The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volumen 301790 |
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... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeasur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rofe , Where crowded ...
... Look after Gallic towns and forts in vain ; No more his wonted marks he can descry , But fees a long unmeasur'd ruin lie ; Whilft , pointing to the naked coast , he shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rofe , Where crowded ...
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... look , Which fuch confufion and amazement struck Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us defcry Mirth in thy brow , and pleafure in thine eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found ...
... look , Which fuch confufion and amazement struck Through Gallic hofts : but , oh ! let us defcry Mirth in thy brow , and pleafure in thine eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a while forget the trumpet's found ...
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... Looks gay , and gliftens in a gilded coat ; But love of ease , and floth in one prevails , That scarce his hanging paunch behind him trails : } The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some 20 ADDISON's POEM S.
... Looks gay , and gliftens in a gilded coat ; But love of ease , and floth in one prevails , That scarce his hanging paunch behind him trails : } The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some 20 ADDISON's POEM S.
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English poets. The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some sparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfome and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits ...
English poets. The people's looks are different as their kings ; Some sparkle bright , and glitter in their wings ; Others look loathfome and difeas'd with floth , Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth Grows dry with heat , and spits ...
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... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and every bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
... looks are thin , Their funeral rites are form'd , and every bee With grief attends the fad folemnity ; The few difeas'd furvivors hang before Their fickly cells , and droop about the door , Or flowly in their hives their limbs unfold ...
Términos y frases comunes
ÆNEID æther againſt amidſt arms atque behold blood bluſhes breaſt Britiſh Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe death DECIUS deſcribed deſcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fhall fhining fide fight fire firft firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftorms ftreams ftrength fubject fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf Jove JUBA laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA MARCUS mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet PORTIUS praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife riſe Roman Rome ſcenes ſee SEMPRONIUS ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtill ſtood ſuch SYPHAX tears thee theſe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder toils verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue Whilft winds wiſh youth
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Página 232 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 338 - ... 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 236 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Página 232 - In foreign realms and lands remote, Supported by Thy care, Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air.
Página 337 - 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 284 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Página 259 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood.
Página 117 - Their stated course, and leave the beaten track. The youth was in a maze, nor did he know Which way to turn the reins, or where to go ; Nor wou'd the horses, had he known, obey.
Página 233 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Página 261 - Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.