; As God had been abroad , and , walking there , Had left his footsteps , and reform'd the year : The sunny hills from far were seen ...
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... plains , and bare unhospitable ground : The latter brood , who just began to fly , Sick - feather'd , and unpractis'd in the sky , For succour to their helpless mother call ; She spread her wings ; some few beneath them crawl ; She ...
... plains , and bare unhospitable ground : The latter brood , who just began to fly , Sick - feather'd , and unpractis'd in the sky , For succour to their helpless mother call ; She spread her wings ; some few beneath them crawl ; She ...
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... plain that , not repealing , you allow . To name the Test would put you in a rage ; You charge not that on any former age ; your But smile to think how innocent you stand , 700 Arm'd by a weapon put into hand ; Yet still remember that ...
... plain that , not repealing , you allow . To name the Test would put you in a rage ; You charge not that on any former age ; your But smile to think how innocent you stand , 700 Arm'd by a weapon put into hand ; Yet still remember that ...
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Amyntas Arcite arms beauty began behold betwixt blood breast call'd Canterbury tales charms Chaucer court crime crowd damn'd dare death design'd DRYDEN DUCHESS of YORK Duke of Guise e'en Emily EPILOGUE ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate fear fight foes fools forc'd give grace happy hast heart Heav'n heav'nly honor JOHN DRYDEN kind king knight ladies laws learn'd liv'd live look'd lord lov'd mighty mind mortal Muse ne'er never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon peace Pirithous plac'd play pleas'd pleasure poets pow'r praise prince PROLOGUE queen race rais'd reign rest rhyme sacred satire scarce sigh sight Silent Woman soul sov'reign stage sure sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought thro true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse Virgil virtue whate'er Whigs wise write young youth
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Page 70 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page 6 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What' passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms.
Page 51 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years: Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 72 - He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 78 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 38 - She gave but glimpses of her glorious mind : And multitudes of virtues pass'd along ; Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Ambitious to be seen, and then make room For greater multitudes that were to come.
Page 96 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Page 69 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 134 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 75 - Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons and their very habits.