The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and ProseT. Davies, 1772 - 236 pages |
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... gives vigour to the body , and alacrity to the mind ; which railes us without talents or virtue , to the first departments of a ftate ; unlocks to us the cabinets of kings , and authorizes us to determine the fate of nations . Fortune ...
... gives vigour to the body , and alacrity to the mind ; which railes us without talents or virtue , to the first departments of a ftate ; unlocks to us the cabinets of kings , and authorizes us to determine the fate of nations . Fortune ...
Page iv
... gives us only flowery , and chimerical amuse- ment ; but to them we are indebted for fubftantial conveniences and delights . It is his province to paint ; it is theirs to realize . The fenfible reader will not fuppofe that I mean to ...
... gives us only flowery , and chimerical amuse- ment ; but to them we are indebted for fubftantial conveniences and delights . It is his province to paint ; it is theirs to realize . The fenfible reader will not fuppofe that I mean to ...
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... give over writing verfes , ( for he was near thirty years of age , when he first engaged himself in that " exercise , at least that he was known to do fo , ) fur- 66 prifed the town with two , or three pieces of that " kind . " The ...
... give over writing verfes , ( for he was near thirty years of age , when he first engaged himself in that " exercise , at least that he was known to do fo , ) fur- 66 prifed the town with two , or three pieces of that " kind . " The ...
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... gives the ingenuous mind all that embellishment and dignity which it is capable of receiving . By an intercourfe with the learned , the penetrating , and the virtuous , our knowledge is arranged , our beft powers are called forth , and ...
... gives the ingenuous mind all that embellishment and dignity which it is capable of receiving . By an intercourfe with the learned , the penetrating , and the virtuous , our knowledge is arranged , our beft powers are called forth , and ...
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... gives us indeed fo full , and picturefque a defcription of the climate , and produce of those islands , that one would imagine he had compofed the poem after his return from them . But this opinion is precluded by a beautiful apostrophe ...
... gives us indeed fo full , and picturefque a defcription of the climate , and produce of those islands , that one would imagine he had compofed the poem after his return from them . But this opinion is precluded by a beautiful apostrophe ...
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Page 59 - 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 152 - 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 50 - 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 44 - 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 221 - ... much declined by fair ladies, old age : may she live to be very old, and yet seem young, be told so by her glass, and have no aches to inform her of the truth : and when she shall appear to be mortal, may her Lord not mourn for her, but go hand in hand with her to that place where we are told there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, that being there divorced we may all have an equal interest in her again.
Page 227 - There was no distinction of parts, no regular stops, nothing for the ear to rest upon ; but as soon as the copy began, down it went like a larum, incessantly ; and the reader was sure to be out of breath before he got to the end of it...
Page 49 - 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 66 - Such truth in love as the' antique world did know, In such a style as courts may boast of now ; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Page 225 - English verse, and the first that showed us our tongue had beauty and numbers in it. Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.
Page 95 - When straight the people, by no force compell'd, Nor longer from their inclination held, Break forth at once, like powder set on fire, And, with a noble rage, their King require. So the...