The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... live ; The painted altar , glorious to behold , Shines with delightful blue , and dazzling gold . Here first th ' illustrious three , of heavenly race , Religion , Liberty , and Peace , embrace ; Here joyful crowds their pious thanks ...
... live ; The painted altar , glorious to behold , Shines with delightful blue , and dazzling gold . Here first th ' illustrious three , of heavenly race , Religion , Liberty , and Peace , embrace ; Here joyful crowds their pious thanks ...
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... live together , or together die . When Heaven did at Asteria's birth bestow Those lavish charms , with which she wounds us so , To form her glorious mind , it did inspire A double portion of th ' ethereal fire , That half might ...
... live together , or together die . When Heaven did at Asteria's birth bestow Those lavish charms , with which she wounds us so , To form her glorious mind , it did inspire A double portion of th ' ethereal fire , That half might ...
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... live o'er , You , and my friend , whose absence I deplore , Calm as a gentle brook's unruffled tide Should the delicious flowing minutes glide ; Discharg'd of care , on unfrequented plains , We'd sing of rural joys in rural strains . No ...
... live o'er , You , and my friend , whose absence I deplore , Calm as a gentle brook's unruffled tide Should the delicious flowing minutes glide ; Discharg'd of care , on unfrequented plains , We'd sing of rural joys in rural strains . No ...
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... live rewarded in the tuneful song . Thus Sacharissa shines in Waller's lays , And she , who rais'd his genius , shares his praise . Each does in each a mutual life infuse , Th ' inspiring Beauty , the recording Muse . A CANTATA . SET BY ...
... live rewarded in the tuneful song . Thus Sacharissa shines in Waller's lays , And she , who rais'd his genius , shares his praise . Each does in each a mutual life infuse , Th ' inspiring Beauty , the recording Muse . A CANTATA . SET BY ...
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... live and die , - CHORUS . In winding labyrinths of harmony , Through all the travers'd scale they fly : By turns they rise and fall , by turns we live and dic Ye sons of Art , once more rênew your strains ; In loftier verse , and ...
... live and die , - CHORUS . In winding labyrinths of harmony , Through all the travers'd scale they fly : By turns they rise and fall , by turns we live and dic Ye sons of Art , once more rênew your strains ; In loftier verse , and ...
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Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow Ganymede goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord lov'd Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Phoebus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
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Página 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Página 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
Página 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Página 213 - 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...
Página 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
Página 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Página 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
Página 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...