The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... first glory of fo brave a pile , Whether to Cæfar , Albanact , or Brute , The British Arthur , or the Danish Cnute , ( Though this of old no less contest did move , Than when for Homer's birth seven cities ftrove ) ( Like him in birth ...
... first glory of fo brave a pile , Whether to Cæfar , Albanact , or Brute , The British Arthur , or the Danish Cnute , ( Though this of old no less contest did move , Than when for Homer's birth seven cities ftrove ) ( Like him in birth ...
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... First loves to do , then loves the good he does . Nor are his bleffings to his banks confin'd , But free , and common , as the fea or wind ; When he , to boaft or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores ...
... First loves to do , then loves the good he does . Nor are his bleffings to his banks confin'd , But free , and common , as the fea or wind ; When he , to boaft or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores ...
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... first disperse Form , order , beauty , through the universe ; While drynefs moisture , coldness heat refifts , All that we have , and that we are , subsists . While the steep horrid roughness of the wood Strives with the gentle calmnefs ...
... first disperse Form , order , beauty , through the universe ; While drynefs moisture , coldness heat refifts , All that we have , and that we are , subsists . While the steep horrid roughness of the wood Strives with the gentle calmnefs ...
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... First made their subjects , by oppreffion , bold : And popular fway , by forcing kings to give More than was fit for fubjects to receive , Ran to the fame extremes ; and one excess Made both , by ftriving to be greater , less . When a ...
... First made their subjects , by oppreffion , bold : And popular fway , by forcing kings to give More than was fit for fubjects to receive , Ran to the fame extremes ; and one excess Made both , by ftriving to be greater , less . When a ...
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... first Thymotes moves ( urg'd by the power Of fate or fraud ) to place it in the tower ; But Capys and the graver fort thought fit The Greeks fufpected prefent to commit To feas or flames , at least to search and bore The fides , and ...
... first Thymotes moves ( urg'd by the power Of fate or fraud ) to place it in the tower ; But Capys and the graver fort thought fit The Greeks fufpected prefent to commit To feas or flames , at least to search and bore The fides , and ...
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Страница 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Страница 15 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
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Страница 18 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Страница 293 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Страница 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Страница 335 - If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Страница 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Страница 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.