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Strona 56
... sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes , One grasps a Cecrops in extatic dreams Poor Vadius long with learned spleen devour'd Can taste no pleasure since his shield was scour'd ; And Curio ...
... sacred rust of twice ten hundred years ! To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes , One grasps a Cecrops in extatic dreams Poor Vadius long with learned spleen devour'd Can taste no pleasure since his shield was scour'd ; And Curio ...
Strona 74
... some correc tion a few years afterwards , FRATERNAL rage , the guilty Thebes ' alarms , Th ' alternate reign , destroy'd by impious arms , Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd STATIUS HIS THEBAIS . Thebais of Statius, Book I.
... some correc tion a few years afterwards , FRATERNAL rage , the guilty Thebes ' alarms , Th ' alternate reign , destroy'd by impious arms , Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd STATIUS HIS THEBAIS . Thebais of Statius, Book I.
Strona 75
John Bell. Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd breast , and all the Muse inspires . O Goddess ! say , shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times , Europa's rape , Agenor's stern decree , 5 10 15 And ...
John Bell. Demand our song ; a sacred fury fires My ravish'd breast , and all the Muse inspires . O Goddess ! say , shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times , Europa's rape , Agenor's stern decree , 5 10 15 And ...
Strona 80
... start from rest , And all the furies wake within their breast : 175 Their tortur'd minds repining Envy tears , And Hate , engender'd by suspicious fears ; And sacred thirst of sway ; and all the ties 80 Book I. THEBAIS OF STATIUS .
... start from rest , And all the furies wake within their breast : 175 Their tortur'd minds repining Envy tears , And Hate , engender'd by suspicious fears ; And sacred thirst of sway ; and all the ties 80 Book I. THEBAIS OF STATIUS .
Strona 81
John Bell. And sacred thirst of sway ; and all the ties Of Nature broke ; and royal perjuries ; And impotent desire to reign alone , 180 That scorns the dull reversion of a throne ; Each would the sweets of sov'reign rule devour , While ...
John Bell. And sacred thirst of sway ; and all the ties Of Nature broke ; and royal perjuries ; And impotent desire to reign alone , 180 That scorns the dull reversion of a throne ; Each would the sweets of sov'reign rule devour , While ...
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Strona 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Strona 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
Strona 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Strona 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Strona 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Strona 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Strona 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
Strona 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Strona 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Strona 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.