Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volumen1Vicesimus Knox Rivington, 1791 |
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... distant worlds extends , Whofe glory heav'n's vast height tranfcends . From infants Thou canft strength upraise , And form their lifping tongues to praise : By thefe the vengeance - breathing Foe Thy mightier terrors taught to know , In ...
... distant worlds extends , Whofe glory heav'n's vast height tranfcends . From infants Thou canft strength upraise , And form their lifping tongues to praise : By thefe the vengeance - breathing Foe Thy mightier terrors taught to know , In ...
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... distant world is known , And either India is our own . Had I with milliners been bred , What had I been ? the guide of thread . And drudg'd as vulgar Needles do , Of no more confequence than you . § 139. Fable XVII . The Shepherd's Dog ...
... distant world is known , And either India is our own . Had I with milliners been bred , What had I been ? the guide of thread . And drudg'd as vulgar Needles do , Of no more confequence than you . § 139. Fable XVII . The Shepherd's Dog ...
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... distant war they try , Short , and more fhort , the miffive weapons fly . Meanwhile the ravifhers their crimes enjoy , And flying fails and tweeping oars employ : The cliffs of Rhodes in little pace are loft ; Jove's ifle they feck ...
... distant war they try , Short , and more fhort , the miffive weapons fly . Meanwhile the ravifhers their crimes enjoy , And flying fails and tweeping oars employ : The cliffs of Rhodes in little pace are loft ; Jove's ifle they feck ...
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... distant land , what region , can afford An action worthy his victorious fword ? Where will he next the flying Gaul defeat , To make the feries of his toils complete ? Where the fwoln Rhine ruthing with all its force Divides the hoftile ...
... distant land , what region , can afford An action worthy his victorious fword ? Where will he next the flying Gaul defeat , To make the feries of his toils complete ? Where the fwoln Rhine ruthing with all its force Divides the hoftile ...
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... distant storms , He hears the thunder ere the tempeft low'rs , And , arm'd with ftrength furpaffing human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful ...
... distant storms , He hears the thunder ere the tempeft low'rs , And , arm'd with ftrength furpaffing human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful ...
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Página 22 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 22 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 188 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 443 - 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 215 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Página 210 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 14 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 19 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe.
Página 205 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Página 33 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.