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... Person of honor , who lately writ a religious book , intitled Hiftorical Applications , and occafional Meditations upon Several fubjects , 144 So a Perfon of honor , upon his incomparable , incom- prehenfible Poem , intitled The British ...
... Person of honor , who lately writ a religious book , intitled Hiftorical Applications , and occafional Meditations upon Several fubjects , 144 So a Perfon of honor , upon his incomparable , incom- prehenfible Poem , intitled The British ...
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... , From all their fears , as they preferve their sheep But above all , the Muse - inspired train Triumph , and raise their drooping heads again : Kind heav'n at once has , in your person , Kind SEVERAL OCCASIONS . 121.
... , From all their fears , as they preferve their sheep But above all , the Muse - inspired train Triumph , and raise their drooping heads again : Kind heav'n at once has , in your person , Kind SEVERAL OCCASIONS . 121.
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... person , sent Their facred judge , their guard , and argument . Nec magis expreffi vultus per ahenea figna , Quam per vatis opus mores , animique , virorum Clarorum apparent **** HORAT . On St. JAMES'S PARK , as lately improved by his ...
... person , sent Their facred judge , their guard , and argument . Nec magis expreffi vultus per ahenea figna , Quam per vatis opus mores , animique , virorum Clarorum apparent **** HORAT . On St. JAMES'S PARK , as lately improved by his ...
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... Person of Ho- nor , who lately writ a religious Book , intitled ' Hiftorical Approbations , and ' Occafional Meditations upon feveral Subjects . ' B OLD is the man that dares engage For piety , in fuch an age ! Who can prefume to find a ...
... Person of Ho- nor , who lately writ a religious Book , intitled ' Hiftorical Approbations , and ' Occafional Meditations upon feveral Subjects . ' B OLD is the man that dares engage For piety , in fuch an age ! Who can prefume to find a ...
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... person , and her ftate , Exempted from the common fate ) In all our civil fury fhe Stood like a facred temple , free . May here her monument fiand fo , To credit this rude age ! and show To To future times , that even we Some patterns ...
... person , and her ftate , Exempted from the common fate ) In all our civil fury fhe Stood like a facred temple , free . May here her monument fiand fo , To credit this rude age ! and show To To future times , that even we Some patterns ...
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Page 182 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 73 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 62 - 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. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 60 - Heav'n seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them.
Page 55 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Page 182 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 9 - Mighty Queen : In whom th' extremes of power and beauty move, The Queen of •Britain, and the Queen of Love ! As the bright fun (to which we owe no fight Of equal glory to your beauty's light) Is wifely plac'd in fo fublime a feat, T...
Page 108 - To such a tempest as now threatens all, Did not your mighty arm prevent the fall. If Rome's great senate could not wield that sword, Which of the conquer'd world had made them lord ; What hope had ours, while yet their power was new, To rule victorious armies, but by you...
Page 36 - While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear : When to the beeches I report my flame, They bow their heads, as if they felt the same. To gods appealing, when I reach their bowers, With loud complaints they answer me in showers. To thee a wild and cruel soul is given, More deaf than trees, and prouder than the Heaven ! On the head of a stag...
Page 113 - The ancient way of conquering abroad. Ungrateful, then ! if we no tears allow To him, that gave us peace and empire too. Princes that fear'd him grieve...