The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raise her waves above The ' heroic Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , The shrine should perish where that image dwelt ...
... mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raise her waves above The ' heroic Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , The shrine should perish where that image dwelt ...
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... mortal with her deathless bed , And that his living eyes such beauty fed : Had she been there , untimely joy through all Men's hearts diffused , had marred the funeral . Those eyes were made to banish grief : as well Bright Phoebus ...
... mortal with her deathless bed , And that his living eyes such beauty fed : Had she been there , untimely joy through all Men's hearts diffused , had marred the funeral . Those eyes were made to banish grief : as well Bright Phoebus ...
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... mortal - making stars did shine , That there they cannot but for ever prove The monument and pledge of humble love ; His humble love whose hope shall ne'er rise higher , Than for a pardon that he dares admire . OF THE LADY WHO CAN SLEEP ...
... mortal - making stars did shine , That there they cannot but for ever prove The monument and pledge of humble love ; His humble love whose hope shall ne'er rise higher , Than for a pardon that he dares admire . OF THE LADY WHO CAN SLEEP ...
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... mortal dame , None but those eyes could have o'erthrown ; The nymph I dare not , need not name , So high , so like herself alone . Thus the tall oak , which now aspires Above the fear of private fires , Grown and design'd for nobler use ...
... mortal dame , None but those eyes could have o'erthrown ; The nymph I dare not , need not name , So high , so like herself alone . Thus the tall oak , which now aspires Above the fear of private fires , Grown and design'd for nobler use ...
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... mortal flame was e'er so cruel As this , which thus survives the fuel ! OF LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT . NOT caring to observe the wind , Or the new sea explore , Snatch'd from myself , how far behind Already I behold the shore ! May not a ...
... mortal flame was e'er so cruel As this , which thus survives the fuel ! OF LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT . NOT caring to observe the wind , Or the new sea explore , Snatch'd from myself , how far behind Already I behold the shore ! May not a ...
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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.