The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... mighty leaders of their state , Their laws , employments , and their wars relate . A trifling theme provokes my humble lays : Trifling the theme , not fo the poet's praise , If great Apollo and the tuneful Nine Join in the piece , and ...
... mighty leaders of their state , Their laws , employments , and their wars relate . A trifling theme provokes my humble lays : Trifling the theme , not fo the poet's praise , If great Apollo and the tuneful Nine Join in the piece , and ...
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... mighty soul : Each obftinate in arms purfues his blow , Till fhameful flight fecures the routed foe . This hot difpute and all this mighty fray A little duft flung upward will allay . But when bath kings are settled in their hive , Mark ...
... mighty soul : Each obftinate in arms purfues his blow , Till fhameful flight fecures the routed foe . This hot difpute and all this mighty fray A little duft flung upward will allay . But when bath kings are settled in their hive , Mark ...
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... mighty Prince adore ; His life unites them all ; but when he dies , All in loud tumults and diftractions rife ; They waste their honey , and their combs deface , And wild confufion reigns in every place . Him all admire , all the great ...
... mighty Prince adore ; His life unites them all ; but when he dies , All in loud tumults and diftractions rife ; They waste their honey , and their combs deface , And wild confufion reigns in every place . Him all admire , all the great ...
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... mighty fpring works in its root , and cleaves The fprouting ftalk , and fhews itself in leaves ;, The flower itself is of a golden hue , The leaves inclining to a darker blue ; The leaves fhoot thick about the flower , and grow Into a ...
... mighty fpring works in its root , and cleaves The fprouting ftalk , and fhews itself in leaves ;, The flower itself is of a golden hue , The leaves inclining to a darker blue ; The leaves fhoot thick about the flower , and grow Into a ...
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... mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too clofely on the reader press : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us lefs , One glittering thought no fooner ftrikes our eyes . With filent ...
... mighty genius ) wrote , O'er - run with wit , and lavish of his thought : His turns too clofely on the reader press : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us lefs , One glittering thought no fooner ftrikes our eyes . With filent ...
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Aëre æther arms aſk atque behold beſt blood bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe CYCNUS death DECIUS defcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fenate fhall fhining fight fire firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuccefs fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf itſelf Jove JUBA laft laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty moſt muſt myſelf numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet Portius praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome SEMPRONIUS ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtreams Syphax tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder verfe verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue waſte Whilft youth САТО
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Страница 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Страница 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Страница 45 - 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 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Страница 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Страница 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Страница 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Страница 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Страница 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.