Poems Attempted in the Style of MiltonJ. and R. Tonson, 1762 - 176 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 48 - Of loving friend delights ; distressed, forlorn, Amidst the horrors of the tedious night, Darkling I sigh, and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or sometimes mournful verse Indite, and sing of groves and myrtle shades, Or desperate lady near a purling stream, Or lover pendent on a willow-tree.
Página 44 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals, and small acid tiff, (Wretched repast!) my meagre corpse sustain: Then solitary walk, or doze at home...
Página 44 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
Página 49 - Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mature, John-apple, nor the downy peach, Nor walnut in rough-furrow'd coat secure, Nor medlar, fruit delicious in decay ; Afflictions great ! yet greater still remain.
Página 35 - And yawning gulfs with flaming vengeance glow, And saints rejoice above, and sinners howl below; Well might he sing the day he could not fear, And paint the glories he was sure to wear.
Página 112 - The prudent will observe, what passions reign In various plants (for not to man alone, But all the wide creation, Nature gave Love, and aversion) everlasting hate The Vine to Ivy bears, nor less abhors The...
Página 67 - Unnumber'd ; well aveng'd, they quit the cares Of mortal life, and drink th' oblivious lake. Not fo the new inhabitants : They roam Erroneous, and difconfolate...
Página 45 - Through sudden fear ; a chilly sweat bedews My shuddering limbs, and (wonderful to tell !) My tongue forgets her faculty of speech ; So horrible he seems...
Página 156 - Obnoxious, dismal death, th' effect of drought ! More happy they, born in Columbus' world, Carybbes, and they, whom the Cotton plant With...
Página 61 - Of guns, and trumpets clang, and folemn found Of drums o'ercame their groans. In equal fcale Long hung the fight, few marks of fear were feen, None of retreat : As when two...