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Pagina 41
... Father of the Poets , that Poetry comprehended all the Powers of her Sifter Art . But I am afraid it would be too bold in any Writer to call APELLES , or PROTOGE- NES , the moft excellent of the Poets . For tho ' no Painter can arrive ...
... Father of the Poets , that Poetry comprehended all the Powers of her Sifter Art . But I am afraid it would be too bold in any Writer to call APELLES , or PROTOGE- NES , the moft excellent of the Poets . For tho ' no Painter can arrive ...
Pagina 55
... Father , the other her Child : the lively Anguish , mixed with the most tender Looks of parental and filial Love , which the expreffes , never fails to raise in the Spectator of this Mafter - piece of Art , the most heart - ennobling ...
... Father , the other her Child : the lively Anguish , mixed with the most tender Looks of parental and filial Love , which the expreffes , never fails to raise in the Spectator of this Mafter - piece of Art , the most heart - ennobling ...
Pagina 83
... Father , Son , and Brother , firft were knowi * . Give me leave , therefore , as the Tie of Blood betwixt us may in fome measure authorize the Freedom , and the Friend- ship we have always had for each other still more , to mix with the ...
... Father , Son , and Brother , firft were knowi * . Give me leave , therefore , as the Tie of Blood betwixt us may in fome measure authorize the Freedom , and the Friend- ship we have always had for each other still more , to mix with the ...
Pagina 133
... Father , and all the Charms of her Mo- ther , became , as he grew up , the chief Favourite both of Gods and Men . In the cœleftial Banquets fhe always fat next to VENUS , and on Earth had the Honour attributed to her of infpiring ...
... Father , and all the Charms of her Mo- ther , became , as he grew up , the chief Favourite both of Gods and Men . In the cœleftial Banquets fhe always fat next to VENUS , and on Earth had the Honour attributed to her of infpiring ...
Pagina 138
... fuddenly rendered the most miferable of Men , by the Death of his Wife ASPASIA , who dying in Childbed , left him the Confola- tion alone of being Father to an Infant which was a living Image of its deceased Mother . which 138 ESSAY I.
... fuddenly rendered the most miferable of Men , by the Death of his Wife ASPASIA , who dying in Childbed , left him the Confola- tion alone of being Father to an Infant which was a living Image of its deceased Mother . which 138 ESSAY I.
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Pagina 128 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Pagina 193 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Pagina 37 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Pagina 24 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful...
Pagina 126 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Pagina 38 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Pagina 51 - When first with fresh-born vigour he inhales The balmy breeze, and feels the blessed sun Warm at his bosom, from the springs of life Chasing oppressive damps and languid pain!
Pagina 14 - Were destin'd ; some within a finer mould She wrought, and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of himself.
Pagina 24 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Pagina 17 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth, In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...