A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volumen 1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1755 |
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... laws , To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal fcales the rival kings : Her gen'rous fons in choiceft gifts abound , Alike in arms , alike in arts renown'd . As when sweet Venus ( so the fable fings ) Awak'd by ...
... laws , To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal fcales the rival kings : Her gen'rous fons in choiceft gifts abound , Alike in arms , alike in arts renown'd . As when sweet Venus ( so the fable fings ) Awak'd by ...
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... laws : Who conquers , wins by brutal ftrength the prize ; But ' tis a godlike work to civilize . Have we forgot how from great Ruffia's throne , The king , whose pow'r half Europe's regions own , Whose scepter waving , with one shout ...
... laws : Who conquers , wins by brutal ftrength the prize ; But ' tis a godlike work to civilize . Have we forgot how from great Ruffia's throne , The king , whose pow'r half Europe's regions own , Whose scepter waving , with one shout ...
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... laws divine ! Well bought with all that those sweet regions hold , With groves of spices , and with mines of gold . Fearless our merchant now pursues his gain , And roams fecurely o'er the boundless main . Now o'er his head the polar ...
... laws divine ! Well bought with all that those sweet regions hold , With groves of spices , and with mines of gold . Fearless our merchant now pursues his gain , And roams fecurely o'er the boundless main . Now o'er his head the polar ...
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... laws , With holy zeal the facred work begin , To bend the ftubborn , and the meek to win . Our Oxford's earl in careful thought shall stand , To raise his Queen , and fave a finking land . The wealthiest glebe to rav'nous Spaniards ...
... laws , With holy zeal the facred work begin , To bend the ftubborn , and the meek to win . Our Oxford's earl in careful thought shall stand , To raise his Queen , and fave a finking land . The wealthiest glebe to rav'nous Spaniards ...
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... laws , To growing bards his learned aid shall send , The ftricteft critick , and the kindest friend . Ev'n mine , a bashful muse , whose rude essays Scarce hope for pardon , not afpire to praise , Cherish'd by you in time may grow to ...
... laws , To growing bards his learned aid shall send , The ftricteft critick , and the kindest friend . Ev'n mine , a bashful muse , whose rude essays Scarce hope for pardon , not afpire to praise , Cherish'd by you in time may grow to ...
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Página 285 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 223 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 256 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Página 200 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Página 254 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair ; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from finger wet the letters fair ; The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high atchievements does declare-; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been, Kens the forthcoming rod ; — unpleasing sight, I ween.
Página 208 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 25 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
Página 195 - Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black, a courtier white; Explain their country's dear-bought rights away, And plead for pirates in the face of day; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth, And lend a lie the confidence of truth.
Página 251 - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere: For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did that title love.
Página 145 - Annuity securely made, A farm some twenty miles from town, Small, tight, salubrious, and my own: Two maids, that never saw the town, A...