The Works of the English Poets: CowleySamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Gods on high , She ' enjoys fecure their company ; Plays with lightnings as they fly , Nor trembles at the bright embraces of the Deity . But death did them from future dangers free ; What God , alas ! will caution be For living man's ...
... Gods on high , She ' enjoys fecure their company ; Plays with lightnings as they fly , Nor trembles at the bright embraces of the Deity . But death did them from future dangers free ; What God , alas ! will caution be For living man's ...
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... Gods do that of Styx prophane ) , Swear , in no city e'er before , A better man , or greater - foul'd , was born ; Swear , that Theron fure has fworn No man near him fhould be poor ; Swear , that none e'er had fuch a graceful art ...
... Gods do that of Styx prophane ) , Swear , in no city e'er before , A better man , or greater - foul'd , was born ; Swear , that Theron fure has fworn No man near him fhould be poor ; Swear , that none e'er had fuch a graceful art ...
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... Gods do love ? ' Tis them alone the Muse too does approve . Lo ! how it makes this victory shine O'er all the fruitful ifle of Proferpine ! The torches which the mother brought When the ravifh'd maid she fought , Appear'd not half fo ...
... Gods do love ? ' Tis them alone the Muse too does approve . Lo ! how it makes this victory shine O'er all the fruitful ifle of Proferpine ! The torches which the mother brought When the ravifh'd maid she fought , Appear'd not half fo ...
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... Gods fhould owe To their great offspring here below ; And how his club fhould there outdo Apollo's filver bow , and his own father's thunder too . And that the grateful Gods , at last , The race of his laborious virtue past , Heaven ...
... Gods fhould owe To their great offspring here below ; And how his club fhould there outdo Apollo's filver bow , and his own father's thunder too . And that the grateful Gods , at last , The race of his laborious virtue past , Heaven ...
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... Gods he fings , In a no lefs immortal strain , Or the great acts of God - defcended kings , Who in his numbers ftill furvive and reign ; Each rich - embroider'd line , Which their triumphant brows around , By his facred hand is bound ...
... Gods he fings , In a no lefs immortal strain , Or the great acts of God - defcended kings , Who in his numbers ftill furvive and reign ; Each rich - embroider'd line , Which their triumphant brows around , By his facred hand is bound ...
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Страница 366 - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Страница 279 - ... a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our...
Страница 365 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me from being scandalous or remarkable on the defective side.
Страница 368 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Страница 294 - Behold the original and primitive nobility of all those great persons who are too proud now not only to till the ground, but almost to tread upon it. We may talk what we please of...
Страница 367 - This only grant me ; that my means may lie . Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Страница 270 - ... with so much knowledge and love of piety and philosophy (that is, of the study of God's laws, and of his creatures) as may afford him matter enough never to be idle, though without business ; and never to be melancholy, though without sin or vanity.
Страница 279 - ... to learning and books for fresh supplies, so that the solitary life will grow indigent, and be ready to starve, without them; but if once we be thoroughly engaged in the love of letters, instead of being wearied with the length of any day, we shall only complain of the shortness of our whole life. "O vita, stulto longa, sapienti brevis...
Страница 290 - Rome to be made consuls and dictators ; the reason of which I conceive to be from an evil custom, now grown as strong among us as if it were a law, which is, that no men put their children to be bred up apprentices in agriculture, as in other trades, but such who are so poor, that, when they come to be men, they have not...
Страница 231 - And one man then, by maliciously opening all the sluices that he can come at, can never be the sole author of all this (though he may be as guilty as if really he were, by intending and imagining to be so); but it is God that breaks up the flood-gates of so general a deluge, and all the art then, and industry of mankind, is not sufficient to raise up dikes and ramparts against it. In such a time it was, as this, that not all the wisdom and power of the Roman...