Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to Beattie with Biographical and Critical NoticesThomas Wardle, 1846 - 807 pages |
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Page 34
... pride , and hardening in his strength Glories : for never , since created man , Met such imbodied force , as nam'd with these Could merit more than that small infantry Warr'd on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the ...
... pride , and hardening in his strength Glories : for never , since created man , Met such imbodied force , as nam'd with these Could merit more than that small infantry Warr'd on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the ...
Page 62
... pride that sight , and thought hintself impair'd . Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain , Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence , he resolv'd With all his legions to dislodge , and leave ...
... pride that sight , and thought hintself impair'd . Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain , Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence , he resolv'd With all his legions to dislodge , and leave ...
Page 118
... pride ; young Pompey quell'd The Pontic king , and in triúmph had rode . Yet years , and to ripe years judgment mature , Quench not the thirst of glory , but augment . Great Julius , whom now all the world admires , The more he grew in ...
... pride ; young Pompey quell'd The Pontic king , and in triúmph had rode . Yet years , and to ripe years judgment mature , Quench not the thirst of glory , but augment . Great Julius , whom now all the world admires , The more he grew in ...
Page 119
... The city gates out - pour'd , light - armed troops , In coats of mail and military pride ; In mail their horses clad , yet fleet and strong , In fable , hymn , or song , so personating BOOK III . 119 PARADISE REGAINED .
... The city gates out - pour'd , light - armed troops , In coats of mail and military pride ; In mail their horses clad , yet fleet and strong , In fable , hymn , or song , so personating BOOK III . 119 PARADISE REGAINED .
Page 160
... pride . Now like a maiden queen she will behold , From her high turrets , hourly suitors come ; The East with incense , and the West with gold , Will stand like suppliants to receive her doom . The silver Thames , her own domestic flood ...
... pride . Now like a maiden queen she will behold , From her high turrets , hourly suitors come ; The East with incense , and the West with gold , Will stand like suppliants to receive her doom . The silver Thames , her own domestic flood ...
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