Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the Ancient Poets Together with Several Original Poems, Volume 4Jacob Tonson, 1716 - Classical poetry |
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... Lives there , and wants but words to speak her thought . At least thy . Pictures look a Voice ; and we Imagine Sounds , deceiv'd to that degree , We think ' tis fomewhat more than just to fee . Shadows are bur Privations of the Light ...
... Lives there , and wants but words to speak her thought . At least thy . Pictures look a Voice ; and we Imagine Sounds , deceiv'd to that degree , We think ' tis fomewhat more than just to fee . Shadows are bur Privations of the Light ...
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... Live . Yet Perfpective was lame ; no diftance true ; But all came forward in one common View : No point of Light was known , no bounds of Art ; When Light was there , it knew not to depart : But glaring on remoter Objects play'd : Not ...
... Live . Yet Perfpective was lame ; no diftance true ; But all came forward in one common View : No point of Light was known , no bounds of Art ; When Light was there , it knew not to depart : But glaring on remoter Objects play'd : Not ...
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... live ; And not fev'n Cities , but the World wou'd ftrive . Sure fome propitious Planet then did fmile , When firft you were conducted to this Ifle : ( Our Genius brought you here , t ' inlarge our Fame ) ( For your good Stars are ev'ry ...
... live ; And not fev'n Cities , but the World wou'd ftrive . Sure fome propitious Planet then did fmile , When firft you were conducted to this Ifle : ( Our Genius brought you here , t ' inlarge our Fame ) ( For your good Stars are ev'ry ...
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... live ; Kings cannot Reign , unless their Subjects give . And they who pay the Taxes , bear the Rule : Thus thou , fometimes , art forc'd to draw a Fool : But fo his Follies in thy Pofture fink , The fenfelefs Ideot feems at leaft to ...
... live ; Kings cannot Reign , unless their Subjects give . And they who pay the Taxes , bear the Rule : Thus thou , fometimes , art forc'd to draw a Fool : But fo his Follies in thy Pofture fink , The fenfelefs Ideot feems at leaft to ...
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... live In hollow Rocks , or make a Tree their Hive . Point all their chinky Lodgings round with Mud , And Leaves must thinly on your Work be ftrow'd ; But let no baleful Eugh - Tree flourish near , Nor rotten Marshes fend out fteams of ...
... live In hollow Rocks , or make a Tree their Hive . Point all their chinky Lodgings round with Mud , And Leaves must thinly on your Work be ftrow'd ; But let no baleful Eugh - Tree flourish near , Nor rotten Marshes fend out fteams of ...
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Page 331 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of...
Page 78 - Call us what you will, wee are made such by love; Call her one, mee another flye, We'are Tapers too, and at our owne cost die, And wee in us finde the'Eagle and the Dove The Phoenix ridle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutrall thing both sexes fit, Wee dye and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
Page 78 - You whom reverend love Made one another's hermitage, You to whom love was peace that now is rage, Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove Into the glasses of your eyes (So made such mirrors and such spies That they did all to you epitomize), Countries, towns, courts beg from above A pattern of your love!
Page 205 - Oh, could her in-born stains be wash'd away, She were too good to be a beast of prey ! How can I praise, or blame, and not offend, Or how divide the frailty from the friend ? Her faults and virtues lie so mix'd, that she Nor wholly stands condemn'd, nor wholly free : Then, like her injured Lion, let me speak ; He cannot bend her, and he would not break.
Page 3 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Page 205 - Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.
Page 199 - My manhood, long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow'd false lights; and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task: my doubts are done (What more could fright my faith, than three in one?) Can I believe eternal God could lie Disguis'd in mortal mold and infancy?
Page 78 - And if no piece of Chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms; As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs, And by these hymns all shall approve Us canonized for Love...
Page 124 - Interinanimates two souls, That abler soul, which thence doth flow, Defects of loneliness controls. We then, who are this new soul, know, Of what we are composed and made, For th' Atomies of which we grow, Are souls, whom no change can invade.
Page 122 - And if myself have leave to see, I need not their light, having thee. Let others freeze with angling reeds, And cut their legs with shells and weeds, Or treacherously poor fish beset With strangling snare, or windowy net. Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest The bedded fish in banks out-wrest; Or curious traitors, sleave-silk flies, Bewitch poor fishes