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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... once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas warm Britannia's youth , In arms to glory , and in love to truth ! Oh ! if the Muse of future aught presage ...
... once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas warm Britannia's youth , In arms to glory , and in love to truth ! Oh ! if the Muse of future aught presage ...
Strona 13
... once more embark'd , propitious gales Blow fresh from shore , and fill his hollow sails . As when the golden god , that rules the day , Drives down his flaming chariot to the sea , And leaves the nations here involv'd in night , To ...
... once more embark'd , propitious gales Blow fresh from shore , and fill his hollow sails . As when the golden god , that rules the day , Drives down his flaming chariot to the sea , And leaves the nations here involv'd in night , To ...
Strona 14
... once did fly , Resolv'd t'o'ercome , or resolute to die , Thro ' trampled heaps of slain they rush to victory . Earth trembles at the charge ; Death , Blood , and Insatiate riot all the murderous day ; Nor night itself their fury can ...
... once did fly , Resolv'd t'o'ercome , or resolute to die , Thro ' trampled heaps of slain they rush to victory . Earth trembles at the charge ; Death , Blood , and Insatiate riot all the murderous day ; Nor night itself their fury can ...
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... once again review The numerous worthies of the line . See , like immortals , how they shine ! Each life a history alone ! And last , to crown the great design , Look forward , and behold them all in one ' Look , but spare thy fruitless ...
... once again review The numerous worthies of the line . See , like immortals , how they shine ! Each life a history alone ! And last , to crown the great design , Look forward , and behold them all in one ' Look , but spare thy fruitless ...
Strona 18
... once he saw , his honour'd banks around ? Scarce are their silent ruins found ; But , in th ' ensuing age , Trampled into common ground , [ ing rage . Will hide the horrid monuments of Gaul's destroy- All Europe too had shar'd this ...
... once he saw , his honour'd banks around ? Scarce are their silent ruins found ; But , in th ' ensuing age , Trampled into common ground , [ ing rage . Will hide the horrid monuments of Gaul's destroy- All Europe too had shar'd this ...
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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!
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