The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 23Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namur's late terrors and deftruction show , What William , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded fpires , and glitter'd in the sky , An ...
... fires rage most , and loudeft engines play . Namur's late terrors and deftruction show , What William , warm'd with juft revenge , can do : Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded fpires , and glitter'd in the sky , An ...
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... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , And planks , and arms , and men , promifcuous flow'd . Spain's numerous fleet , that perifh'd on our coaft , Could scarce a longer line of battle boaft ; The winds could hardly ...
... fire ; The waves with wide unnumber'd wrecks were ftrow'd , And planks , and arms , and men , promifcuous flow'd . Spain's numerous fleet , that perifh'd on our coaft , Could scarce a longer line of battle boaft ; The winds could hardly ...
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... fire the air they streak , And hurl deftruction round them where they break , The skies with long afcending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Ætna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heaven with ...
... fire the air they streak , And hurl deftruction round them where they break , The skies with long afcending flames are bright , And all the fea reflects a quivering light . Thus Ætna , when in fierce eruptions broke , Fills heaven with ...
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... fire : Nor neighbouring caves return the dying sound , Nor echoing rocks the doubled voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd- When th ' under - world is seiz'd with cold and night , And fummer here defcends in streams of light , The bees ...
... fire : Nor neighbouring caves return the dying sound , Nor echoing rocks the doubled voice rebound . Things thus prepar'd- When th ' under - world is seiz'd with cold and night , And fummer here defcends in streams of light , The bees ...
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... fire , And in a fly fuch generous thoughts inspire . Yet by repeopling their decaying state , } Though seven short springs conclude their vital date , Their ancient stocks eternally remain , And in an endless race their childrens ...
... fire , And in a fly fuch generous thoughts inspire . Yet by repeopling their decaying state , } Though seven short springs conclude their vital date , Their ancient stocks eternally remain , And in an endless race their childrens ...
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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.