The Works of the English Poets: CowleySamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... thee again does live . Loud Olympus happy thee , Ifthmus and Nemea does twice happy fee ; For the well - natur'd honour there , Which with thy brother thou didst share , Was to thee double grown By not being all thine own ; And those ...
... thee again does live . Loud Olympus happy thee , Ifthmus and Nemea does twice happy fee ; For the well - natur'd honour there , Which with thy brother thou didst share , Was to thee double grown By not being all thine own ; And those ...
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... Thee first my song does greet , With numbers smooth and fleet As thine own horfes ' airy feet , When they young Chromius ' chariot drew , And o'er the Nemean race triumphant flew . Jove will approve my fong and me ; Jove is concern'd in ...
... Thee first my song does greet , With numbers smooth and fleet As thine own horfes ' airy feet , When they young Chromius ' chariot drew , And o'er the Nemean race triumphant flew . Jove will approve my fong and me ; Jove is concern'd in ...
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... thee in , When thy lyre's voice fhall but begin ; Joy , plenty , and free welcome , dwells within .. The Tyrian beds ... thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . Chromius and thou art met aright , For , as by nature thou ...
... thee in , When thy lyre's voice fhall but begin ; Joy , plenty , and free welcome , dwells within .. The Tyrian beds ... thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . Chromius and thou art met aright , For , as by nature thou ...
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... thee ! Whatever God did Say , Is all thy plain and smooth uninterrupted ' way ! Nay , ev'n beyond his works thy voyages are known , Thou ' haft thousand worlds too of thine own . Thou speak'ft , great Queen ! in the fame ftyle as He ...
... thee ! Whatever God did Say , Is all thy plain and smooth uninterrupted ' way ! Nay , ev'n beyond his works thy voyages are known , Thou ' haft thousand worlds too of thine own . Thou speak'ft , great Queen ! in the fame ftyle as He ...
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... thee obey . Thou ftop'ft this current , and doft make This running river fettle like a lake ; Thy certain hand holds faft this flippery fnake ! The fruit which does fo quickly wafte ,. Men fcarce can fee it , much leis tafte , Thou ...
... thee obey . Thou ftop'ft this current , and doft make This running river fettle like a lake ; Thy certain hand holds faft this flippery fnake ! The fruit which does fo quickly wafte ,. Men fcarce can fee it , much leis tafte , Thou ...
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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...