The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 50Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. A. PO E E M ON THE LAST DAY . IN THREE BOOK S. " Venit fumma dies . " VIRG . VOL . I. B N VERSES TO THE AUTHOR . WOW let the Atheist.
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. A. PO E E M ON THE LAST DAY . IN THREE BOOK S. " Venit fumma dies . " VIRG . VOL . I. B N VERSES TO THE AUTHOR . WOW let the Atheist.
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... book of fate ! ) This hour , for aught all human wisdom knows , Or when ten thousand harvests more have rofe When scenes are chang'd on this revolving earth , Old empires fall , and give new empires birth ; While other Bourbons rule in ...
... book of fate ! ) This hour , for aught all human wisdom knows , Or when ten thousand harvests more have rofe When scenes are chang'd on this revolving earth , Old empires fall , and give new empires birth ; While other Bourbons rule in ...
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... image set to view . 120 125 130 The sparkling eye , the sleek and painted breast , 135 ́The burnish'd scale , curl'd train , and rising crest , All All that is lovely in the noxious fnake , Provokes THE LAST DAY , Book I. 11.
... image set to view . 120 125 130 The sparkling eye , the sleek and painted breast , 135 ́The burnish'd scale , curl'd train , and rising crest , All All that is lovely in the noxious fnake , Provokes THE LAST DAY , Book I. 11.
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... fweep , Or rocks to yawn , compaffionately deep : Seas caft the monster forth to meet his doom , And rocks but prison up for wrath to come . 190 195 So ) So fares a traitor to an earthly crown ; THE LAST DAY , Book I. 13.
... fweep , Or rocks to yawn , compaffionately deep : Seas caft the monster forth to meet his doom , And rocks but prison up for wrath to come . 190 195 So ) So fares a traitor to an earthly crown ; THE LAST DAY , Book I. 13.
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... with terror on their actions past ; Their courage fickens into deep difmay , 250 Their hearts , through fear and anguish , melt away ; 255 Nor Nor tears , nor prayers , the tempest can appease THE LAST DAY , Book I. 15.
... with terror on their actions past ; Their courage fickens into deep difmay , 250 Their hearts , through fear and anguish , melt away ; 255 Nor Nor tears , nor prayers , the tempest can appease THE LAST DAY , Book I. 15.
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Страница 223 - Rome swift thunder flew, And headlong from his throne the tyrant threw : Thrown headlong down, by Rome in triumph led, For this night's deed his perjur'd bosom bled : His brother's ghost each moment made him start, And all his father's anguish rent his heart.
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Страница 110 - Such shining expletives of human kind, Who want, while through blank life they dream along, Sense to be right and passion to be wrong.
Страница 210 - But, fiercer still, the lordly lion stalks, Grimly majestic in his lonely walks ; When round he glares, all living creatures fly; He clears the desert with his rolling eye.
Страница 139 - tis on plenty your poor lovers starve. But with a modern fair, meridian merit Is a fierce thing they call a nymph of spirit. Mark well the rollings of her flaming eye, And tread on tiptoe if you dare draw nigh: 50 "Or if you take a lion by the beard, Or dare defy the fell Hyrcanian pard, Or arm'd rhinoceros, or rough Russian bear," First make your will, and then converse with her.
Страница 221 - Views the pale cheek and the distorted mien ; He drains off life by drops, and, deaf to cries, Examines every spirit as it flies : He studies torment, dives in mortal woe, To rouse up every pang repeats his blow ; Each rising agony, each dreadful grace, Yet warm transplanting to his Saviour's face.
Страница 89 - But found at length that it reduc'd his rent ; His farms were flown ; when, lo ! a sale comes on, A choice collection ! what is to be done ? He sells his last ; for he the whole will buy ; Sells...
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