Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Tom 4John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 |
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... Queen Anne's reign were celebrated by the poets on both sides ; and Prior sung the victories of Blenheim and Ramilies he afterwards , however , joined in the attack of the great general who had been his theme 2 PRIOR .
... Queen Anne's reign were celebrated by the poets on both sides ; and Prior sung the victories of Blenheim and Ramilies he afterwards , however , joined in the attack of the great general who had been his theme 2 PRIOR .
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... side his horn he wears . Still to the glade , where she has bent her way , With knowing skill he drives the future prey ; Bids her decline the hill , and shun the brake ; And shows the path her steed may safest take ; Directs her spear ...
... side his horn he wears . Still to the glade , where she has bent her way , With knowing skill he drives the future prey ; Bids her decline the hill , and shun the brake ; And shows the path her steed may safest take ; Directs her spear ...
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... side . Though my inferior strength may not allow That I should bear or draw the warrior bow ; With ready hand I will the shaft supply , And joy to see thy victor arrows fly . Touch'd in the battle by the hostile reed , Should'st thou ...
... side . Though my inferior strength may not allow That I should bear or draw the warrior bow ; With ready hand I will the shaft supply , And joy to see thy victor arrows fly . Touch'd in the battle by the hostile reed , Should'st thou ...
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... side dependent to thy feet , Arm their chaste beauties with a modest pride , And double every charm they seek to hide . Th ' ambrosial plenty of thy shining hair , Cropt off and lost , scarce lower than thy ear Shall stand uncouth : a ...
... side dependent to thy feet , Arm their chaste beauties with a modest pride , And double every charm they seek to hide . Th ' ambrosial plenty of thy shining hair , Cropt off and lost , scarce lower than thy ear Shall stand uncouth : a ...
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... , with stiff embroidery shining , Looks charming with a slighter lining ; The out- , if Indian figure stain , The in - side must be rich and plain . So you great authors have thought fit To make digression 48 CANTO II . PRIOR .
... , with stiff embroidery shining , Looks charming with a slighter lining ; The out- , if Indian figure stain , The in - side must be rich and plain . So you great authors have thought fit To make digression 48 CANTO II . PRIOR .
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Strona 112 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Strona 86 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Strona 253 - Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look ; Her head was crown'd with willows, That trembled o'er the brook.
Strona 146 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Strona 262 - And from the deep-mouth'd thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath ; She hears the near advance of death; She doubles to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round, Till, fainting in the public way, Half dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appear'd in view ! " Let me (says she) your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
Strona 145 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Strona 186 - Euphelia's toilet lay ; When Chloe noted her desire, That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise ; But with my numbers mix my sighs : And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes. Fair Chloe blushed : Euphelia frowned : I sung and gazed : I played and trembled : And Venus to the Loves around Remarked, how ill we all dissembled.
Strona 263 - The Goat remarked her pulse was high, Her languid head, her heavy eye; "My back," says he, "may do you harm; The Sheep's at hand, and wool is warm.
Strona 112 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Strona 111 - 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...