Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin |
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... they long continued to remain in their original state of neglect and obscurity . At
the infancy of their circulation , and for some years afterwards , they were
overwhelmed in the commotions of faction , the conflict of religious disputation ,
and the ...
... they long continued to remain in their original state of neglect and obscurity . At
the infancy of their circulation , and for some years afterwards , they were
overwhelmed in the commotions of faction , the conflict of religious disputation ,
and the ...
Página iv
He was rather struck with the pastoral mellifluence of its lyric measures , which he
styles a certain Doric delicacy in the fongs and odes , than with its graver and
more majestic tones , with the folemnity and variety of its peculiar vein of original
...
He was rather struck with the pastoral mellifluence of its lyric measures , which he
styles a certain Doric delicacy in the fongs and odes , than with its graver and
more majestic tones , with the folemnity and variety of its peculiar vein of original
...
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... at once interrupted and abandoned ; and have now left to a disappointed
posterity only a few naked outlines , and confused sketches . Instead of b2
embellishing embellishing original tales of chivalry , of clothing the fabulous PRE
FACE . xi.
... at once interrupted and abandoned ; and have now left to a disappointed
posterity only a few naked outlines , and confused sketches . Instead of b2
embellishing embellishing original tales of chivalry , of clothing the fabulous PRE
FACE . xi.
Página xii
embellishing original tales of chivalry , of clothing the fabulous atchievements of
the early British kings and champions in the gorgeous trappings of epic attire , he
wrote smeCTYMNUUS and TETRACHORDON , apologies for fanatical ...
embellishing original tales of chivalry , of clothing the fabulous atchievements of
the early British kings and champions in the gorgeous trappings of epic attire , he
wrote smeCTYMNUUS and TETRACHORDON , apologies for fanatical ...
Página xiv
With Ovid in view , he has an original manner and character of his own , which
exhibit a remarkable perspicuity of contexture , a native facility and Auency . Nor
does his observation of Roman models oppress or destroy our great poet's ...
With Ovid in view , he has an original manner and character of his own , which
exhibit a remarkable perspicuity of contexture , a native facility and Auency . Nor
does his observation of Roman models oppress or destroy our great poet's ...
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Página 265 - The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Página 10 - scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Página 31 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 92 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 43 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 4 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Página 348 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 34 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Página 63 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Página 74 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...