The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, HamiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... tell How much he lov'd his Greece , how great he fell . His arm how dreadful , how compos'd his mien ! Fierce as a god , and as a god serene . To find his deeds immortal as his soul ! To shine above each patriot's honour'd name ...
... tell How much he lov'd his Greece , how great he fell . His arm how dreadful , how compos'd his mien ! Fierce as a god , and as a god serene . To find his deeds immortal as his soul ! To shine above each patriot's honour'd name ...
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... tell , The daughters of Eurynome and Jove , Thalia and her sister - Graces cool Their glowing features , at the noontide hour , Farewel ! But come , Urania , from thy bow'rs Of everlasting day ; O condescend To lead thy votary ( with ...
... tell , The daughters of Eurynome and Jove , Thalia and her sister - Graces cool Their glowing features , at the noontide hour , Farewel ! But come , Urania , from thy bow'rs Of everlasting day ; O condescend To lead thy votary ( with ...
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... tell ! ) Evanishes at crowing of the cock , tell ! W The new - made widow , too , I've sometimes ' spy'd , Sad sight ! slow moving o'er the prostrate dead : Listless , she crawls along in doleful black , While bursts of sorrow gush from ...
... tell ! ) Evanishes at crowing of the cock , tell ! W The new - made widow , too , I've sometimes ' spy'd , Sad sight ! slow moving o'er the prostrate dead : Listless , she crawls along in doleful black , While bursts of sorrow gush from ...
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... tell us why this waste , Why this ado in earthing up a carcase That's fall'n into disgrace , and in the nostril Smells horrible ? -Ye undertakers , tell us , ' Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit , Why is the principal conceal'd ...
... tell us why this waste , Why this ado in earthing up a carcase That's fall'n into disgrace , and in the nostril Smells horrible ? -Ye undertakers , tell us , ' Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit , Why is the principal conceal'd ...
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... tell his ails to passers by . [ change ; Great man of language ! -Whence this mighty This dumb despair , and drooping of the head ? Tho ' strong persuasion hung upon thy lip , And sly insinuation's softer arts In ambush lay about thy ...
... tell his ails to passers by . [ change ; Great man of language ! -Whence this mighty This dumb despair , and drooping of the head ? Tho ' strong persuasion hung upon thy lip , And sly insinuation's softer arts In ambush lay about thy ...
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Página 138 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 139 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 46 - Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Página 138 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 138 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 137 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 138 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Página 53 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.
Página 138 - Th" applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 216 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.