The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volum 301790 |
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... o'er , The trumpets fleep , and cannons cease to roar , When every difmal echo is decay'd , And all the thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , aufpicious prince ; and let the Muse In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in ...
... o'er , The trumpets fleep , and cannons cease to roar , When every difmal echo is decay'd , And all the thunder of the battle laid ; Attend , aufpicious prince ; and let the Muse In humble accents milder thoughts infuse . Others , in ...
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... o'er again ; Fir'd , when they hear how Agincourt was ftrow'd With Gallic corps , and Creffi swam in blood , With eager warmth they fight , ambitious all Who firft fhall ftorm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy ...
... o'er again ; Fir'd , when they hear how Agincourt was ftrow'd With Gallic corps , and Creffi swam in blood , With eager warmth they fight , ambitious all Who firft fhall ftorm the breach , or mount the wall . In vain the thronging enemy ...
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... O'er giants cloven down , and monsters kill'd , Reeking in blood , and smear'd with duft and sweat , Whilft angry gods conspire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty East ...
... O'er giants cloven down , and monsters kill'd , Reeking in blood , and smear'd with duft and sweat , Whilft angry gods conspire to make him great . Thy navy rides on feas before unpreft , And strikes a terror through the haughty East ...
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... leader stand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . ! But who can run the British triumphs o'er , 14 ADDISON's POE M S.
... leader stand , Wrath in his look , and lightning in his hand ; Like Homer's Hector when he flung his fire Amidst a thousand ships , and made all Greece retire . ! But who can run the British triumphs o'er , 14 ADDISON's POE M S.
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English poets ! But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames disperst on every shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ? Elfe who could Ormond's God - like acts refuse ...
English poets ! But who can run the British triumphs o'er , And count the flames disperst on every shore ? Who can describe the scatter'd victory , And draw the reader on from fea to fea ? Elfe who could Ormond's God - like acts refuse ...
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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.