The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... gives the preference to Philips . The design of aggrandizing himself he disguised with such dex- terity , that , though Addison discovered it , Steele was deceived , and was afraid of displeasing Pope by publishing his paper . Published ...
... gives the preference to Philips . The design of aggrandizing himself he disguised with such dex- terity , that , though Addison discovered it , Steele was deceived , and was afraid of displeasing Pope by publishing his paper . Published ...
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... give your grace a just preeminence in the community ; but they are excellences of a more exalted kind to which this tribute of my respect is paid . Your early zeal in the cause of liberty , which manifested itself at the close of a late ...
... give your grace a just preeminence in the community ; but they are excellences of a more exalted kind to which this tribute of my respect is paid . Your early zeal in the cause of liberty , which manifested itself at the close of a late ...
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... give you a place in the affections of all Englishmen who know the interest of their native country : and to those virtues , more than to the private friendship with which your grace has long honoured me , I make this offering of the few ...
... give you a place in the affections of all Englishmen who know the interest of their native country : and to those virtues , more than to the private friendship with which your grace has long honoured me , I make this offering of the few ...
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... gives delight ; and herein may the pastoral boast after a peculiar manner : for , as in painting , so in poetry , the country affords not only the most delightful scenes and prospects , but likewise the most pleasing images of life ...
... gives delight ; and herein may the pastoral boast after a peculiar manner : for , as in painting , so in poetry , the country affords not only the most delightful scenes and prospects , but likewise the most pleasing images of life ...
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... give ear to all my grief can say . Thine ewes will wander ; and the heedless lambs , In loud complaints , require their absent dams . THENOT . See Lightfoot , he shall tend them close : and I , " Tween whiles , across the plain will ...
... give ear to all my grief can say . Thine ewes will wander ; and the heedless lambs , In loud complaints , require their absent dams . THENOT . See Lightfoot , he shall tend them close : and I , " Tween whiles , across the plain will ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Agrigentum AMBROSE PHILIPS ANACREON ANTISTROPHE arms Bacchus beauteous beauty beneath bless'd boast breathe bright charms cheerful Colinet Colinet's distress Comus courser cries crowd delight Dorset dreadful EPODE express Fair Stella's eyes Fair Stella's death fairy fame fate flies flowers fond Frog gentle GILBERT WEST glory grace grief grove heart Hesiod HOBBINOL join'd Jove joys labour LANQUET Let those love maid Measures 16 mind mote Muse MYCO night note express Fair numbers nymph o'er pain PARNELL pass'd PASTORAL Pelops Philips Pindar pipe plain pleasing pleasure POEMS poets Pope praise pride rage reign rise round sacred seem'd shade shepherds shine silent sing skies smiles song soul sound spring STROPHE swains sweet tender thee THENOT Theocritus thine THOMAS PARNELL thou thought throng toil train trees tuneful Twas vale verse Virgil virgin virtue voice wanton ween winds wood youth
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Página 140 - Detested wretch !" — but scarce his speech began, When the strange partner seem'd no longer man His youthful face grew more serenely sweet ; His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair ; Celestial odours...
Página 135 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from men, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 137 - He stopp'd with silence, walk'd with trembling heart, And much he wish'd, but durst not ask to part : Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard, That generous actions meet a base reward.
Página 146 - No more my spectre-form appears. Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God: A port of calms, a state of ease From the rough rage of swelling seas.
Página 218 - The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can be only pretty, the plaything of fashion, and the amusement of a day. THERE is in the " Adventurer" a paper of verses given to one of the authors as Mr.
Página 150 - To measure height against his head, And lift itself above : Yet, spite of all that Nature did To make his uncouth form forbid, This creature dar'd to love. He felt the charms of Edith's eyes, Nor wanted hope to gain the prize, Could ladies look within...
Página 142 - Thus Heaven instructs thy mind: this trial o'er, Depart in peace, resign, and sin no more.
Página 147 - Nod o'er the scutcheons of the dead ? Nor can the parted body know, Nor wants the soul, these forms of woe. As men who long in prison dwell, With lamps that glimmer round the cell, Whene'er their suffering years are run, Spring forth to greet the glittering sun : Such joy, though far transcending sense, Have pious souls at parting hence. On earth, and in the body placed, A few and evil years they waste ; But when their chains are cast aside, See the glad scene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing,...
Página 154 - Has clapp'd the door, and whistled loud, To warn them all to go. Then, screaming, all at once they fly, And all at once the tapers...
Página 124 - scape from flattery to wit. Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear) Recall those nights that...