The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volume 221807 |
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... pow'r what man can sound , Or put to His Omnipotence a bound ? He made us to His image , all agree ; That image is the soul , and that must be , Or not the maker's image , or be free . But whether it were better man had been By nature ...
... pow'r what man can sound , Or put to His Omnipotence a bound ? He made us to His image , all agree ; That image is the soul , and that must be , Or not the maker's image , or be free . But whether it were better man had been By nature ...
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... pow'r , Each thwarting other , made a mingled hour . On Friday morn he dreamt this direful dream , Cross to the worthy native , in his scheme ! Ah , blissful Venus ! Goddess of delight , How could'st thou suffer thy devoted knight , On ...
... pow'r , Each thwarting other , made a mingled hour . On Friday morn he dreamt this direful dream , Cross to the worthy native , in his scheme ! Ah , blissful Venus ! Goddess of delight , How could'st thou suffer thy devoted knight , On ...
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... pow'r to raise from death . Nor sullen discontent , nor anxious care , Ev'n though brought thither , could inhabit there : But thence they fled , as from their mortal foe ; 100 For this sweet place could only pleasure know . Thus as I ...
... pow'r to raise from death . Nor sullen discontent , nor anxious care , Ev'n though brought thither , could inhabit there : But thence they fled , as from their mortal foe ; 100 For this sweet place could only pleasure know . Thus as I ...
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... pow'r " For your relief in my refreshing bow'r . " That other answer'd with a lowly look , And soon the gracious invitation took : For ill at ease both she and all her train The scorching sun had borne , and beating rain . Like courtesy ...
... pow'r " For your relief in my refreshing bow'r . " That other answer'd with a lowly look , And soon the gracious invitation took : For ill at ease both she and all her train The scorching sun had borne , and beating rain . Like courtesy ...
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... ' offender gave , 75 Aud left it in her pow'r to kill or save : This gracious act the ladies all approve , Who thought it much a man should die for love ; 81 And with their mistress join'd in close debate , 60 THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE .
... ' offender gave , 75 Aud left it in her pow'r to kill or save : This gracious act the ladies all approve , Who thought it much a man should die for love ; 81 And with their mistress join'd in close debate , 60 THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE .
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Alcibiades asses ears behold betwixt blood born brazen bull breast call'd canst Chanticleer Codrus coursers crime crown'd Cymon dame death delight design'd dost dream e'en ears ease ev'n eyes face fair fate father fear fear'd feast fire fool forc'd fortune fustian give Gods gold grace ground hand head hear heart heaven join'd Jove kind king ladies Lambics laurel lictors liv'd live lord lov'd Lysimachus maid mind Muse Nero never night noble numbers o'er offend Persius plac'd pleas'd pleasure poet poor pow'r prayer prepar'd Psecas rage receiv'd Resolv'd rest Reynard Rhodian rich Rome satire SATIRE OF JUVENAL secret secret vice seem'd Sejanus shade sight sing sire slave sleep soul spleen stoic stood Tancred tell thee thou art thro Thyestes thyself try'd turn'd Twas verse vice virtue vows wife wind wise would'st thou wretch youth
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Page 121 - Behold the fruit of ill-rewarded pain .. As many months as I sustain'd her hate, So many years is she condemned by Fate To daily death ; and every several place, Conscious of her disdain and my disgrace, Must witness her just punishment ; and be A scene of triumph and revenge to me ! As in this grove I took my last...
Page 24 - Add, that the rich have still a gibe in store, And will be monstrous witty on the poor; For the torn surtout and the tatter'd vest, The wretch and all his wardrobe are a jest; The greasy gown sully'd with often turning, Gives a good hint to say the man's in mourning; Or if the shoe be ript, or patch is put, He's wounded ! see the plaster on his foot.
Page 8 - But oh! what joy it was to hear him sing In summer, when the day began to spring, Stretching his neck, and warbling in his throat; Solus cum sola then was all his note.
Page 157 - Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Page 144 - Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand ; This was the morn when, issuing on the guard, Drawn up in rank and file they stood prepared Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
Page 11 - pothecary near, I dare for once prescribe for your disease, And save long bills, and a damn'd doctor's fees.
Page 79 - For, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 157 - What is't to me, Who never sail in her unfaithful sea, If storms arise and clouds grow black, If the mast split, and threaten wreck ? Then let the greedy merchant fear For his ill-gotten gain ; And pray to gods that will not hear, While the debating winds and billows bear J His wealth into the main.
Page 74 - Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood : Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought : The daring of the soul proceeds from thence...
Page 64 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.