The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , aufpicious prince ; and let the Mufe In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in bold prophetic numbers skill'd , Set thee in arms , and led thee to the field ; My Muse expecting on the ...
... thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , aufpicious prince ; and let the Mufe In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in bold prophetic numbers skill'd , Set thee in arms , and led thee to the field ; My Muse expecting on the ...
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... thunder - bolt compleat ; Alternately their hammers rife and fall ; Whilft griping tongs turn round the glowing ball . With puffing bellows fome the flames increase , And fome in waters dip the hiffing mass ; Their beaten anvils ...
... thunder - bolt compleat ; Alternately their hammers rife and fall ; Whilft griping tongs turn round the glowing ball . With puffing bellows fome the flames increase , And fome in waters dip the hiffing mass ; Their beaten anvils ...
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... thunder aw'd , And claim'd their homage , and commenc'd a god ; I flourish'd all the while in arts of peace , Retir'd and shelter'd in inglorious eafe : I who before the fongs of fhepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play ...
... thunder aw'd , And claim'd their homage , and commenc'd a god ; I flourish'd all the while in arts of peace , Retir'd and shelter'd in inglorious eafe : I who before the fongs of fhepherds made , When gay and young my rural lays I play ...
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... thunder , scare , And ftun the reader with the din of war ! With fear my spirits and my blood retire , To see the seraphs funk in clouds of fire ; But when , with eager fteps , from hence I rife , And view the firft gay scenes of ...
... thunder , scare , And ftun the reader with the din of war ! With fear my spirits and my blood retire , To see the seraphs funk in clouds of fire ; But when , with eager fteps , from hence I rife , And view the firft gay scenes of ...
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... thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike fons would difunite By foreign gold , or by domeftic fpite : But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Naffau's arms defend and counfels guide . Fir'd with the name , which ...
... thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike fons would difunite By foreign gold , or by domeftic fpite : But strives in vain to conquer or divide , Whom Naffau's arms defend and counfels guide . Fir'd with the name , which ...
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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.