The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... cause , The world's great patriots ; they for justice call ; And , as they favour , kingdoms rife or fall , Our British youth , unus'd to rough alarms , Careless of fame , and negligent of arms , Had long forgot to meditate the foe ...
... cause , The world's great patriots ; they for justice call ; And , as they favour , kingdoms rife or fall , Our British youth , unus'd to rough alarms , Careless of fame , and negligent of arms , Had long forgot to meditate the foe ...
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... cause ; While the clean current , though serene and bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Muse , a fofter strain rehearse , Turn every line with art , and finooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy ...
... cause ; While the clean current , though serene and bright , Betrays a bottom odious to the fight . But now , my Muse , a fofter strain rehearse , Turn every line with art , and finooth thy verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy ...
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... cause of all my harms ; " Neptune , as on his fhores I went to rove , " Obferv'd me in my walks , and fell in love . " He made his courtship , he confess'd his pain , " And offer'd force when all his arts were vain ; " Swift he pursued ...
... cause of all my harms ; " Neptune , as on his fhores I went to rove , " Obferv'd me in my walks , and fell in love . " He made his courtship , he confess'd his pain , " And offer'd force when all his arts were vain ; " Swift he pursued ...
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... cause it takes off from the folemnity of the expression , and gives it too great a turn of familiarity : much less ought the low phrafes and terms of art , that are adapted to husbandry , have any place in fuch a work as the Georgic ...
... cause it takes off from the folemnity of the expression , and gives it too great a turn of familiarity : much less ought the low phrafes and terms of art , that are adapted to husbandry , have any place in fuch a work as the Georgic ...
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... cause . Now firft on Albion's theatre we fee A perfect image of what man should be ; The glorious character is now exprest , Of virtue dwelling in a human breast : Drawn at full length by your immortal lines , In Cato's foul , as in her ...
... cause . Now firft on Albion's theatre we fee A perfect image of what man should be ; The glorious character is now exprest , Of virtue dwelling in a human breast : Drawn at full length by your immortal lines , In Cato's foul , as in her ...
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Aëre æther arms aſk atque behold beſt blood bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe CYCNUS death DECIUS defcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fenate fhall fhining fight fire firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuccefs fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf itſelf Jove JUBA laft laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty moſt muſt myſelf numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet Portius praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome SEMPRONIUS ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtreams Syphax tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue waſte Whilft youth САТО
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Страница 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Страница 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Страница 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Страница 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Страница 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Страница 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Страница 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Страница 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Страница 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.