Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's GeorgicsJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... last longer than the memory of our friendship , and therefore I thus publicly bequeath them to you , in return for the many valuable inftances of your affection . A 3 That That they may come to you with as little disadvantage.
... last longer than the memory of our friendship , and therefore I thus publicly bequeath them to you , in return for the many valuable inftances of your affection . A 3 That That they may come to you with as little disadvantage.
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... last act was added by the author to the foregoing , which he had kept by him for many years . He took up a design of writing a play upon this fubject , when he was very young at the univerfity , and even attempted fomething in it there ...
... last act was added by the author to the foregoing , which he had kept by him for many years . He took up a design of writing a play upon this fubject , when he was very young at the univerfity , and even attempted fomething in it there ...
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... last obliged him to beg his Majesty's leave to refign . His freedom from the anxiety of business fo far re - eftablished his health , that his friends , began to hope he might last for many years ; but ( whether it were from a life too ...
... last obliged him to beg his Majesty's leave to refign . His freedom from the anxiety of business fo far re - eftablished his health , that his friends , began to hope he might last for many years ; but ( whether it were from a life too ...
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... last words , that duft to duft convey'd ! While speechless o'er thy clofing grave we bend , Accept these tears , thou dear departed friend , Oh gone for - ever , take this long adieu ; And fleep in peace , next thy lov'd Montagu ! To ...
... last words , that duft to duft convey'd ! While speechless o'er thy clofing grave we bend , Accept these tears , thou dear departed friend , Oh gone for - ever , take this long adieu ; And fleep in peace , next thy lov'd Montagu ! To ...
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... last that conquer'd France . What might not England hope , if fuch abroad Purchas'd their country's honour with their blood : When fuch , detain'd at home , fupport our state In WILLIAM's ftead , and bear a kingdom's weight , The ...
... last that conquer'd France . What might not England hope , if fuch abroad Purchas'd their country's honour with their blood : When fuch , detain'd at home , fupport our state In WILLIAM's ftead , and bear a kingdom's weight , The ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
Æneid Aëre æther amidſt arms atque BAROMETRI bleft bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus caft courfe courſe Cycnus defcription diftant eaſe ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fecret feven fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fince fire firft firſt fkies flain fome fong foul fpring ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fuci Gaul Georgic goddeſs Gods Gulfton heav'n herſelf himſelf itſelf Jove laft laſt loft maid mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt neighb'ring Nimbis numbers Nunc nymph o'er omne Ovid Ovid's paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure poem poet purſue Quæ rage raiſe reft rife rifu riſe round ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhow ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtill ſtood ſtory ſtreams thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thunder transform'd turba verfe verſe view'd Virgil Whilft whofe winds woods wou'd youth
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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...
Страница 87 - That proudly set thee on a fancy'd throne, And made imaginary realms thy own ! Thy troops, that now behind the Danube join, .Shall...
Страница 304 - ... to a bee than to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the...
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.
Страница xl - How thy own laurel firft began to grow ; How wild Lycaon, chang'd by angry Gods, And frighted at himfelf, ran howling thro