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Strona xxiii
... lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lover of virtue and of wit it will be so- licitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally preserved by Peck , which I recommend to the consideration ...
... lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lover of virtue and of wit it will be so- licitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally preserved by Peck , which I recommend to the consideration ...
Strona xxxvii
... land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy couldst take , or what repose , In countries so uncivilis'd as those ? Lust , the scorching dog - star , here Rages with immoderate heat ...
... land where thou hast travelled ) Either by savages possest , Or wild , and uninhabited ? What joy couldst take , or what repose , In countries so uncivilis'd as those ? Lust , the scorching dog - star , here Rages with immoderate heat ...
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... Land yield incomparably more poetical va- riety than the voyages of Ulysses or Æneas ? Are the obsolete thread - bare tales of Thebes and Troy half so stored with great , heroical , and supernatural actions 22 AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... Land yield incomparably more poetical va- riety than the voyages of Ulysses or Æneas ? Are the obsolete thread - bare tales of Thebes and Troy half so stored with great , heroical , and supernatural actions 22 AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
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... land he chanc'd to come , He read the men and manners , bringing home Their wisdom , learning , and their piety , As if he went to conquer , not to see . So well he understood the most and best Of tongues , that Babel sent into the West ...
... land he chanc'd to come , He read the men and manners , bringing home Their wisdom , learning , and their piety , As if he went to conquer , not to see . So well he understood the most and best Of tongues , that Babel sent into the West ...
Strona 35
... lands , all Europe had his life , But we in chief ; our country soon was grown A debtor more to him , than he to's own . He pluckt from youth the follies and the crimes , And built up men against the future times ; For deeds of age are ...
... lands , all Europe had his life , But we in chief ; our country soon was grown A debtor more to him , than he to's own . He pluckt from youth the follies and the crimes , And built up men against the future times ; For deeds of age are ...
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Strona 146 - Nor amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn The humble glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And sleep, the lazy owl of night ; Ashamed and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere.
Strona lxiv - Begin the song, and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come, a numerous and well-fitted quire. All hand in hand do decently advance, And to my song with smooth and equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts, how long soe'er it be, My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound.
Strona lxxviii - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Strona 58 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Strona 28 - In a true piece of Wit all things must be, Yet all things there agree. As in the Ark, joyn'd without force or strife, All Creatures dwelt; all Creatures that had Life.
Strona 48 - IT was a dismal and a fearful night: Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling light, When sleep, death's image, left my troubled breast By something liker death possessed.
Strona xxxii - This kind of writing, which was, I believe, borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of very extensive and various knowledge; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.
Strona 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they o'erflow the cup.
Strona lxxxviii - ... buried in impurities as not to pay the cost of their extraction. The diction, being the vehicle of the thoughts, first presents itself to the intellectual eye; and if the first appearance offends, a further knowledge is not often sought. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement, but...
Strona 11 - has been for some years past, though the execution has been accidentally diverted, and does still vehemently continue, to retire myself to some of our American plantations, not to seek for gold, or enrich myself with the...