Works: Sophonisba. Agamemnon, and Alfred

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A. Millar, 1750
 

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Strona 93 - Shift not thy colour at the found of death ; For death appears not in a dreary light, Seems not a blank to me, a...
Strona 222 - Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds And offices of life ; to life itself, With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose.
Strona 30 - My friend in glory ! thy awaken'd prince Springs at thy noble tale. It fires my foul, And nerves each thought anew ; apt oft perhaps, Too much, too much, to ftacken into love.
Strona 30 - I could, in the most sacred ties, Live out a happy life. But, know that Romans, Their hearts, as well as enemies can conquer ; Then, take her to thy soul ! and with her, take Thy liberty and kingdom. In return, I ask but this — when you behold these eyes, These charms, with transport, be a friend to Rome.
Strona 153 - Where never human foot had mark'd the shore, These ruffians left me — Yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars.
Strona 153 - More desolate at heart, than e'er I felt Before. When Philomela, o'er my head, Began to tune her melancholy strain, As piteous of my woes ; till by degrees, Composing sleep on wounded nature shed A kind but short relief. At early morn, Wak'd by the...
Strona 24 - They burft unguided by the mental eye, The light of reafon, which in various ways Points them to good, or turns them back from ill ! O fave me from the tumult of the...
Strona 30 - Day after day, the still-returning round Of life's mean offices, and sickly joys ; But, in the service of mankind, to be A guardian god below : — Still to employ The mind's brave ardor in heroic aims, Such as may raise us o'er the groveling herd, And make us shine for ever? — That is life.
Strona 17 - Should urge the faithful ponyard to your heart, And glory in the deed. But, while hope lives, Let not the generous die. 'Tis late before The brave defpalr.
Strona 29 - Restrain'd by kind humanity. — At once, He for her parents and her lover call'd. The various scene imagine. How his troops...

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