The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... bright ; And loue , his mother , and the graces kept Strong watch and warde , while this faire Ladie slept . The birds awakte her with their morning song , Their warbling musicke pearst her tender eare , The murmuring brookes and ...
... bright ; And loue , his mother , and the graces kept Strong watch and warde , while this faire Ladie slept . The birds awakte her with their morning song , Their warbling musicke pearst her tender eare , The murmuring brookes and ...
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... bright Harley of that wondering age , His pleasing pain he taught the lute to breathe ; The Graces sung , and wove his myrtle wreath . In youth , of patrimonial wealth possess'd , The praise of science faintly warm'd his breast ; But ...
... bright Harley of that wondering age , His pleasing pain he taught the lute to breathe ; The Graces sung , and wove his myrtle wreath . In youth , of patrimonial wealth possess'd , The praise of science faintly warm'd his breast ; But ...
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... bright and chaste the poet and his theme ! So Cynthia shines on Arethusa's stream , A sainted virtue to the spheres may sing Those strains that ravish'd here the Martyr - king . Plenteous of native wit , in letter'd ease Politely form'd ...
... bright and chaste the poet and his theme ! So Cynthia shines on Arethusa's stream , A sainted virtue to the spheres may sing Those strains that ravish'd here the Martyr - king . Plenteous of native wit , in letter'd ease Politely form'd ...
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... Bright as the stars , and fragrant as the flowers , Where Spring resides in soft Elysian bowers ; While these the bowers adorn , and they the sphere , Will Sacharissa's charms in song appear . Yet , in the present age , her radiant name ...
... Bright as the stars , and fragrant as the flowers , Where Spring resides in soft Elysian bowers ; While these the bowers adorn , and they the sphere , Will Sacharissa's charms in song appear . Yet , in the present age , her radiant name ...
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... bright nymphs of the Gallic court , All highly born , obsequious to her sport : They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad Morning , which her beams does throw Upon their ...
... bright nymphs of the Gallic court , All highly born , obsequious to her sport : They roses seem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties hide ; She the glad Morning , which her beams does throw Upon their ...
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Page 108 - 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 48 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
Page 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 48 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination ; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already.
Page 29 - But combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those, who have long practised perfidy, grow faithless to each other.
Page 137 - 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 133 - Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.
Page 36 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Page 207 - The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name that has his heart.
Page 135 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.