The Works of the English Poets: AkensideH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... ancient and fimple one of the first Grecian poets , as it is refined by Virgil in the Georgics , and the familiar epiftolary way of Horace . This latter has feveral advantages . It admits of a greater variety of stile ; it more readily ...
... ancient and fimple one of the first Grecian poets , as it is refined by Virgil in the Georgics , and the familiar epiftolary way of Horace . This latter has feveral advantages . It admits of a greater variety of stile ; it more readily ...
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... ancient Pan : while round their choral fleps Young Hours and genial Gales with conftant hand Shower'd bloffoms , odours , fhower'd ambrofial dews , And fpring's Elyfian bloom . Her flowery store 305 To thee nor Tempe fhall refufe ; nor ...
... ancient Pan : while round their choral fleps Young Hours and genial Gales with conftant hand Shower'd bloffoms , odours , fhower'd ambrofial dews , And fpring's Elyfian bloom . Her flowery store 305 To thee nor Tempe fhall refufe ; nor ...
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... ancient honour , or , in a & t ferene , Yet watchful , raises the majestic fword Of public power , from dark ambition's reach 565 To guard the facred volume of the laws . Genius of ancient Greece ! whofe faithful fteps Well - Genius ...
... ancient honour , or , in a & t ferene , Yet watchful , raises the majestic fword Of public power , from dark ambition's reach 565 To guard the facred volume of the laws . Genius of ancient Greece ! whofe faithful fteps Well - Genius ...
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Samuel Johnson. Genius of ancient Greece ! whofe faithful fteps Well - pleas'd I follow through the facred paths Of nature and of feience ; nurse divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praife 570 ...
Samuel Johnson. Genius of ancient Greece ! whofe faithful fteps Well - pleas'd I follow through the facred paths Of nature and of feience ; nurse divine Of all heroic deeds and fair defires ! O ! let the breath of thy extended praife 570 ...
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... ancient wifdom ! while I join Thy name , thrice honour'd ! with the immortal praise Of nature , while to my compatriot youth I point the high example of thy fons , And tune to Attic themes the British lyre . THE END OF BOOK THE FIRST ...
... ancient wifdom ! while I join Thy name , thrice honour'd ! with the immortal praise Of nature , while to my compatriot youth I point the high example of thy fons , And tune to Attic themes the British lyre . THE END OF BOOK THE FIRST ...
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Страница 51 - At length may learn what energy the hand Of Virtue mingles in the bitter tide 680 Of Paffion fwelling with Diftrefs and Pain, To mitigate the fharp with gracious drops Of cordial Pleafure? Afk the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; fo often draws
Страница 23 - Amid the croud of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove 495 When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and fhook his crimfon fteel, And bade the father of his country, hail ! For lo ! the tyrant proftrate on the duft, And Rome again is free ! Is aught
Страница 72 - The arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And ocean, groaning from his loweft bed, Heaves his tempeftuous billows to the fky; Amid the mighty uproar, while below - 555 The nations tremble, Shakefpeare looks abroad From fome high
Страница 321 - arms And ftern with conqueft, from their tyrant king (Then render'd tame) did challenge and fecure The charter of thy freedom. Pafs not on Till thou haft blefs'd their memory, and paid Thofe thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy fons
Страница 118 - was beauty fent from heaven, The lovely miniftrefs of truth and good In this dark world. For truth and good are one; And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her 435 With like participation. Wherefore then, O
Страница 10 - others by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What healing virtue fwells the tender veins Of herbs and flowers ; or what the beams of morn Draw forth, diftilling from the clifted rind 95 In balmy tears. But fome, to higher hopes Were deftin'd
Страница 12 - Say, why was man fo eminently rais'd Amid the vaft creation; why ordain'd Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the omnipotent might fend him forth
Страница 318 - was old Chaucer. Such the placid mien *•* Of him who firft with harmony inform'd The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. Thefe ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He fang ; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life
Страница 74 - he tells the heart, 625 He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being ; to he great like him, Beneficent and
Страница 73 - hour fheds tribute from her wings ; And ftill new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze , Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The