The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 191790 |
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... race renew'd ; Their corps to perish , but their kind to laft , So much the deathlefs plant the dying fruit furpafs'd .. Panting and penfive now she rang'd alone , And wander'd in the kingdoms , once her own . The common hunt , though ...
... race renew'd ; Their corps to perish , but their kind to laft , So much the deathlefs plant the dying fruit furpafs'd .. Panting and penfive now she rang'd alone , And wander'd in the kingdoms , once her own . The common hunt , though ...
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... race their blasphemy renew'd , And nature's king through nature's opticks view'd . Revers'd they view'd him leffen'd to their eye , Nor in an infant could a God defcry . New swarming fects to this obliquely tend , Hence they began , and ...
... race their blasphemy renew'd , And nature's king through nature's opticks view'd . Revers'd they view'd him leffen'd to their eye , Nor in an infant could a God defcry . New swarming fects to this obliquely tend , Hence they began , and ...
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... race Appear with belly gaunt , and famifh'd face : Never was fo deform'd a beast of grace . His ragged tail betwixt his legs he wears , Clofe clap'd for fhame ; but his rough creft he rears , And pricks up his predeftinating ears . His ...
... race Appear with belly gaunt , and famifh'd face : Never was fo deform'd a beast of grace . His ragged tail betwixt his legs he wears , Clofe clap'd for fhame ; but his rough creft he rears , And pricks up his predeftinating ears . His ...
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... race ; Because of Wickliff's brood no mark he brings , But his innate antipathy to kings . Thefe laft deduce him from th ' Helvetian kind , " Who near the Leman - lake his confort lin'd : " That fiery Zuinglius firft th ' affection bred ...
... race ; Because of Wickliff's brood no mark he brings , But his innate antipathy to kings . Thefe laft deduce him from th ' Helvetian kind , " Who near the Leman - lake his confort lin'd : " That fiery Zuinglius firft th ' affection bred ...
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... race began . O happy pair , how well have you increas'd ! What ills in church and ftate have you redrefs'd ? With teeth untry'd , and rudiments of claws , Your firft effay was on your native laws : Thofe having torn with ease , and ...
... race began . O happy pair , how well have you increas'd ! What ills in church and ftate have you redrefs'd ? With teeth untry'd , and rudiments of claws , Your firft effay was on your native laws : Thofe having torn with ease , and ...
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Page 201 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 194 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 219 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 202 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Page 19 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.
Page 216 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 214 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 112 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Page 219 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire. At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame...
Page 19 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...