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... friends , and country unaveng'd ; And back the drooping war - fhip comes again , Difpirited , and thin ; her fons asham'd * Frederick . 35 40 Thus Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not 2 THOMSON'S POEM S.
... friends , and country unaveng'd ; And back the drooping war - fhip comes again , Difpirited , and thin ; her fons asham'd * Frederick . 35 40 Thus Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not 2 THOMSON'S POEM S.
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Samuel Johnson. Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not one glory sparkling in their eye , One triumph on their tongue . A paffenger , The violated merchant comes along ; That far - fought wealth , for which the noxious gale He ...
Samuel Johnson. Thus idly to review their native shore ; With not one glory sparkling in their eye , One triumph on their tongue . A paffenger , The violated merchant comes along ; That far - fought wealth , for which the noxious gale He ...
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... your wisdom ; this The native power for which you were defign'd By Fate , when Fate design'd the firmest state , That e'er was feated on the subject sea ; B 4 180 155 190 A ftate , A state , alone , where Liberty fhould live , BRITANNIA .
... your wisdom ; this The native power for which you were defign'd By Fate , when Fate design'd the firmest state , That e'er was feated on the subject sea ; B 4 180 155 190 A ftate , A state , alone , where Liberty fhould live , BRITANNIA .
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... native foe : a foreign , tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæfars thi : began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled spreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt ...
... native foe : a foreign , tears without . First from your flatter'd Cæfars thi : began : Till , doom'd to tyrants an eternal prey , Thin - peopled spreads , at laft , the fyren plain , That the dire foul of Hannibal difarm'd ; And wrapt ...
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... native rights and honour of their race : " Teach me thy loweft fubject , but in zeal " Yielding to none , the Progrefs of thy Reign , " And with a strain from Thee enrich the Mufe . " As Thee alone the ferves , her patron , Thou , " And ...
... native rights and honour of their race : " Teach me thy loweft fubject , but in zeal " Yielding to none , the Progrefs of thy Reign , " And with a strain from Thee enrich the Mufe . " As Thee alone the ferves , her patron , Thou , " And ...
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Æneid æther againſt arts behold beneath bleffings bleft blifs boaſt breaſt breathing Britons charm chearful CYMBELINE deep defert Delia delight dreft eclogue Elegy Ev'n facred fafely fair fame fancy fcene fecret feems fhade fhall fhepherd fhining fhore fhould fighs filent fing firft firſt flame flaves fmile focial foft fome fong fons foul fpread fpring ftate ftill ftorm ftrain fubject fuch funk fweet fwelling fyren genius glory Goddeſs grace Greece heart heaven himſelf laft land laſt lefs Liberty loft lov'd maid mix'd moſt Mufe mufic muſt numbers o'er paffions peace plain pleaſe pleaſure POEM pour'd pride rage rais'd raiſe reafon reign rife rofe Rome round ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſky ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtream tear tender thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand toil treaſure tyrant vale verfe virtue waſte whofe whoſe wild wiſdom youth
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Page 269 - his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thoufand odours from his dewy wings. O Mufic, fphere-defcended maid, Friend of pleafure, wifdom's aid, Why, Goddefs, why to us denied ? Lay'ft thou thy ancient lyre afide ? As in that lov'd Athenian bower, You learn'd an all-commanding power, Thy mimic foul, O nymph
Page 249 - Strange fhades o'erbrow the vallies deep, And holy Genii guard the rock, Its glooms embrown, its fprings unlock, While on its rich ambitious head, An Eden, like his own, lies fpread. I view that oak, the fancied glades among, By which as Milton lay, his evening ear, From many a cloud that dropp'd ethereal
Page 268 - And blew a blaft fo loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic founds fo full of woe. And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat; And though fometimes, each dreary paufe between,
Page 268 - Sad proof of thy diftrefsful ftate, Of differing themes the veering fong was mix'd, And now it courted Love, now raving call'd on Hate. With eyes up-rais'd, as one infpir'd, Pale Melancholy fat retir'd, And from her wild fequefter'd feat, In notes by diftance made more fweet, Pour'd
Page 262 - light: While fallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy flirinking train, And rudely rends thy robes: So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy,
Page 261 - fliows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who flept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with fedge, And flieds the
Page 268 - flung, Her buikins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an infpiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known; The oak-crown'd fitters, and their chafte-ey'd queen. Satyrs and
Page 287 - beautiful eclogue, without paying the tribute of admiration fo juftly due to the following nervous lines. " What if the lion in his rage I meet !— Oft in the duft I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger rouz'd, he fcours the groaning plain
Page 314 - Still would her touch the ftrain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, . She call'd on Echo ftill through all the fong; And where her fweeteft theme flie chofe, A foft refponfive voice was heard at every
Page 272 - was almoft loft in Art. Of fofter mold the gentle Fletcher came, The next in order, as the next in name. With pleas'd attention 'midft his fcenes we find Each glowing thought, that warms the female mind; Each melting figh, and every tender tear, The lover's wiflies, and the virgin's fear. His