Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's GeorgicsJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... says he ; • Naxos a hospitable port shall be } To each of you , a joyful home to me . " By ev'ry God , that rules the fea or sky , " The perjur'd villains promise to comply , " And bid me haften to unmoor the ship . " With eager joy I ...
... says he ; • Naxos a hospitable port shall be } To each of you , a joyful home to me . " By ev'ry God , that rules the fea or sky , " The perjur'd villains promise to comply , " And bid me haften to unmoor the ship . " With eager joy I ...
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... says fhe , it shall be so : And , for the fear'd his threats , fhe feign'd to go ; But hid within a covert's neighb'ring green , She kept him ftill in fight , herself unseen . The boy now fancies all the danger o'er , And innocently ...
... says fhe , it shall be so : And , for the fear'd his threats , fhe feign'd to go ; But hid within a covert's neighb'ring green , She kept him ftill in fight , herself unseen . The boy now fancies all the danger o'er , And innocently ...
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... any thing in others ; but Ovid is confeft to have a mixture of both kinds , to have fomething of the best and worst poets , and by confequence to be the faireft fubject for criticism , P. 174. 1. 13. My fon , says he , P. 174 278 NOTES .
... any thing in others ; but Ovid is confeft to have a mixture of both kinds , to have fomething of the best and worst poets , and by confequence to be the faireft fubject for criticism , P. 174. 1. 13. My fon , says he , P. 174 278 NOTES .
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Joseph Addison. P. 174. 1. 13. My fon , says he , & c . ] Phabus's speech is very nobly ushered in , with the Terque quaterque Concutiens Illuftre caput - and well repre- fents the danger and difficulty of the undertak- ing ; but that ...
Joseph Addison. P. 174. 1. 13. My fon , says he , & c . ] Phabus's speech is very nobly ushered in , with the Terque quaterque Concutiens Illuftre caput - and well repre- fents the danger and difficulty of the undertak- ing ; but that ...
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... says Rupit cæleftia Crimina . I fhall conclude this tedious reflexion with an excellent ftroke of this nature out of Mr. Montague's poem to the King ; where he tells us , how the King of France would have been celebrated by his fubjects ...
... says Rupit cæleftia Crimina . I fhall conclude this tedious reflexion with an excellent ftroke of this nature out of Mr. Montague's poem to the King ; where he tells us , how the King of France would have been celebrated by his fubjects ...
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Страница xxx - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught, and led, the way to Heaven...
Страница xxxii - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Страница 65 - 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 87 - While to exalt thy doom, th' aspiring Gaul Shares thy destruction, and adorns thy fall. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Temp'ring each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. Long did he strive th...
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Страница 67 - I've already troubled you too long, Nor dare attempt a more advent'rous song. My humble verse demands a softer theme, A painted mea,dow, or a purling stream ; Unfit for heroes; whom immortal lays, And lines like Virgil's, or like yours, should praise.
Страница 63 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...
Страница 55 - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song. That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
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