The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... rage confine ; For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ; Thou the flame Kindled in his breast canst tame With that snow which unmelted lies on thine . He ...
... rage confine ; For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce design . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ; Thou the flame Kindled in his breast canst tame With that snow which unmelted lies on thine . He ...
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... rage ! What scenes of death and horror had we view'd , And how had Boyne's wide current reek'd in blood ! Or if Maria's charms thou couldst rehearse , In smoother numbers and a softer verse ; Thy pen had well described her graceful air ...
... rage ! What scenes of death and horror had we view'd , And how had Boyne's wide current reek'd in blood ! Or if Maria's charms thou couldst rehearse , In smoother numbers and a softer verse ; Thy pen had well described her graceful air ...
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... rage , View'd the 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 ...
... rage , View'd the 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 ...
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... rage returns . Ah ! spare your swords , where beauty is to blame ; Love gave the ' affront , and must repair the same : When France shall boast of her , whose conquering eyes Have made the best of English hearts their prize ; Have power ...
... rage returns . Ah ! spare your swords , where beauty is to blame ; Love gave the ' affront , and must repair the same : When France shall boast of her , whose conquering eyes Have made the best of English hearts their prize ; Have power ...
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... rage and passion set on fire , Trembling for haste , impeach their mad desire . The pale Iberians had expired with fear , But that their wonder did divert their care , To see the Prince with danger moved no more Than with the pleasures ...
... rage and passion set on fire , Trembling for haste , impeach their mad desire . The pale Iberians had expired with fear , But that their wonder did divert their care , To see the Prince with danger moved no more Than with the pleasures ...
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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.