The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Strona 7
... e'er did know . Music of sighs thou shalt not hear , Nor drink one wretched lover's tasteful tear : Nay , unless soon thou woundest me , My verses shall not only wound , but murder , thee . THE THRALDOM . I CAME , I saw , and was undone ...
... e'er did know . Music of sighs thou shalt not hear , Nor drink one wretched lover's tasteful tear : Nay , unless soon thou woundest me , My verses shall not only wound , but murder , thee . THE THRALDOM . I CAME , I saw , and was undone ...
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... e'er declare They've seen a second thing that's fair ; Or ears , that they have music found , Besides thy voice , in any sound ; If my taste do ever meet , After thy kiss , with aught that's sweet ; If my abused touch allow Aught to be ...
... e'er declare They've seen a second thing that's fair ; Or ears , that they have music found , Besides thy voice , in any sound ; If my taste do ever meet , After thy kiss , with aught that's sweet ; If my abused touch allow Aught to be ...
Strona 24
... e'er come to me , That tastes of any thing but thee ; If any sorrow touch my mind , Whilst you are well , and not unkind ; If I a minute's space debate , Whether I shall curse and hate The things beneath thy hatred fall , Though all the ...
... e'er come to me , That tastes of any thing but thee ; If any sorrow touch my mind , Whilst you are well , and not unkind ; If I a minute's space debate , Whether I shall curse and hate The things beneath thy hatred fall , Though all the ...
Strona 30
... e'er but did deserve His master should believe that he does serve ; And I'll ask no more wages , though I starve . " Tis no luxurious diet this , and sure I shall not by ' t too lusty prove ; Yet shall it willingly endure , If ' t can ...
... e'er but did deserve His master should believe that he does serve ; And I'll ask no more wages , though I starve . " Tis no luxurious diet this , and sure I shall not by ' t too lusty prove ; Yet shall it willingly endure , If ' t can ...
Strona 31
... e'er was haunted so ! ) Still , still , methinks , thy face I view , And still thy shape does me pursue , As if , not you me , but I had murder'd you . From books I strive some remedy to take , But thy name all the letters make ; Whate ...
... e'er was haunted so ! ) Still , still , methinks , thy face I view , And still thy shape does me pursue , As if , not you me , but I had murder'd you . From books I strive some remedy to take , But thy name all the letters make ; Whate ...
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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.