The Works of the English Poets: Denham and YaldenSamuel Johnson H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... gods great mother , when her heavenly race Do homage to her , yet fhe cannot boast Among that numerous , and celestial host , More heroes than can Windsor , nor doth Fame's Immortal book record more noble names . Not to look back fo far ...
... gods great mother , when her heavenly race Do homage to her , yet fhe cannot boast Among that numerous , and celestial host , More heroes than can Windsor , nor doth Fame's Immortal book record more noble names . Not to look back fo far ...
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... god - like his unweary'd bounty flows ; First loves to do , then loves the good he does . Nor are his bleffings to his banks confin'd , But free , and common , as the fea or wind ; When he , to boaft or to difperfe his ftores Full of ...
... god - like his unweary'd bounty flows ; First loves to do , then loves the good he does . Nor are his bleffings to his banks confin'd , But free , and common , as the fea or wind ; When he , to boaft or to difperfe his ftores Full of ...
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... gods . Here nature , whether more intent to please Us for herself , with ftrange varieties , ( For things of wonder give no less delight , To the wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move ...
... gods . Here nature , whether more intent to please Us for herself , with ftrange varieties , ( For things of wonder give no less delight , To the wife maker's , than beholder's fight . Though thefe delights from feveral caufes move ...
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... gods relates ; A virgin's flaughter did the storm appease , When first towards Troy the Grecians took the feas ; Their fafe retreat another Grecian's blood Must purchase . All at this confounded stood : Each thinks himself the man , the ...
... gods relates ; A virgin's flaughter did the storm appease , When first towards Troy the Grecians took the feas ; Their fafe retreat another Grecian's blood Must purchase . All at this confounded stood : Each thinks himself the man , the ...
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... gods who know the truths I now relate , That faith which yet remains inviolate By mortal men ; by these I beg , redress My causeless wrongs , and pity such distress . And now true pity in exchange he finds For his false tears , his ...
... gods who know the truths I now relate , That faith which yet remains inviolate By mortal men ; by these I beg , redress My causeless wrongs , and pity such distress . And now true pity in exchange he finds For his false tears , his ...
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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...