The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... ignoble ends design'd , Promote the common welfare of mankind ; No wild ambition moves , but Europe's fears , The cries of orphans , and the widow's tears : Oppret ་ Oppreft Religion gives the firft alarms , And injur'd TO THE KIN G. II.
... ignoble ends design'd , Promote the common welfare of mankind ; No wild ambition moves , but Europe's fears , The cries of orphans , and the widow's tears : Oppret ་ Oppreft Religion gives the firft alarms , And injur'd TO THE KIN G. II.
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... tears burst out unbidden at the found ; Maria still our rising mirth destroys , Darkens our triumphs , and forbids our joys . But fee , at length , the British ships appear ! Our Naffau comes and as his fleet draws near , The The rifing ...
... tears burst out unbidden at the found ; Maria still our rising mirth destroys , Darkens our triumphs , and forbids our joys . But fee , at length , the British ships appear ! Our Naffau comes and as his fleet draws near , The The rifing ...
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... tears with gum , For the first ground - work of the golden comb ; On this they found their waxen works , and raise The yellow fabrick on its glewy base . Some educate the young , or hatch the feed With vital warmth , and future nations ...
... tears with gum , For the first ground - work of the golden comb ; On this they found their waxen works , and raise The yellow fabrick on its glewy base . Some educate the young , or hatch the feed With vital warmth , and future nations ...
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... tear their filken wings , or lie Groveling beneath their flowery load , and die . Thus love of honey can an infect fire , And in a fly fuch generous thoughts inspire . Yet by repeopling their decaying state , Though seven short springs ...
... tear their filken wings , or lie Groveling beneath their flowery load , and die . Thus love of honey can an infect fire , And in a fly fuch generous thoughts inspire . Yet by repeopling their decaying state , Though seven short springs ...
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... tears . If fatire or heroic ftrains fhe writes , Her hero pleases , and her fatire bites . From her no harfh unartful numbers fall , She wears all dreffes , and fhe charms in all .. How might we fear our English poetry , That long has ...
... tears . If fatire or heroic ftrains fhe writes , Her hero pleases , and her fatire bites . From her no harfh unartful numbers fall , She wears all dreffes , and fhe charms in all .. How might we fear our English poetry , That long has ...
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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.