The Works of the English Poets, Том 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Henry's head ; Rais'd the White Rofe , and trampled on the Red : Till Love , triumphing o'er the victor's pride , Brought Mars and Warwick to the conquer'd fide : Neglected Neglected Warwick , ( whofe bold hand , like Fate [ 15 ]
... Henry's head ; Rais'd the White Rofe , and trampled on the Red : Till Love , triumphing o'er the victor's pride , Brought Mars and Warwick to the conquer'd fide : Neglected Neglected Warwick , ( whofe bold hand , like Fate [ 15 ]
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... o'er the waves that taper make On which the hope of all their lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends . The ship at anchor , like a fixed rock , Breaks the proud billows which her large fides knock ; Whose rage ...
... o'er the waves that taper make On which the hope of all their lives depends , As his on that fair Hero's hand extends . The ship at anchor , like a fixed rock , Breaks the proud billows which her large fides knock ; Whose rage ...
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... o'er the drowned Ball : Those towers of oak o'er fertile plains might go , And vifit mountains where they once did grow . The world's reftorer once could not indure , That finish'd Babel fhould thofe men fecure , Whofe pride defign'd ...
... o'er the drowned Ball : Those towers of oak o'er fertile plains might go , And vifit mountains where they once did grow . The world's reftorer once could not indure , That finish'd Babel fhould thofe men fecure , Whofe pride defign'd ...
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... , and outshine them all ? Or on his journey o'er the mountains ride ? — So , when the fair Leucothoë he espy'd , Lewis XIII . K. of France . D. of Buckingham . To To check his steeds impatient Phoebus yearn'd , Though all TO THE QUEEN . 29.
... , and outshine them all ? Or on his journey o'er the mountains ride ? — So , when the fair Leucothoë he espy'd , Lewis XIII . K. of France . D. of Buckingham . To To check his steeds impatient Phoebus yearn'd , Though all TO THE QUEEN . 29.
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... o'er the East : Our England's Prince and Gallia's Dolphin might Like young Rinaldo and Tancredi fight : In fingle combat by their swords again The proud Argantes , and fierce Soldan , flain : Again might we their valiant deeds recite ...
... o'er the East : Our England's Prince and Gallia's Dolphin might Like young Rinaldo and Tancredi fight : In fingle combat by their swords again The proud Argantes , and fierce Soldan , flain : Again might we their valiant deeds recite ...
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Страница 71 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Страница 115 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Страница 115 - To such a tempest as now threatens all, Did not your mighty arm prevent the fall.
Страница 12 - I can assure the reader what would have been, had this edition been delayed. The following poems were got abroad, and in a great many hands ; it were vain to expect that, among so many admirers of Mr.
Страница 94 - Such truth in love as the' antique world did know, In such a style as courts may boast of now; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Страница 7 - Their poetry then was made up almost entirely of monosyllables ; which, when they come together in any cluster, are certainly the most harsh, untuneable things in the world.
Страница 115 - We must resign ! heaven his great soul does claim In storms as loud as his immortal fame ; His dying groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile : About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the air ; so Romulus was lost ! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king. And from obeying fell to worshipping.