The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... sword , Behold with what refiftlefs force he falls On towns befieg`d , and thunders , at thy walls ! Ask Villeroy , ( for Villeroy beheld The town furrender'd , and the treaty feal'd ) With what amazing ftrength the forts were won ...
... sword , Behold with what refiftlefs force he falls On towns befieg`d , and thunders , at thy walls ! Ask Villeroy , ( for Villeroy beheld The town furrender'd , and the treaty feal'd ) With what amazing ftrength the forts were won ...
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... 'd , And unobferv'd in wild Meanders play'd ; Till by your lines and Naffau's sword renown'd , Its rifing billows through the world refound , Where'er Where'er the Hero's godlike acts can pierce , Or where LETTER FROM ITALY . 41.
... 'd , And unobferv'd in wild Meanders play'd ; Till by your lines and Naffau's sword renown'd , Its rifing billows through the world refound , Where'er Where'er the Hero's godlike acts can pierce , Or where LETTER FROM ITALY . 41.
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... sword and fire o'erturn'd Neptunian Troy , " And laid the labour of the Gods in duft ; " For which , if fo the fad offence deferves , " Plung'd in the deep , for ever let me lie " Whelm'd under feas ; if death must be my doom , " Let ...
... sword and fire o'erturn'd Neptunian Troy , " And laid the labour of the Gods in duft ; " For which , if fo the fad offence deferves , " Plung'd in the deep , for ever let me lie " Whelm'd under feas ; if death must be my doom , " Let ...
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... sword she lies , Her harvests for uncertain owners rife , Each vineyard doubtful of its mafter grows , And to the victor's bowl each vintage flows . The difcontented fhades of flaughter'd hofts , That wander'd on her banks , her heroes ...
... sword she lies , Her harvests for uncertain owners rife , Each vineyard doubtful of its mafter grows , And to the victor's bowl each vintage flows . The difcontented fhades of flaughter'd hofts , That wander'd on her banks , her heroes ...
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... sword , Nor feek the fortunes of a happier lord , Their raging King diflionours , to compleat Marlborough's great work , and finish the defeat . From Memminghen's high domes , and Augsburg's walls , The distant battle drives th ...
... sword , Nor feek the fortunes of a happier lord , Their raging King diflionours , to compleat Marlborough's great work , and finish the defeat . From Memminghen's high domes , and Augsburg's walls , The distant battle drives th ...
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Página 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Página 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.