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... young Gentleman , . Upon young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire , On a Nephew , PAGE 102 114 117 • 121 . 140 144 146 . 146 On the Death of Mr. Purcell , 147 Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore , . 152 Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston , 153 Epitaph ...
... young Gentleman , . Upon young Mr. Rogers of Gloucestershire , On a Nephew , PAGE 102 114 117 • 121 . 140 144 146 . 146 On the Death of Mr. Purcell , 147 Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore , . 152 Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston , 153 Epitaph ...
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... Young eaglet , who thy nest thus soon forsook , So lofty and divine a course hast took , As all admire , before the down begin To peep , as yet , upon thy smoother chin ; 5 10 And , making heaven thy aim , hast had the grace 15 To look ...
... Young eaglet , who thy nest thus soon forsook , So lofty and divine a course hast took , As all admire , before the down begin To peep , as yet , upon thy smoother chin ; 5 10 And , making heaven thy aim , hast had the grace 15 To look ...
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... young , And few admired the native red and white , Till poet's dressed them up to charm the sight ; So beauty took on trust , and did engage For sums of praises till she came to age . But this long - growing debt to poetry , You justly ...
... young , And few admired the native red and white , Till poet's dressed them up to charm the sight ; So beauty took on trust , and did engage For sums of praises till she came to age . But this long - growing debt to poetry , You justly ...
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... young in love affairs of state ; 10 And both to wives and husbands show The vigour of a plenipo . Like mighty missioner you come A work of wondrous merit sure , 15 Ad Partes Infidelium . So far to go , so much t'endure ; And all to ...
... young in love affairs of state ; 10 And both to wives and husbands show The vigour of a plenipo . Like mighty missioner you come A work of wondrous merit sure , 15 Ad Partes Infidelium . So far to go , so much t'endure ; And all to ...
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... young fellow , who , without any of these foreign helps , has fire enough in his veins to enable him to do justice to Cælia whenever she demands a tribute from him . In a middle - aged man , I consider the bottle only as subservient to ...
... young fellow , who , without any of these foreign helps , has fire enough in his veins to enable him to do justice to Cælia whenever she demands a tribute from him . In a middle - aged man , I consider the bottle only as subservient to ...
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Page 186 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 171 - 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.
Page 173 - To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 162 - 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 77 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 210 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Page 187 - 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 172 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Jubal struck the chorded shell His listening brethren stood around. And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so wel1.
Page 190 - Now strike the golden lyre again! A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head! As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Page 230 - Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.