The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Whose balms renew the limbs to labours of the day , Care fhuns thy foft approach , and fullen flies away ! Adorn a dream , expreffing human form , The shape of him who suffer'd in the storm , And fend it flitting to the Trachin court ...
... Whose balms renew the limbs to labours of the day , Care fhuns thy foft approach , and fullen flies away ! Adorn a dream , expreffing human form , The shape of him who suffer'd in the storm , And fend it flitting to the Trachin court ...
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... whose actions roll On meaner thoughts , and things devoid of foul ; Earth , fruits , and flowers , he reprefents in dreams , And folid rocks unmov'd , and running fireams : These three to kings and chiefs their feenes difplay , The reft ...
... whose actions roll On meaner thoughts , and things devoid of foul ; Earth , fruits , and flowers , he reprefents in dreams , And folid rocks unmov'd , and running fireams : These three to kings and chiefs their feenes difplay , The reft ...
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... ( Whose beauty tempted Jove to steal the boy ) , And Priam , hapless prince ! who fell with Troy : Himself was Hector's brother , and ( had fate But given this hopeful youth a longer date ) Perhaps had rival'd warlike Hector's worth ...
... ( Whose beauty tempted Jove to steal the boy ) , And Priam , hapless prince ! who fell with Troy : Himself was Hector's brother , and ( had fate But given this hopeful youth a longer date ) Perhaps had rival'd warlike Hector's worth ...
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... Whose building had his hands divine employ'd : Not fo the feer ; who knew , and known forefhow'd , The virgin Phoebe with a virgin's blood Muft first be reconcil'd ; the common caufe Prevail'd ; and , pity yielding to the laws , Fair ...
... Whose building had his hands divine employ'd : Not fo the feer ; who knew , and known forefhow'd , The virgin Phoebe with a virgin's blood Muft first be reconcil'd ; the common caufe Prevail'd ; and , pity yielding to the laws , Fair ...
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... Whose body not a thousand swords could bore . Cæneus , in courage , and in ftrength , excell'd , And ftill his Othrys ' with his fame is fill'd : But what did most his martial deeds adorn , ( Though fince he chang'd his sex ) a woman ...
... Whose body not a thousand swords could bore . Cæneus , in courage , and in ftrength , excell'd , And ftill his Othrys ' with his fame is fill'd : But what did most his martial deeds adorn , ( Though fince he chang'd his sex ) a woman ...
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Página 301 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Página 301 - And always in extreme. Now with a noiseless gentle course It keeps within the middle bed.; . Anon it lifts aloft the head, And bears down all before it with impetuous force : And trunks of trees come rolling down...
Página 252 - I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is, the maintaining the character of an author, which distinguishes him from all others, and makes him appear that individual poet whom you would interpret.
Página 301 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Página 77 - Immortal offspring of my brother Jove ; My brightest nephew, and whom best I love, Whose hands were join'd with mine, to raise the...
Página 55 - I can fpare, As only decorations of the war : So Mars is arm'd for glory, not for need. 'Tis fomewhat more from Neptune to proceed,.
Página 297 - Let him alone, with what he made, To toss and turn the world below; At his...
Página 133 - em twinkling up in air. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have: But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Página 162 - O you pow'rs above, How rude I am in all the arts of love! My hand is yet untaught to write to men: This is th...
Página 305 - His children and his family, And order all things till he come, Sweaty and...