The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... earth : Such eyes as yours , on Jove himself have thrown As bright and fierce a lightning as his own : Witness our Jove , prevented by their flame In his swift paffage to th ' Hefperian Dame : When , like a lion , finding in his way To ...
... earth : Such eyes as yours , on Jove himself have thrown As bright and fierce a lightning as his own : Witness our Jove , prevented by their flame In his swift paffage to th ' Hefperian Dame : When , like a lion , finding in his way To ...
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... earth , impose . Fair Venus , in thy soft arms The God of Rage confine ; For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce defign . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ? Thou the flame Kindled in his breast ...
... earth , impose . Fair Venus , in thy soft arms The God of Rage confine ; For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce defign . What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ? Thou the flame Kindled in his breast ...
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... earth ; Whofe beauty relieves us , Whose royal bed gives us Both glory and peace : Our prefent joy , and all our hopes increase . To the QUEEN - MOTHER OF FRANCE , upon her Landing . GREAT Queen of Europe ! whence thy offspring wears ...
... earth ; Whofe beauty relieves us , Whose royal bed gives us Both glory and peace : Our prefent joy , and all our hopes increase . To the QUEEN - MOTHER OF FRANCE , upon her Landing . GREAT Queen of Europe ! whence thy offspring wears ...
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... earth fnatch her away . On my Lady DOROTHY SIDNEY'S Picture . SUCH UCH was Philoclea , and fuch † Dorus ' flame The matchlefs Sidney , that immortal frame Of perfect beauty , on two pillars plac'd : Not his high fancy could one pattern ...
... earth fnatch her away . On my Lady DOROTHY SIDNEY'S Picture . SUCH UCH was Philoclea , and fuch † Dorus ' flame The matchlefs Sidney , that immortal frame Of perfect beauty , on two pillars plac'd : Not his high fancy could one pattern ...
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... thousand years Seems to have practis'd with much care , To frame the race of women fair ; Yet never could a perfect birth Produce before , to grace the earth : Which waxed old , ere it could fee Her that Which 48 WALLER'S POEMS .
... thousand years Seems to have practis'd with much care , To frame the race of women fair ; Yet never could a perfect birth Produce before , to grace the earth : Which waxed old , ere it could fee Her that Which 48 WALLER'S POEMS .
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Page 232 - For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 79 - Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to heaven does climb. Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.
Page 99 - Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Page 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 10 - Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new.
Page 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.
Page 7 - Our language owes more to him than the French does to Cardinal Richelieu, and the whole Academy. A poet cannot think of him without being in the same rapture Lucretius is in when Epicurus comes in his way.