The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 53Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... sea , majestic rose An hundred foot aloft , like stately beech Around the brim of Dion's glaffy lake , Charming the mimic painter : on the walls Hung Salem's facred spoils ; the golden board , And golden trumpets , now conceal'd ...
... sea , majestic rose An hundred foot aloft , like stately beech Around the brim of Dion's glaffy lake , Charming the mimic painter : on the walls Hung Salem's facred spoils ; the golden board , And golden trumpets , now conceal'd ...
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... sea spreads . Sagacious care foreacts : when strong disease Breaks in , and stains the purple streams of health , Hard is the strife of art : the coughing pest From their green pafture sweeps whole flocks away . That dire diftemper ...
... sea spreads . Sagacious care foreacts : when strong disease Breaks in , and stains the purple streams of health , Hard is the strife of art : the coughing pest From their green pafture sweeps whole flocks away . That dire diftemper ...
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... Sea ' Mong folitary hills infectious lies . See the swift furies , famine , plague , and war , In frequent thunders rage o'er neighbouring realms , And spread their plains with defolation wide : Yet your mild homesteads , ever - bloming ...
... Sea ' Mong folitary hills infectious lies . See the swift furies , famine , plague , and war , In frequent thunders rage o'er neighbouring realms , And spread their plains with defolation wide : Yet your mild homesteads , ever - bloming ...
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... sea , Or green Altinum , by an hundred Alps High - crown'd , whofe woods and fnowy peaks aloft Shield her low plains from the rough northern blast . Thofe too of Boetica's delicious fields , With golden fruitage blefs'd of highest taste ...
... sea , Or green Altinum , by an hundred Alps High - crown'd , whofe woods and fnowy peaks aloft Shield her low plains from the rough northern blast . Thofe too of Boetica's delicious fields , With golden fruitage blefs'd of highest taste ...
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... Sea ; and of France in attempting , by canals , a communication between the Ocean and the Mediterranean . Such junctions may more easily be performed in England , and the Trent and Severn united to the Thames . Defcrip- tion of the ...
... Sea ; and of France in attempting , by canals , a communication between the Ocean and the Mediterranean . Such junctions may more easily be performed in England , and the Trent and Severn united to the Thames . Defcrip- tion of the ...
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Ægyptus æther afcending Amyntor arife Aurelius behold beneath bofom boundleſs breaſt brow caft charms climes clouds coaft deep defcend diftant duft earth erft ev'n facred fafe fair Falernum fame fcene fecure feen fenfe fhade fhall fhepherd fhine fhore fide filence filk fink firſt flame fleece fleep flood fmile foft fome fong fons foul fpring ftill fuch funk fure fwains fweet fwell grace Grongar Hill groves hand heart heaven hills himſelf ifle juft laft laſt light loft Marine Society moſt Mufe Muſe muſt Nature's night nymphs o'er paffion plain pleaſe pleaſure praiſe proud rais'd reafon realms rife rocks rofe round ſcene ſhade ſhall ſheep ſhore ſkies ſkill ſky ſpread ſtate ſtep ſtill ſtorm ſtream thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand toil unnumber'd vafe vale vext waſte wave whofe whoſe wild wind wing wonder woods wool
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Seite 4 - Boafted their order which Callimachus (Reclining ftudious on Afopus' banks Beneath an urn of fome lamented nymph) Haply compos'd ; the urn with foliage curl'd Thinly conceal'd, the chapiter inform'd. See the tall obelifcs from Memphis old, One ftone enormous each, or Thebes convey'd ; Like Albion's fpires they rufh into the Ikies.
Seite 30 - The sturdy rustic, in the middle wave, Awaits to seize him rising ; one arm bears His lifted head above the limpid stream, While the full clammy fleece the other laves Around, laborious, with repeated toil ; And then resigns him to the sunny bank, Where, bleating loud, he shakes his dripping locks.
Seite 9 - Or the tall growth of glossy-rinded beech ; And where the burrowing rabbit turns the dust ; And where the dappled deer delights to bound. Such are the downs of...
Seite 1 - Hark how the mighty billows lash their vaults, And thunder; how they heave their rocks in vain; Though now incessant time has roll'd around A thousand winters o'er the changeful world, And yet a thousand, since th' indignant floods Roar loud in their firm bounds, and dash, and swell, In vain; convey'd to Tiber's lowest wave.
Seite 103 - Tore the wild-flying sails and tumbling masts; While flames, thick-flashing in the gloom, reveal'd Ruins of decks and shrouds, and sights of death. Yet on he far'd, with fortitude his cheer,— Gaining, at intervals, slow way, beneath Del Fuego's rugged cliffs ; and the white ridge Above all height, (by opening clouds...