The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 43Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Speak , and thy word gives half the world repofe ; Sink down , ye hills , eternal rocks fubfide , Vanifh ye forts , thou ocean drain thy tide ; We fafety boaft , defended by thy fame , And armies in the terror of thy name ! Now fix o'er ...
... Speak , and thy word gives half the world repofe ; Sink down , ye hills , eternal rocks fubfide , Vanifh ye forts , thou ocean drain thy tide ; We fafety boaft , defended by thy fame , And armies in the terror of thy name ! Now fix o'er ...
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... speaking marble to record their praise ; Or carve with fruitlefs toil , to fame unknown , The mimic feature on the breathing stone ' ; Mere mortals , fubject to death's total fway , ' Reptiles of earth , and beings of a day ! ' Tis ...
... speaking marble to record their praise ; Or carve with fruitlefs toil , to fame unknown , The mimic feature on the breathing stone ' ; Mere mortals , fubject to death's total fway , ' Reptiles of earth , and beings of a day ! ' Tis ...
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... Speak inftant ! -Silent to advance , is death ! O pride of Greece , the plaintive king returns , Here in thy tent thou Agamemnon view'st , A prince , the most unhappy of mankind ; Woes I endure , which none but kings can feel , Which ne ...
... Speak inftant ! -Silent to advance , is death ! O pride of Greece , the plaintive king returns , Here in thy tent thou Agamemnon view'st , A prince , the most unhappy of mankind ; Woes I endure , which none but kings can feel , Which ne ...
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... speak to Greeks , and they Ulysses know ; But hafte , fwift roll the hours of night , the morn Already haftens to difplay her beams , And in the vault of heaven the stars decay . Swift at the word they fheath their manly limbs Horrid in ...
... speak to Greeks , and they Ulysses know ; But hafte , fwift roll the hours of night , the morn Already haftens to difplay her beams , And in the vault of heaven the stars decay . Swift at the word they fheath their manly limbs Horrid in ...
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... speak : The peers of Troy Hector in council meets : round Ilus ' tomb Apart from neife they ftand : no guards furround The fpacious hoft : where through the gloom yon fires Blaze frequent , Trojans wake to guard their Troy ; Secure th ...
... speak : The peers of Troy Hector in council meets : round Ilus ' tomb Apart from neife they ftand : no guards furround The fpacious hoft : where through the gloom yon fires Blaze frequent , Trojans wake to guard their Troy ; Secure th ...
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Page 302 - And then conclude divinely with their own ; Like oil on water mounts the prelate up, His grace is always fure to be at top ; That vein of mercury its beams will fpread, And mine more ftrongly thro
Page 395 - Till generous Bacchus help'd to fan the fire. Warm'd by two Gods at once, they drink and write, Rhyme all the day, and tipple all the night.
Page 333 - Then grieved returns, or waits with vain delay Till the tumultuous deluge rolls away. But in no Iliad let the youth engage His tender years, and...
Page 303 - Nay, though flie licks the Ruins, all her Cares Scarce mend the Lumps, and bring them but to Bears. Ye Country Vicars, when you preach in Town A Turn at Paul's, to pay your Journey down, If...
Page 61 - If aught on earth, when once this breath is fled, With human tranfport touch the mighty dead...
Page 244 - Led by his arm, undaunted I appear In the firft ranks of death, and front of war. He taught me firft the pointed fpear to wield, And mow the glorious harveft of the field. By him infpir'd, from ftrength to ftrength I part, Plung'd through the troops, and laid the battle wafte.
Page 164 - When pain afflicts, or sickness grieves, Its juice the drooping heart relieves; And, after death, its odours shed A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead; And when its withering charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away; Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime.
Page 396 - Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint, Get drunk or mad, and then get into print: To raife their flames indulge the mellow fit, And lofe their fenfes in the fearch of wit: * Late r.illn.n of London. And when with claret fir'd they take the pen, Swear they can write, becaufe they drink, like Ben.
Page 272 - You praife low-living, but you live at large. Perhaps you fcarce believe the rules you teach, Or find it hard to praftife what you preach.