Juvenile poemsA. Millar, 1757 |
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... ftreams with even murmurs creep , And hufh the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is most deceitful found , The fmootheft numbers oft are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in you , Sprightly as Youth , as Age ...
... ftreams with even murmurs creep , And hufh the heavy hearers into fleep . As fmootheft fpeech is most deceitful found , The fmootheft numbers oft are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in you , Sprightly as Youth , as Age ...
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... ftream , The World fhould tremble at her awful name : From various fprings divided waters glide , In diff'rent colours roll a diff'rent tide , Murmur along their crooked banks a while , At once they murmur and enrich the Ifle ; A while ...
... ftream , The World fhould tremble at her awful name : From various fprings divided waters glide , In diff'rent colours roll a diff'rent tide , Murmur along their crooked banks a while , At once they murmur and enrich the Ifle ; A while ...
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... 3. The Scene of this Paftoral by the river's fide ; fuitable to the heat of the feafon ; the time noon . P. Soft as he mourn'd , the ftreams forgot to flow [ 18 ] That a true Tafte is as rare to be found, as a true nius, ver 9 to.
... 3. The Scene of this Paftoral by the river's fide ; fuitable to the heat of the feafon ; the time noon . P. Soft as he mourn'd , the ftreams forgot to flow [ 18 ] That a true Tafte is as rare to be found, as a true nius, ver 9 to.
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... ftreams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn , nor to the deaf I fing , The woods fhall anfwer , and their echo ring . The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay , Why art thou prouder and more hard than ...
... ftreams , Defence from Phoebus ' , not from Cupid's beams , To you I mourn , nor to the deaf I fing , The woods fhall anfwer , and their echo ring . The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay , Why art thou prouder and more hard than ...
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Alexander Pope. The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , And headlong ftreams hang lift'ning in their fall ! But fee , the fhepherds fhun the noon - day heat , 85 The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat , To clofer fhades the ...
Alexander Pope. The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , And headlong ftreams hang lift'ning in their fall ! But fee , the fhepherds fhun the noon - day heat , 85 The lowing herds to murm'ring brooks retreat , To clofer fhades the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 84 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Página 187 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Página 50 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 44 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Página 171 - Then gay Ideas crowd the vacant brain, While Peers, and Dukes, and all their sweeping train, And Garters, Stars, and Coronets appear...
Página xv - All that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients ; and it will be found true that, in every age, the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by those who have been most indebted to them.
Página 112 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 119 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.
Página 177 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Página 211 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?