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... SPAIN , AND FIGHT AT SEA UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD PROTECTOR TO THE KING , UPON HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY RETURN N ST . JAMES'S PARK • 155 · 159 • 160 • 160 164 · • • 166 • 171 OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , MOTHER TO THE PRINCE OF CONTENTS .
... SPAIN , AND FIGHT AT SEA UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD PROTECTOR TO THE KING , UPON HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY RETURN N ST . JAMES'S PARK • 155 · 159 • 160 • 160 164 · • • 166 • 171 OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , MOTHER TO THE PRINCE OF CONTENTS .
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... happy epigram , or present the heads of a discussion with effective perspicuity ; but he rarely ventured farther , and the highest merit of his elo- quence was its fitness to the immediate occasion , and its vivacity of illustration ...
... happy epigram , or present the heads of a discussion with effective perspicuity ; but he rarely ventured farther , and the highest merit of his elo- quence was its fitness to the immediate occasion , and its vivacity of illustration ...
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... happy whom the Greeks had quelled In honourable fight ; our hero , set In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns and sceptres , more Than ever Priam , when he flourished , wore ; His loins yet full of ungot ...
... happy whom the Greeks had quelled In honourable fight ; our hero , set In a small shallop , Fortune in his debt , So near a hope of crowns and sceptres , more Than ever Priam , when he flourished , wore ; His loins yet full of ungot ...
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... happy , who can fear no force But winged troops , or Pegasean horse . " Tis not so hard for greedy foes to spoil Another nation , as to touch our soil . * The date of this poem is uncertain . Some of Waller's editors refer it to 1626 ...
... happy , who can fear no force But winged troops , or Pegasean horse . " Tis not so hard for greedy foes to spoil Another nation , as to touch our soil . * The date of this poem is uncertain . Some of Waller's editors refer it to 1626 ...
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... happy isle , Moved with the ruin of so brave a pile , This work of cost and piety begun , To be accomplished by his glorious son , Who all that came within the ample thought Of his wise sire has to perfection brought ; + He , like ...
... happy isle , Moved with the ruin of so brave a pile , This work of cost and piety begun , To be accomplished by his glorious son , Who all that came within the ample thought Of his wise sire has to perfection brought ; + He , like ...
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Page 222 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 123 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Page 127 - TT is not that I love you less, •*- Than when before your feet I lay; But to prevent the sad increase Of hopeless love, I keep away. In vain, alas ! for everything Which I have known belong to you, Your form does to my fancy bring, And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
Page 46 - ... floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant, omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta, aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
Page 175 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Page 221 - Oh ! suppress that magic sound, Which destroys without a wound. Peace Chloris, peace, or singing die, That together you and I To Heaven may go : For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
Page 101 - Oh ! how I long my careless limbs to lay Under the plantain's shade, and all the day With amorous airs my fancy entertain, Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein! No passion there in my free breast should move, None but the sweet and best of passions, love.
Page 60 - Where'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all she brings; The French and Spaniard, when thy flags appear, Forget their hatred, and consent to fear. So Jove from Ida did both hosts survey, And when he pleased to thunder part the fray. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped, The...
Page 132 - Tis art and knowledge which draw forth The hidden seeds of native worth : They blow those sparks, and make them rise Into such flames as touch the skies.
Page 194 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.