The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two CantosLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, etc., etc., Originally published as an ode.-Pref., 1823 - 286 páginas |
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... Taste , at once unite , Whate'er the theme on which the prophets write ! Not polish'd Greece , nor proud Imperial Rome , Can boast such " writings " as thy hallowed Tome . We need not shrink thy splendid sons to place Beside the ...
... Taste , at once unite , Whate'er the theme on which the prophets write ! Not polish'd Greece , nor proud Imperial Rome , Can boast such " writings " as thy hallowed Tome . We need not shrink thy splendid sons to place Beside the ...
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... taste of cold Misanthropy ! The wretch abandon'd that regales on thee , Like the gaunt tiger that once tastes the blood Of man , insatiate , loathes all other food ; As if no sanguine carnage could allay That panting thirst , but ...
... taste of cold Misanthropy ! The wretch abandon'd that regales on thee , Like the gaunt tiger that once tastes the blood Of man , insatiate , loathes all other food ; As if no sanguine carnage could allay That panting thirst , but ...
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... taste , Our land , with shameless blasphemies , lay waste ! Suppress those impious , tho ' enchanting , lines , That curse our children , and our peaceful shrines ! Albion shall vibrate to thine honour'd name , Nor deem one virtue could ...
... taste , Our land , with shameless blasphemies , lay waste ! Suppress those impious , tho ' enchanting , lines , That curse our children , and our peaceful shrines ! Albion shall vibrate to thine honour'd name , Nor deem one virtue could ...
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... taste . The antiquarian in Poetry will derive great gratification from " Ellis's Specimens . " In these Notes nothing more is attempted than the criticisms of the Bar- diad required . From the great Epic Poets , particularly , extracts ...
... taste . The antiquarian in Poetry will derive great gratification from " Ellis's Specimens . " In these Notes nothing more is attempted than the criticisms of the Bar- diad required . From the great Epic Poets , particularly , extracts ...
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... taste thy charms , Who wake to labour , liberty , and love . But still thy opiate aid thou dost deny To calm the anxious breast , to close the streaming eye . " " But darker now grows life's unhappy day , Dark 80 NOTES .
... taste thy charms , Who wake to labour , liberty , and love . But still thy opiate aid thou dost deny To calm the anxious breast , to close the streaming eye . " " But darker now grows life's unhappy day , Dark 80 NOTES .
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Página 190 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Go<J of Jacob : (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel...
Página 201 - Who can count the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth part of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his...
Página 187 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 176 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Página 175 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Página 196 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal : neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Página 190 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Página 100 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Página 136 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 194 - Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as a heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.