A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, Band 1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... boasting leaders bound , And his proud bulwarks fmoaking on the ground ; In vain with pow'rs renew'd he fill'd the plain , Made tim❜rous vows , and brib'd the faints in vain ; As oft his legions did the fight decline , Lurk'd in the ...
... boasting leaders bound , And his proud bulwarks fmoaking on the ground ; In vain with pow'rs renew'd he fill'd the plain , Made tim❜rous vows , and brib'd the faints in vain ; As oft his legions did the fight decline , Lurk'd in the ...
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... boast great Louis yields , and cheaply buys Thy friendship , ANNA , with the mighty prize . Holland repining and in grief caft down , Sees the new glories of the British crown : Ah ! may they ne'er provoke thee to the fight , Nor foes ...
... boast great Louis yields , and cheaply buys Thy friendship , ANNA , with the mighty prize . Holland repining and in grief caft down , Sees the new glories of the British crown : Ah ! may they ne'er provoke thee to the fight , Nor foes ...
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... boast ; Heav'n feems through us thy empire to decree , Those who win hearts , have giv'n their hearts to thee . Haft thou not heard that , when profufely gay , Our well - drefs'd rivals grace their fov'reign's day , We stubborn damfels ...
... boast ; Heav'n feems through us thy empire to decree , Those who win hearts , have giv'n their hearts to thee . Haft thou not heard that , when profufely gay , Our well - drefs'd rivals grace their fov'reign's day , We stubborn damfels ...
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Robert Dodsley. Yet I could tell , but that I hate to boast , A club of ladies where ' tis me they toast , PATCH . Toasting does feldom any favour prove ; Like us , they never toaft the thing they love . A certain duke one night my ...
Robert Dodsley. Yet I could tell , but that I hate to boast , A club of ladies where ' tis me they toast , PATCH . Toasting does feldom any favour prove ; Like us , they never toaft the thing they love . A certain duke one night my ...
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... boast , And fee if reafon may not there be loft . SMILINDA . What more than marble must that breast compose , That liftens coldly to my SHARPER'S vows ! eager Then when he trembles , when his blushes rise , When aweful love feems ...
... boast , And fee if reafon may not there be loft . SMILINDA . What more than marble must that breast compose , That liftens coldly to my SHARPER'S vows ! eager Then when he trembles , when his blushes rise , When aweful love feems ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
æther becauſe beneath bleffings bleft boaſt breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms dreadful eaſe endleſs Engliſh Ev'n eyes facred fafe fair falſe fame fate fatire fecret feem fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhine fhun fide filent fing firſt flain fmiles foes foft fome fons foon foul ftill fuch fwell Gaul grace Grongar Hill happineſs heart heav'n houſe joys juſt kings laſt lefs leſs loft mind moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er nymph o'er paffion pain paſs paſt pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride proud purſue quæ quid rage raiſe reaſon rife riſe ſcarce ſcene ſchemes ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhining ſhould ſkies ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak Spleen ſpread ſpring ſtage ſtands ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtream ſtrength ſtrive ſweet taſte thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tow'rs uſe virtue whofe Whoſe wiſh youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 217 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Seite 284 - And pungent radish, biting infant's tongue ; And plantain ribb'd, that heals the reaper's '.• wound; And marj'ram sweet, in shepherd's posie found; And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom Shall be, erewhile, in arid bundles bound, To lurk amidst the labours of her loom, And crown her kerchiefs clean, with mickle rare , perfume.
Seite 370 - How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, 'with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! W.
Seite 231 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Seite 372 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Seite 233 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 281 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display; And at the door imprisoning board is seen, Lest weakly wights of smaller size should stray; Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day!
Seite 250 - That cast an awful Look below ; Whose ragged Walls the Ivy creeps, And with her Arms from falling keeps; So both a.
Seite 249 - The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Seite 291 - Tho now he crawl along the ground so low, Nor weeting how the Muse should soar on high, Wisheth, poor starv'ling elf! his paper-kite may fly. And this perhaps, who, cens'ring the design, Low lays the house which that of cards doth build, Shall DENNIS be! if rigid fates incline, And many an Epic to his rage shall yield; And many a poet quit th...