The Whole Critical Works of Monsieur Rapin ...: Newly Done Into English by Several Hands, Volume 1H. Bonwicke, 1706 |
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Page 137 - A second time we ran to tempt our death, To clear the palace from the foe, succeed The weary living, and revenge the dead. "A...
Page 207 - From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Page 141 - ... Others, in love with wild variety, Draw boars in waves, and dolphins in a wood : Thus fear of erring, join'd with want of skill, Is a most certain way of erring still. The meanest workman in th...
Page 135 - The foes already have possess'd the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty and to fame. If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone.
Page 165 - Here they describe a temple, or a wood, Or streams that through delightful meadows run, And there the rainbow, or the rapid Rhine, But they misplace them all, and crowd them in, And are as much to seek in other things, As he, that only can design a tree, Would be to draw a shipwreck or a storm. When you begin with so much pomp and show; Why is the end so little and so mean?
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