The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces Biographical and CriticalJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... Some loofely fwimming in the figur'd main , While fome on rocks their drooping hair divide , And fome on fishes through the waters glide : Though various features did the fifters grace , A fifter's likeness was in every face . On earth ...
... Some loofely fwimming in the figur'd main , While fome on rocks their drooping hair divide , And fome on fishes through the waters glide : Though various features did the fifters grace , A fifter's likeness was in every face . On earth ...
Page 146
... Some die entangled in the winding train ; Some are devour'd ; or feel a loathfome death , Swoln up with blafts of peftilential breath . And now the fcorching fun was mounted high , In all its luftre , to the noon - day sky ; } When ...
... Some die entangled in the winding train ; Some are devour'd ; or feel a loathfome death , Swoln up with blafts of peftilential breath . And now the fcorching fun was mounted high , In all its luftre , to the noon - day sky ; } When ...
Page 151
... Some loos'd her fandals , fome her veil unty'd ; » Each busy nymph her proper part undrest ; While Crocalè , more handy than the reft , Gather'd her flowing hair , and in a noose Bound it together , whilft her own hung loose . Five of ...
... Some loos'd her fandals , fome her veil unty'd ; » Each busy nymph her proper part undrest ; While Crocalè , more handy than the reft , Gather'd her flowing hair , and in a noose Bound it together , whilft her own hung loose . Five of ...
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... Some call'd the evils , which Diana wrought , Too great , and difproportion'd to the fault ; Others again efteem'd Acteon's woes Fit for a virgin - goddess to impofe . The hearers into different parts divide , And reasons are produc'd ...
... Some call'd the evils , which Diana wrought , Too great , and difproportion'd to the fault ; Others again efteem'd Acteon's woes Fit for a virgin - goddess to impofe . The hearers into different parts divide , And reasons are produc'd ...
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... 'm much inclin'd to fear ' " Some counterfeit in this your Jupiter . " Many an honest well - designing maid " Has been by thefe pretended gods betray'd . " But Z " But if he be indeed the thundering Jove OVID , METAMORPH . Book III . 1555.
... 'm much inclin'd to fear ' " Some counterfeit in this your Jupiter . " Many an honest well - designing maid " Has been by thefe pretended gods betray'd . " But Z " But if he be indeed the thundering Jove OVID , METAMORPH . Book III . 1555.
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Page 326 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.\ Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Page 221 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 325 - 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 98 - Not the rough whirlwind that deforms Adria's black gulf and vexes it with storms, The stubborn virtue of his soul can move ; Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Page 333 - Lucius, art thou here ? — thou art too good ! — Let this our friendship live between our children; Make Portius .happy in thy daughter Lucia. Alas! poor man, he weeps! — Marcia, my daughter — — O bend me forward ! — Juba loves thee, Marcia.
Page 270 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? No ; let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him.
Page 200 - This is wonderfully diverting to the understanding: thus to receive a precept that enters, as it were, through a by-way, and to apprehend an idea that draws a whole train after it.
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 247 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. Already...
Page 151 - Who now appear'd but one continued wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.