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... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeasur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeasur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rose , Where crowded ...
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... look , Which fuch confusion and amazement ftruck Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us defcry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thine eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found ...
... look , Which fuch confusion and amazement ftruck Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us defcry Mirth in thy brow , and pleasure in thine eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found ...
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... Looks gay , and glistens in a gilded coat ; But love of eafe , and floth in one prevails , That scarce his hanging paunch behind him trails : . } The The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some 20 ADDISON'S POEMS .
... Looks gay , and glistens in a gilded coat ; But love of eafe , and floth in one prevails , That scarce his hanging paunch behind him trails : . } The The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some 20 ADDISON'S POEMS .
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Samuel Johnson. The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some fparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits ...
Samuel Johnson. The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some fparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfom and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits ...
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... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and every bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and every bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
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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 229 - 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 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 44 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...
Page 107 - The god sits high, exalted on a throne Of blazing gems, with purple garments on ; The hours, in order rang'd on either hand, And days, and months, and years, and ages stand. Here spring appears with...
Page 253 - Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve, And call up all thy father in thy soul : To quell the tyrant Love, and guard thy heart On this weak side, where most our nature fails, Would be a conquest worthy Cato's son.
Page 248 - Commanding tears to stream through every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept. Our author shuns...
Page 223 - To all my weak Complaints and Cries Thy Mercy lent an Ear, Ere yet my feeble Thoughts had learnt 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 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 281 - This sober conduct is a mighty virtue In lukewarm patriots. Cato. Come! no more, Sempronius, All here are friends to Rome, and to each other. Let us not weaken still the weaker side By our divisions. Sem. Cato, my resentments Are sacrificed to Rome — I stand reproved.