The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... , and fear'd in wars , Inur'd to noon - day fweats , and mid - night cares ! But ftill the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One [ 9 ]
... , and fear'd in wars , Inur'd to noon - day fweats , and mid - night cares ! But ftill the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One [ 9 ]
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Samuel Johnson. Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran , Ere Virgil rais'd his voice , and fung the man Who , driven by stress of fate , such dangers ...
Samuel Johnson. Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One age the hero , one the poet breeds . A thousand years in full fucceffion ran , Ere Virgil rais'd his voice , and fung the man Who , driven by stress of fate , such dangers ...
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... verse ; High on the deck should the great leader ftand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But But who can run the British ...
... verse ; High on the deck should the great leader ftand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . But But who can run the British ...
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... verse , and takes a nobler flight . Bleft man ! whose spotlefs life and charming lays Employ'd the tuneful prelate in thy praise ; Bleft man who now fhall be for ever known , In Sprat's fuccessful labours and thy own . But Milton next ...
... verse , and takes a nobler flight . Bleft man ! whose spotlefs life and charming lays Employ'd the tuneful prelate in thy praise ; Bleft man who now fhall be for ever known , In Sprat's fuccessful labours and thy own . But Milton next ...
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... verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Muse , tune thy verse , with art , to Waller's praife . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate desire : So long shall Waller's strains our ...
... verse ; The courtly Waller next commands thy lays : Muse , tune thy verse , with art , to Waller's praife . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate desire : So long shall Waller's strains our ...
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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.