The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... must thinly on your work be strow'd ; But let no baleful yew - tree flourish near , Nor rotten marshes send out fteams of mire ; Nor burning crabs grow red , and crackle in the fire : Nor neighbouring caves return the dying found , Nor ...
... must thinly on your work be strow'd ; But let no baleful yew - tree flourish near , Nor rotten marshes send out fteams of mire ; Nor burning crabs grow red , and crackle in the fire : Nor neighbouring caves return the dying found , Nor ...
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... must be doom'd to die ; So let the royal insect rule alone , And reign without a rival in his throne . The kings are different : one of better note , All fpeckt with gold , and many a fhining spot , Looks gay , and gliftens in a gilded ...
... must be doom'd to die ; So let the royal insect rule alone , And reign without a rival in his throne . The kings are different : one of better note , All fpeckt with gold , and many a fhining spot , Looks gay , and gliftens in a gilded ...
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... must omit , And leave for future poets to recite . Now I'll proceed their natures to declare , Which Jove himself did on the bees confer ; Because , invited by the timbrel's found , Lodg'd in a cave th ' almighty babe they found , And ...
... must omit , And leave for future poets to recite . Now I'll proceed their natures to declare , Which Jove himself did on the bees confer ; Because , invited by the timbrel's found , Lodg'd in a cave th ' almighty babe they found , And ...
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... must we e'er forget thy strains , While Cooper's Hill commands the neighbouring plains . But fee where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years . Great Dryden next , whose tuneful Mufe affords The ...
... must we e'er forget thy strains , While Cooper's Hill commands the neighbouring plains . But fee where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in years . Great Dryden next , whose tuneful Mufe affords The ...
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... must be my doom , " Let man inflict it , and I die well pleas'd . " He ended here , and now profufe of tears In fuppliant mood fell proftrate at our feet ; We bade him peak from whence , and what he was , .. And And how by ftrefs of ...
... must be my doom , " Let man inflict it , and I die well pleas'd . " He ended here , and now profufe of tears In fuppliant mood fell proftrate at our feet ; We bade him peak from whence , and what he was , .. And And how by ftrefs of ...
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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.