The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 50Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... virtues heighten every grace . By these fecur'd , you will with pleasure read " Of future judgment , and the rifing dead ; " Of time's grand period , heaven and earth o'erthrown ; " And gafping nature's last tremendous groan . " Thefe ...
... virtues heighten every grace . By these fecur'd , you will with pleasure read " Of future judgment , and the rifing dead ; " Of time's grand period , heaven and earth o'erthrown ; " And gafping nature's last tremendous groan . " Thefe ...
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... virtue lofe their name In deathless joy , or endless fhame ? While wears away the grand machine , The works of genius fhall be feen : Beyond , what laurels can there be , For Homer , Horace , Pope , or Thee ? " Through life we chase ...
... virtue lofe their name In deathless joy , or endless fhame ? While wears away the grand machine , The works of genius fhall be feen : Beyond , what laurels can there be , For Homer , Horace , Pope , or Thee ? " Through life we chase ...
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... virtue stood Fix'd as a rock , and broke the rushing flood , Whose firm refolve , nor beauty could melt down , Nor raging tyrants from their posture frown ; Such , in this day of horrors , fhall be feen To face the thunders with a god ...
... virtue stood Fix'd as a rock , and broke the rushing flood , Whose firm refolve , nor beauty could melt down , Nor raging tyrants from their posture frown ; Such , in this day of horrors , fhall be feen To face the thunders with a god ...
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... Virtue , dominion , praife , omnipotence , Support the train of their triumphant prince . 225 230 A zone , beyond the thought of angels bright , Around him , like the zodiac , winds its light . Night fhades the folemn arches of his ...
... Virtue , dominion , praife , omnipotence , Support the train of their triumphant prince . 225 230 A zone , beyond the thought of angels bright , Around him , like the zodiac , winds its light . Night fhades the folemn arches of his ...
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... virtue's path be trod ; Thus glad all heaven , and please that bounteous GOD , Who , to light thee to pleasures , hung on high Yon radiant orb , proud regent of the sky : That fervice done , its beams fhall fade away , And GOD fhine ...
... virtue's path be trod ; Thus glad all heaven , and please that bounteous GOD , Who , to light thee to pleasures , hung on high Yon radiant orb , proud regent of the sky : That fervice done , its beams fhall fade away , And GOD fhine ...
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Page 210 - Tis dreadful to behold his nostrils blaze ; To paw the vale he proudly takes delight, And triumphs in the fulness of his might ; High rais'd he snuffs the battle from afar, And burns to plunge amid the raging war ; And mocks at death, and throws his foam around, And in a storm of fury shakes the ground.
Page 223 - Rome swift thunder flew, And headlong from his throne the tyrant threw : Thrown headlong down, by Rome in triumph led, For this night's deed his perjur'd bosom bled : His brother's ghost each moment made him start, And all his father's anguish rent his heart.
Page 86 - Is there a man of an eternal vein, "Who lulls the town in winter with his strain, At Bath, in summer, chants the reigning...
Page 110 - Such shining expletives of human kind, Who want, while through blank life they dream along, Sense to be right and passion to be wrong.
Page 210 - But, fiercer still, the lordly lion stalks, Grimly majestic in his lonely walks ; When round he glares, all living creatures fly; He clears the desert with his rolling eye.
Page 139 - tis on plenty your poor lovers starve. But with a modern fair, meridian merit Is a fierce thing they call a nymph of spirit. Mark well the rollings of her flaming eye, And tread on tiptoe if you dare draw nigh: 50 "Or if you take a lion by the beard, Or dare defy the fell Hyrcanian pard, Or arm'd rhinoceros, or rough Russian bear," First make your will, and then converse with her.
Page 221 - Views the pale cheek and the distorted mien ; He drains off life by drops, and, deaf to cries, Examines every spirit as it flies : He studies torment, dives in mortal woe, To rouse up every pang repeats his blow ; Each rising agony, each dreadful grace, Yet warm transplanting to his Saviour's face.
Page 89 - But found at length that it reduc'd his rent ; His farms were flown ; when, lo ! a sale comes on, A choice collection ! what is to be done ? He sells his last ; for he the whole will buy ; Sells...
Page 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Page 169 - The naval crown Is all his own ! Our fleet, if War or Commerce call, His will performs Through waves and storms, And rides in triumph round the ball.