The Works of the English Poets: Denham and YaldenSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... bring . Then didft thou found that order ( whether love Or victory thy royal thoughts did move ) Each was a noble caufe , and nothing lefs Than the defign , has been the great fuccefs : Which foreign kings and emperors esteem The fecond ...
... bring . Then didft thou found that order ( whether love Or victory thy royal thoughts did move ) Each was a noble caufe , and nothing lefs Than the defign , has been the great fuccefs : Which foreign kings and emperors esteem The fecond ...
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... bring This defolation , but a Christian king ; · When nothing , but the name of zeal , appears ' Twixt our beft actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our facrilege would spare , When fuch th ' effects of our devotions are ...
... bring This defolation , but a Christian king ; · When nothing , but the name of zeal , appears ' Twixt our beft actions and the worst of theirs ; What does he think our facrilege would spare , When fuch th ' effects of our devotions are ...
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... Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours ; Finds wealth where ' tis , beftows it where it wants , Cities in defarts , woods in cities plants . So that to us no thing , no place is strange , While his fair bofom is the world's ...
... Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours ; Finds wealth where ' tis , beftows it where it wants , Cities in defarts , woods in cities plants . So that to us no thing , no place is strange , While his fair bofom is the world's ...
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... bring , Who to betray us did himself betray , At once the taker , and at once the prey ; Firmly prepar'd , of one event fecur'd , Or of his death or his defign affur'd . The Trojan youth about the captive flock , To wonder , or to pity ...
... bring , Who to betray us did himself betray , At once the taker , and at once the prey ; Firmly prepar'd , of one event fecur'd , Or of his death or his defign affur'd . The Trojan youth about the captive flock , To wonder , or to pity ...
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... brings old Vesta from her facred quire , Her holy wreaths , and her eternal fire . Meanwhile the walls with doubtful cries refound From far ( for fhady coverts did furround My father's house ) ; approaching still more near The clash of ...
... brings old Vesta from her facred quire , Her holy wreaths , and her eternal fire . Meanwhile the walls with doubtful cries refound From far ( for fhady coverts did furround My father's house ) ; approaching still more near The clash of ...
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Ægypt againſt Androgeus arms becauſe blood breaſt caft Calchas call'd caufe cauſe counfels death defign defires deſtroy diſeaſe doft doth elfe eſcape eyes facred faid fame fate fear feaſt fecure feem feen fervant feven fhall fhew fight fince fire firft firſt flain flame fome force foul friends ftand ftill fubjects fuch fure fword gods Greeks hand hath heaven herſelf himſelf honour houſe immortal itſelf Juftice juſt king laft laſt leaſt lefs loft mighty mind mortal moſt Mufes muft muſt myſelf nature numbers o'er ourſelves paſt Pindar PLAGUE OF ATHEN pleaſe pleaſure poets praiſe prefent Pyrrhus rage raiſe reafon Samnites ſeem ſhall ſhe ſhould ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtream ſtrength Tarentum thee themſelves thence theſe thine things thofe THOMAS KILLIGREW thoſe Troy Twas uſe Whilft whofe whoſe wife wiſdom youth
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Page 13 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 55 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.
Page 12 - But to be restless in a worse extreme ? And for that lethargy was there no cure But to be cast into a calenture ; Can knowledge have no bound, but...
Page 13 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and...
Page 55 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Page 16 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Page 11 - A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Page 18 - Though prodigal of life, disdains to die By common hands; but, if he can descry Some nobler foe approach, to him he calls, And begs his fate, and then contented falls. So when the king a mortal shaft lets fly...
Page 49 - Prithee die and set me free, Or else be Kind and brisk, and gay like me; I pretend not to the wise ones, To the grave, to the grave, Or the precise ones. Tis not Cheeks, nor Lips nor Eyes, That I prize, Quick Conceits, or sharp Replies, If wise thou wilt appear, and knowing, Repartie, Repartie To what I'm doing. Prithee why the Room so dark? Not a Spark Left to light me to the mark ; I love day-light and a candle, And to see, and to see, As well as handle.
Page 11 - Th' adjoining abbey fell. (May no such storm Fall on our times, where ruin must reform!) Tell me, my Muse! what monstrous dire offence, What crime could any Christian king incense To such a rage ? Was't luxury or lust ? Was he so temperate, so chaste, so just ? Were these their crimes! they were his own much more; But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor...