The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Tom 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... eyes beheld A dying person spurn the sanguine field . Aghast she started back , and shook with pain , As rising breezes curl the trembling main . She gaz'd awhile entranc'd ; but when she found It was her lover weltering on the ground ...
... eyes beheld A dying person spurn the sanguine field . Aghast she started back , and shook with pain , As rising breezes curl the trembling main . She gaz'd awhile entranc'd ; but when she found It was her lover weltering on the ground ...
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... eyes the new - made wound will show . Next , all that dare Love's sovereign power defy , In fetters bound , inglorious shall pass by : All shall submit to thee - Th ' applauding crowd Shall lift their hands , and sing thy praise aloud ...
... eyes the new - made wound will show . Next , all that dare Love's sovereign power defy , In fetters bound , inglorious shall pass by : All shall submit to thee - Th ' applauding crowd Shall lift their hands , and sing thy praise aloud ...
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... eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ! ( As Beauty's goddess once a wound sustain'd , Not from her son , but from a mortal's hand ) Asteria too forgets her sprightly ...
... eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ! ( As Beauty's goddess once a wound sustain'd , Not from her son , but from a mortal's hand ) Asteria too forgets her sprightly ...
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... eyes on this important day , [ away . And Venus from his forehead took the blinding cloth Here Mira pass'd , and fix'd his wondering view , Her perfect shape distinguished praises drew ; Tall , beauteous , and majestic to the sight ...
... eyes on this important day , [ away . And Venus from his forehead took the blinding cloth Here Mira pass'd , and fix'd his wondering view , Her perfect shape distinguished praises drew ; Tall , beauteous , and majestic to the sight ...
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... eyes ; To see , with lively grace , his form express'd , The stately honours of his rising crest , His comely wings , and his soft silky breast ! The leaves of creeping vines around him play , And Nature's leaves less perfect seem than ...
... eyes ; To see , with lively grace , his form express'd , The stately honours of his rising crest , His comely wings , and his soft silky breast ! The leaves of creeping vines around him play , And Nature's leaves less perfect seem than ...
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Strona 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Strona 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Strona 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
Strona 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Strona 213 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Strona 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
Strona 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Strona 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
Strona 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Strona 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...