The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 6. kötetJohn & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - 1157 oldal |
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... like reftlefs billows toft , On this hand gaining what on that he loft , Though in his life he blood and ruin breath'd , To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeath'd And heaven , that seem'd regardless of our fate , THE WORKS OF DRYDEN .
... like reftlefs billows toft , On this hand gaining what on that he loft , Though in his life he blood and ruin breath'd , To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeath'd And heaven , that seem'd regardless of our fate , THE WORKS OF DRYDEN .
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... blood , Their gods difgrac'd , and burnt like common wood . This fet the heathen priesthood in a flame ; For pricfts of all regions are the fame . Of wharfoe'er defcent their godhead be , Stock , ftone , or other homely pedigree , In ...
... blood , Their gods difgrac'd , and burnt like common wood . This fet the heathen priesthood in a flame ; For pricfts of all regions are the fame . Of wharfoe'er defcent their godhead be , Stock , ftone , or other homely pedigree , In ...
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... blood , What may not Ifrael hope , and what applaufe Might fuch a general gain by fuch a caufe ? Not barren praife alone , that gaudy flower Fair only to the fight , but folid power : And nobler is a limited comniand , Given by the love ...
... blood , What may not Ifrael hope , and what applaufe Might fuch a general gain by fuch a caufe ? Not barren praife alone , that gaudy flower Fair only to the fight , but folid power : And nobler is a limited comniand , Given by the love ...
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... blood . Who ever afk'd the witnefs's high race , Whofe oath with martyrdom did Stephen grace ? Ours was a Levite , and as times went then , His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen . Sunk were his eyes , his voice was harsh and loud ...
... blood . Who ever afk'd the witnefs's high race , Whofe oath with martyrdom did Stephen grace ? Ours was a Levite , and as times went then , His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen . Sunk were his eyes , his voice was harsh and loud ...
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... blood and ease , A royal life expos'd to winds and feas , At once contending with the waves and fire , And heading danger in the wars of Tyre , Inglorious now forfakes his native fand , And like an exile quits the promis'd land ! Our ...
... blood and ease , A royal life expos'd to winds and feas , At once contending with the waves and fire , And heading danger in the wars of Tyre , Inglorious now forfakes his native fand , And like an exile quits the promis'd land ! Our ...
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168. oldal - 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. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
264. oldal - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
147. oldal - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
106. oldal - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
41. oldal - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
233. oldal - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
133. oldal - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
215. oldal - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
176. oldal - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.