Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1784 |
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Pagina 65
... Pagan hands had ftain'd the troubled feas ; With ships they made the spoiled merchant mourn ; With fhips their city and themselves are torn . 20 One fquadron of our winged castles fent , O'erthrew their Fiij MISCELLANIES 65.
... Pagan hands had ftain'd the troubled feas ; With ships they made the spoiled merchant mourn ; With fhips their city and themselves are torn . 20 One fquadron of our winged castles fent , O'erthrew their Fiij MISCELLANIES 65.
Pagina 110
... spoils of cities overthrown Had proftrated to Mars , could well advise Th ' advent'rous lover how to gain the prize . Nor lefs may Jupiter to gold afcribe , For when he turn'd himself into a bribe , Who can blame Danae , or the brazen ...
... spoils of cities overthrown Had proftrated to Mars , could well advise Th ' advent'rous lover how to gain the prize . Nor lefs may Jupiter to gold afcribe , For when he turn'd himself into a bribe , Who can blame Danae , or the brazen ...
Pagina 117
... spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before . PRO . Plays and romances read and feen , do fall In our opinions ; yet not seen at all , Whom would they please ? To an heroick tale Would you not liften , left it ...
... spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before . PRO . Plays and romances read and feen , do fall In our opinions ; yet not seen at all , Whom would they please ? To an heroick tale Would you not liften , left it ...
Pagina 132
... spoil forgot , their valour's prize ) All labour now to fave their enemies . How frail our paffions ! how foon changed are Our wrath and fury to a friendly care ! 95 They that but now for honour and for plate Made the fea blush with ...
... spoil forgot , their valour's prize ) All labour now to fave their enemies . How frail our paffions ! how foon changed are Our wrath and fury to a friendly care ! 95 They that but now for honour and for plate Made the fea blush with ...
Pagina 145
... grove . Tho ' by rude hands their nefts are spoil'd , There the next spring again they build . * Henrietta Maria , queen - dowager of K. Charles I. Volume I. N ΤΟ Accufing fome malignant star , Not Britain , for that MISCELLANIES . 145.
... grove . Tho ' by rude hands their nefts are spoil'd , There the next spring again they build . * Henrietta Maria , queen - dowager of K. Charles I. Volume I. N ΤΟ Accufing fome malignant star , Not Britain , for that MISCELLANIES . 145.
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againſt beauty beſt blood boaſt bold brave breaſt bright cauſe cife court defign defire Earl EDMUND WALLER Engliſh ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes facred fair falutes fame fate fays feems feen fenfe fhall fhining fhips fide fight fince fing firſt flain flame fleep foes fome foon foul ftill fuch fweet grace Heav'n herſelf himſelf Houſes iſland itſelf Jove King Lady laft laſt lefs leſs Lord Lucretius Maid's Tragedy meaſure mind moſt Mufe Muſe muſt noble numbers nymph o'er occafion paffion peace perfon Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure poem poet pow'r praiſe prefent Prince Queen rage raiſe reaſon reft rife royal ſea ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſpoil ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet taſte tempeft thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro uſe verfe verſes vex'd Waller whofe whoſe wind youth
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Pagina 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Pagina 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Pagina xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Pagina xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Pagina 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Pagina 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Pagina 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Pagina xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Pagina 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove