The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... wise men ; and your grace has given sufficient proofs , that you are of that number . It can never therefore be thought too late to offer a just tribute to his late majesty's memory , and to that of his great ancestors , a race so ...
... wise men ; and your grace has given sufficient proofs , that you are of that number . It can never therefore be thought too late to offer a just tribute to his late majesty's memory , and to that of his great ancestors , a race so ...
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... wise . Love , I feel thy power divine , And blushing now my heart resign ! THE SOLDIER IN LOVE . A CANTATA . SET WITH SYMPHONIES BY MR . PEPUSCH . AIR . WHY , too amorous hero ! why Dost thou the war forego , At Celia's feet to lic ...
... wise . Love , I feel thy power divine , And blushing now my heart resign ! THE SOLDIER IN LOVE . A CANTATA . SET WITH SYMPHONIES BY MR . PEPUSCH . AIR . WHY , too amorous hero ! why Dost thou the war forego , At Celia's feet to lic ...
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... wise Reflection cure . But oh ! -- more anxious for the year to come , I would foreknow my future doom . Then tell me , Janus , canst thou spy Events that yet in embryo lie For me , in Time's mysterious womb ? Tell me - nor shall I ...
... wise Reflection cure . But oh ! -- more anxious for the year to come , I would foreknow my future doom . Then tell me , Janus , canst thou spy Events that yet in embryo lie For me , in Time's mysterious womb ? Tell me - nor shall I ...
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... wise scorn their mouldering dust survey . Their tombs are rais'd from dust as well as they ; For see ! to dust they both return , And Time consumes alike the ashes and the urn . We ask the sculptor's art in vain To make us for a space ...
... wise scorn their mouldering dust survey . Their tombs are rais'd from dust as well as they ; For see ! to dust they both return , And Time consumes alike the ashes and the urn . We ask the sculptor's art in vain To make us for a space ...
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... wise ? Tender hearts to every passion Still their freedom would betray , But how calm is inclination , When our reason , bears the sway ! Swains themselves , while they pursue us , Often teach us to deny . While we fly , they fondly woo ...
... wise ? Tender hearts to every passion Still their freedom would betray , But how calm is inclination , When our reason , bears the sway ! Swains themselves , while they pursue us , Often teach us to deny . While we fly , they fondly woo ...
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Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow Ganymede goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord lov'd Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Phoebus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
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Seite 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Seite 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Seite 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
Seite 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Seite 213 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Seite 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
Seite 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Seite 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
Seite 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...