The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 20J. Johnson, 1810 - 644 Seiten |
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... fear . His courage and magnanimity brighten up as much upon this occasion , as afterwards they did at the battles of Pharsalia and Munda . Courage would have cost Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as easily ...
... fear . His courage and magnanimity brighten up as much upon this occasion , as afterwards they did at the battles of Pharsalia and Munda . Courage would have cost Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as easily ...
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... fear , the fear of death , despise ; Hence they no cares for this frail being feel , But rush undaunted on the pointed steel ; Provoke approaching fate , and bravely scorn spare that life which must so soon return . You too tow'rds Rome ...
... fear , the fear of death , despise ; Hence they no cares for this frail being feel , But rush undaunted on the pointed steel ; Provoke approaching fate , and bravely scorn spare that life which must so soon return . You too tow'rds Rome ...
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... fear command us to be dumb ; But Figulus exclaims ( to science bred , And in the gods mysterious secrets read ; Whom nor Ægyptian Memphis ' sons excell'd , Nor with more skill the rolling orbs beheld : Well could he judge the labours of ...
... fear command us to be dumb ; But Figulus exclaims ( to science bred , And in the gods mysterious secrets read ; Whom nor Ægyptian Memphis ' sons excell'd , Nor with more skill the rolling orbs beheld : Well could he judge the labours of ...
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... fear officious strive , And those who kiss the tyrant's hand survive . Oh could you fall so low , degenerate race ! And purchase safety at a price so base ? What though the sword was master of your doom , Though Marius could have given ...
... fear officious strive , And those who kiss the tyrant's hand survive . Oh could you fall so low , degenerate race ! And purchase safety at a price so base ? What though the sword was master of your doom , Though Marius could have given ...
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... fear'd the laws , Each private murder was the public cause . The leader bade destroy : and at the word , The master fell beneath the servant's sword . Brothers on brothers were for gifts bestow'd , And sons contended for their father's ...
... fear'd the laws , Each private murder was the public cause . The leader bade destroy : and at the word , The master fell beneath the servant's sword . Brothers on brothers were for gifts bestow'd , And sons contended for their father's ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid Amycus Anacreon ancient Argo arms bear beauty behold beneath blood bold bosom breast Cæsar Chalciope charms chief Colchian crown'd cry'd dart death dread earth Euphemus ev'n eyes fair fam'd fame fatal fate fear fierce fire fix'd flame flies flood goddess gods golden grace Greek grief hand haste head heart Heaven heroes honour Idyllium Jason join'd Jove king labours land Latian light lov'd Lucan maid Medea mighty Mopsus Moschus mournful Muses night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pain Peleus Pentheus Pharsalia Phineus Phoebus Phrixus plac'd plain poet Pompey pow'r queen rage rais'd rise Roman Rome round sacred sails says seas shade shore sire skies slain soft song soon soul spoke stood streams swain sweet sword tears thee Theocritus Thessaly thou Thracian thro Tibullus Tiphys toil trembling vanquish'd Venus Virgil waves winds wound wretched youth
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Seite 356 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition...
Seite 198 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 533 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Seite 383 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease.
Seite 208 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Seite 378 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Seite 530 - The breathless embryo with a spirit warm'd ; But when the mother's throes begin to come, The creature, pent within the narrow room...
Seite 347 - Two cities radiant on the shield appear, The image one of peace, and one of war, Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed...
Seite 423 - By pray'rs are bent to pity, and to love; If human miseries can move their mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated earth.
Seite 319 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.