The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 23Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found : Well - pleas'd , thy people's loyalty approve , Accept their duty , and enjoy their love . For as , when lately mov'd with fierce delight , You plung'd amidst ...
... dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found : Well - pleas'd , thy people's loyalty approve , Accept their duty , and enjoy their love . For as , when lately mov'd with fierce delight , You plung'd amidst ...
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... dreadfully refound , } And Ætna shakes all o'er , and thunders under ground . Thus , if great things we may with small compare , The bufy fwarms their different labours fhare . Defire of profit urges all degrees ; The aged infects , by ...
... dreadfully refound , } And Ætna shakes all o'er , and thunders under ground . Thus , if great things we may with small compare , The bufy fwarms their different labours fhare . Defire of profit urges all degrees ; The aged infects , by ...
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... dreadful under ground , Then pours out smoke in wreathing curls convolv'd , And fhades the fun's bright orb , and blots out day . Here in the fhelter of the woods we lodg'd , And frighted heard ftrange founds and difmal yells , Nor faw ...
... dreadful under ground , Then pours out smoke in wreathing curls convolv'd , And fhades the fun's bright orb , and blots out day . Here in the fhelter of the woods we lodg'd , And frighted heard ftrange founds and difmal yells , Nor faw ...
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... dreadful courfe , and the proud foe purfuest Infected by the burning Scorpion's heat , The fultry gales round his chaf'd temples beat , Till on the borders of the Maine he finds Defenfive fhadows , and refreshing winds . Our British ...
... dreadful courfe , and the proud foe purfuest Infected by the burning Scorpion's heat , The fultry gales round his chaf'd temples beat , Till on the borders of the Maine he finds Defenfive fhadows , and refreshing winds . Our British ...
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... dreadful entrance keep , Whilft in their wombs ten thousand thunders fleep : Great Churchill owns , charm'd with the glorious fight ,. His march o'er - paid by fuch a promis'd fight . The western fun now shot a feeble ray , And faintly ...
... dreadful entrance keep , Whilft in their wombs ten thousand thunders fleep : Great Churchill owns , charm'd with the glorious fight ,. His march o'er - paid by fuch a promis'd fight . The western fun now shot a feeble ray , And faintly ...
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Æneids æther Afide arms atque beauty behold bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's charms courſe CYCNUS death DECIUS deſcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays feas fecret fhade fhall fhine fhould fight fire firſt fkies foft fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftorm ftreams fubject fuch fure fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf itſelf Jove JUBA juft laſt loft looks LUCIA LUCIUS maid Marcia Marcus mighty moſt Muſe muſt myſelf numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton PHAX pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet Portius praiſe prince profe rage raiſe reft reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome ſcenes SEMPRONIUS ſhall ſhe ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood Syphax tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thunder verfe verſe view'd Virgil virtue Whilft youth САТО
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Página 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Página 295 - 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.
Página 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 41 - 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.
Página 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Página 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Página 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Página 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Página 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.