The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volum 301790 |
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Side 6
... show How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'ft thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy fong ...
... show How thy own laurel first began to grow : How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O may'ft thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor fickness , interrupt thy fong ...
Side 10
... show , And Boyne be fung , when it has ceas'd to flow ; Here Gallic labours fhall advance thy fame , And here Seneffe shall wear another name . Our late pofterity , with fecret dread , Shall view thy battles , and with pleasure read How ...
... show , And Boyne be fung , when it has ceas'd to flow ; Here Gallic labours fhall advance thy fame , And here Seneffe shall wear another name . Our late pofterity , with fecret dread , Shall view thy battles , and with pleasure read How ...
Side 11
... show , What William , warm'd with just revenge , can do : Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded spires , and glitter'd in the sky , An undistinguish'd heap of duft is found , And all the pile lies fmoking on the ...
... show , What William , warm'd with just revenge , can do : Where once a thousand turrets rais'd on high Their gilded spires , and glitter'd in the sky , An undistinguish'd heap of duft is found , And all the pile lies fmoking on the ...
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... shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rofe , Where crowded citizens he lately view'd , And fingles out the place where once St. Maloes flood . Here Ruffel's actions should my Muse require ; And , would my ftrength but ...
... shows His wondering mates where towns and steeples rofe , Where crowded citizens he lately view'd , And fingles out the place where once St. Maloes flood . Here Ruffel's actions should my Muse require ; And , would my ftrength but ...
Side 38
... show The best of critics , and of poets too . Nor , Denham , must we e'er forget thy ftrains , While Cooper's Hill commands the neighbouring plains . But fee where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in ...
... show The best of critics , and of poets too . Nor , Denham , must we e'er forget thy ftrains , While Cooper's Hill commands the neighbouring plains . But fee where artful Dryden next appears , Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in ...
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ÆNEID æther againſt amidſt arms atque behold blood bluſhes breaſt Britiſh Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe death DECIUS deſcribed deſcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fhall fhining fide fight fire firft firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftorms ftreams ftrength fubject fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf Jove JUBA laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA MARCUS mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet PORTIUS praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife riſe Roman Rome ſcenes ſee SEMPRONIUS ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtill ſtood ſuch SYPHAX tears thee theſe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder toils verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue Whilft winds wiſh youth
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Side 232 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Side 338 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Side 236 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Side 232 - In foreign realms and lands remote, Supported by Thy care, Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air.
Side 337 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Side 284 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Side 259 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood.
Side 117 - Their stated course, and leave the beaten track. The youth was in a maze, nor did he know Which way to turn the reins, or where to go ; Nor wou'd the horses, had he known, obey.
Side 233 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Side 261 - Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.