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But how could you resist the orbs that roll “ In adverse whirls , and stem the rapid
pole ? you perhaps may hope for pleasing woods , “ And stately domes , and
cities fill'd with Gods ; " While through a thousand snares your progress lies ...
But how could you resist the orbs that roll “ In adverse whirls , and stem the rapid
pole ? you perhaps may hope for pleasing woods , “ And stately domes , and
cities fill'd with Gods ; " While through a thousand snares your progress lies ...
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Among these different kind of subjects , that which the Georgics go upon is , I
think , the meanest and least improving , but the most pleasing and delightful .
Precepts of morality , besides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes
us ...
Among these different kind of subjects , that which the Georgics go upon is , I
think , the meanest and least improving , but the most pleasing and delightful .
Precepts of morality , besides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes
us ...
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them ; “ bandry put into a pleasing dress , and set off with all “ the beauties and
embellishments of poetry . ” Now since this science of husbandry is of a very
large extent , the poet fhews his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on ,
as ...
them ; “ bandry put into a pleasing dress , and set off with all “ the beauties and
embellishments of poetry . ” Now since this science of husbandry is of a very
large extent , the poet fhews his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on ,
as ...
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Where the one fets out , as fully and distinctly as he can , all the parts of the truth ,
which he would communicate to us ; the other singles out the most pleasing
circumstance of this truth , and to conveys the whole in a more diverting manner
to ...
Where the one fets out , as fully and distinctly as he can , all the parts of the truth ,
which he would communicate to us ; the other singles out the most pleasing
circumstance of this truth , and to conveys the whole in a more diverting manner
to ...
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I ' Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after
immortality ? Or whence this secret dread , and inward horror , Of falling into
nought ? Why shrinks the foul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ? ' Tis
the divinity ...
I ' Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after
immortality ? Or whence this secret dread , and inward horror , Of falling into
nought ? Why shrinks the foul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ? ' Tis
the divinity ...
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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.