The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Strona 159
... Michal he escapes and flies to Naioth , the Prophets ' college at Ramah - Saul's speech , and rage at his escape - A long digression de- scribing the Prophets ' college , and their manner of life there , and the ordinary subjects of ...
... Michal he escapes and flies to Naioth , the Prophets ' college at Ramah - Saul's speech , and rage at his escape - A long digression de- scribing the Prophets ' college , and their manner of life there , and the ordinary subjects of ...
Strona 176
... Michal first an armed troop espies ( So faithful and so quick are loving eyes ! ) Which march'd , and often glister'd , through a wood , That on right - hand of her fair palace stood ; [ kill She saw them ; and cry'd out , " They're ...
... Michal first an armed troop espies ( So faithful and so quick are loving eyes ! ) Which march'd , and often glister'd , through a wood , That on right - hand of her fair palace stood ; [ kill She saw them ; and cry'd out , " They're ...
Strona 178
... reign'd , From Michal's murder their wild rage restrain'd . She ' alleged the holiest chains that bind a wife , Duty and love ; she ' alleged that her own life , Had she refused that safety to her lord , Would 178 B. I. DAVIDEIS .
... reign'd , From Michal's murder their wild rage restrain'd . She ' alleged the holiest chains that bind a wife , Duty and love ; she ' alleged that her own life , Had she refused that safety to her lord , Would 178 B. I. DAVIDEIS .
Strona 219
... Michal - The love between David and Michal his song at her window ; his expedition against the Philistines , and the dowry of two hundred foreskins for Michal , with whom he is married - The so- lemnities of the wedding - Saul's relapse ...
... Michal - The love between David and Michal his song at her window ; his expedition against the Philistines , and the dowry of two hundred foreskins for Michal , with whom he is married - The so- lemnities of the wedding - Saul's relapse ...
Strona 240
... Michal the younger , named ; Both equally for different glories famed . Merab with spacious beauty fill'd the sight , But too much awe chastised the bold delight : Like a calm sea , which to the ' enlarged view Gives pleasure , but ...
... Michal the younger , named ; Both equally for different glories famed . Merab with spacious beauty fill'd the sight , But too much awe chastised the bold delight : Like a calm sea , which to the ' enlarged view Gives pleasure , but ...
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Abishai affright Agrigentum angels Baal beauteous beauty Benaiah bless'd blood bold breast breath bright burning-glass canst Chromius clouds crown cursed danger David death dreadful e'er earth Edom eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fear'd feast fire fix'd flame foreskins friends Gath gentle God's Gods gold Goliah hand happy haste heart heaven honour Israel Joab jointure king light live Love's lovers lyre Michal mighty Moab Moloch move Muse Naioth Nature's ne'er night noble nought numbers o'er Ortygia pain pass'd Pharaoh Pindar pride Prince proud prove rage rich round sacred Saul Saul's scarce seem'd shine sight slain soul sprite stamp'd stars straight strong swift sword tears tell thee Thersander thine things thou dost thou'rt thought thyself trees trembling troops twas Twill tyrant vast verse virtue Whilst wise wonder wondrous wound wretched youth Zippor
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Strona 29 - I could not abstain from renewing my old schoolboy's wish in a copy of verses to the same effect : " Well, then, I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree, &c.
Strona 245 - And, though the moving hand approach not near, Themselves with awful fear A kind of numerous trembling make. Now all thy forces try ; Now all thy charms apply ; Revenge upon her ear the conquests of her eye.
Strona 29 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Strona 51 - Come deflower'd virgins to our bed; Good fortunes without gain imported be, Such mighty custom's paid to thee: For joy, like wine, kept close does better taste: If it take air before, its spirits waste.
Strona 162 - Beneath the' eternal fountain of all waves, Where their vast court the mother-waters keep, And, undisturb'd by moons, in silence sleep...
Strona 123 - I might easily have compassed, as well as some others, who, with no greater probabilities or pretences, have arrived to extraordinary fortunes : but I had before written a shrewd prophecy against myself; and I think Apollo inspired me in the truth, though not in the elegance of it : " Thou neither great at court, nor in the war, Nor at the" exchange shalt be, nor at the wrangling bar ; Content thyself with the small barren praise Which neglected verse does raise, &c.
Strona 30 - tis the way too thither. How happy here should I And one dear She live, and embracing die ! She who is all the world, and can exclude In deserts solitude. I should have then this only fear: Lest men, when they my pleasures see, Should hither throng to live like me. And so make a city here.
Strona 11 - Could they remember but last year, How you did them, they you delight, The sprouting leaves which saw you here, And...
Strona 138 - We grow at last by custom to believe That really we live ; Whilst all these shadows that for things we take, Are but the empty dreams which in death's sleep we make. 3 But these fantastic errors of our dream Lead us to solid wrong ; ' . We pray God our friends
Strona 123 - ... influence. No matter, Cowley ; let proud Fortune see, That thou canst her despise no less than she does thee. Let all her gifts the portion be Of folly, lust, and flattery, Fraud, extortion, calumny, Murder, infidelity, Rebellion and hypocrisy. Do thou nor grieve nor blush to be, As all th' inspired tuneful men, And all thy great forefathers were, from Homer down to Ben.