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... Command of his Highness Royal ; together with the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch , June 3 , 1665 Mr. Waller , when he was at Sea ...... 156 166 A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire : presented to his Majesty King ...
... Command of his Highness Royal ; together with the Battle and Victory obtained over the Dutch , June 3 , 1665 Mr. Waller , when he was at Sea ...... 156 166 A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire : presented to his Majesty King ...
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... command , As once the viper from his sacred hand . So joys the aged oak , when we divide The creeping ivy from his injured side . Of the two last couplets , the first is extravagant , and the second mean . His praise of the Queen is too ...
... command , As once the viper from his sacred hand . So joys the aged oak , when we divide The creeping ivy from his injured side . Of the two last couplets , the first is extravagant , and the second mean . His praise of the Queen is too ...
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... commands thy lays ; Muse , turn thy verse with art to Waller's praise . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate desire , So long shall Waller's strains our passion move , And Sacharissa's beauty ...
... commands thy lays ; Muse , turn thy verse with art to Waller's praise . While tender airs and lovely dames inspire Soft melting thoughts , and propagate desire , So long shall Waller's strains our passion move , And Sacharissa's beauty ...
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... commands for the gathering of these sticks into a faggot had sooner been obeyed , but intend- ing to present you with my whole vintage , I stayed till the latest grapes were ripe , for here your lady- ship hath not only all I have done ...
... commands for the gathering of these sticks into a faggot had sooner been obeyed , but intend- ing to present you with my whole vintage , I stayed till the latest grapes were ripe , for here your lady- ship hath not only all I have done ...
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... commands have been with me . Madam , I only whisper these in your ears ; if you publish them they are your own ; and therefore , as you apprehend the approach of a wit , and a poet , cast them into the fire : or if they come where green ...
... commands have been with me . Madam , I only whisper these in your ears ; if you publish them they are your own ; and therefore , as you apprehend the approach of a wit , and a poet , cast them into the fire : or if they come where green ...
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admire amazed Amoret appear arms beauty bless'd blood bold born boughs bounty brave breast bright CANTO Chloris Clarendon clouds command commission of array COUNTESS OF CARLISLE courage court Cromwell crown'd dame death delight divine doth Earl of Portland earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fancy fate favour fear fierce fire flame foes friends give Gloriana glory grace grow hand happy heart Heaven honour hope Jove King LADY Laomedon light live Lord Lord Conway Lucretius mind mortal Muse never noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once Orpheus Panegyric Parliament passion peace Phoebus poem poet poetry praise princes Queen rage reign royal rude Sacharissa sacred shine ship sing smile song soul sweet sword taught tempest thee Theseus Thetis things thou thought tree tremble triumph Twas Venus verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wonder wound youth
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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.