The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou ftill the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor sickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd ...
... gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . may'st thou ftill the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor sickness , interrupt thy song : Then may we wondering read , how human limbs Have water'd kingdoms , and diffolv'd ...
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... and fear'd in wars , Inur'd to noon - day fweats , and mid - night cares ! But ftill the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One [ 9 ]
... and fear'd in wars , Inur'd to noon - day fweats , and mid - night cares ! But ftill the God - like man , by fome hard fate , Receives the glory of his toils too late ; Too Too late the verse the mighty act succeeds , One [ 9 ]
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... gods . And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in William's god - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age , Hibernian fields fhall here thy conquests show ...
... gods . And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in William's god - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age , Hibernian fields fhall here thy conquests show ...
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... gods confpire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty East : Algiers and Tunis from their fultry fhore With horror hear the British engines roar , Fain from the neighbouring ...
... gods confpire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty East : Algiers and Tunis from their fultry fhore With horror hear the British engines roar , Fain from the neighbouring ...
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... God - like acts refufe , Ormond the theme of every Oxford Mufe ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chace of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight . Obferve each blow , and keep him still ...
... God - like acts refufe , Ormond the theme of every Oxford Mufe ? Fain would I here his mighty worth proclaim , Attend him in the noble chace of fame , Through all the noise and hurry of the fight . Obferve each blow , and keep him still ...
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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.