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Pagina 15
... round their choral Steps " Young Hours and genial Gales with conftant Hand , " Show'r'd Odors , Bloffoms , fhow'r'd ambrofial Dews , " And Spring's Elyfian Bloom * . Believe me , EUPHEMIUS , the ancient Co- rybantes , when they heard ...
... round their choral Steps " Young Hours and genial Gales with conftant Hand , " Show'r'd Odors , Bloffoms , fhow'r'd ambrofial Dews , " And Spring's Elyfian Bloom * . Believe me , EUPHEMIUS , the ancient Co- rybantes , when they heard ...
Pagina 16
... round their Arms " and Branches , becomes almost incorporated with them . " The flowering Smilax alfo is there in great Abun- " dance ; which running up the Acclivities of the Hills , " and fpreading the clofe Texture of it's Leaves and ...
... round their Arms " and Branches , becomes almost incorporated with them . " The flowering Smilax alfo is there in great Abun- " dance ; which running up the Acclivities of the Hills , " and fpreading the clofe Texture of it's Leaves and ...
Pagina 29
... round him caft his Azure Eyes " Where Ida's mifty Tops confus'dly rise ; " Beneath fair Ilion's glitt'ring Spires were seen ; " The crouded Ships , and fable Seas between . " There from the cryftal Chambers of the Main " Emerg'd he fate ...
... round him caft his Azure Eyes " Where Ida's mifty Tops confus'dly rise ; " Beneath fair Ilion's glitt'ring Spires were seen ; " The crouded Ships , and fable Seas between . " There from the cryftal Chambers of the Main " Emerg'd he fate ...
Pagina 53
... round him . Ambition ftood on one side , pointing to the Temple of Glory , and Care on the other Side , with a wrinkled Fore- head , looking at Neceffity . To these the Arts and Sciences were offering their Afsistance , and the Laws ...
... round him . Ambition ftood on one side , pointing to the Temple of Glory , and Care on the other Side , with a wrinkled Fore- head , looking at Neceffity . To these the Arts and Sciences were offering their Afsistance , and the Laws ...
Pagina 54
... round , ) and feemed to invite the approaching Gueft with a friendly Smile of Salutation , and not to deter him with the Looks of Horror , in which the Guilty are accustomed to paint him . — In these four Pictures , the Seafons of Life ...
... round , ) and feemed to invite the approaching Gueft with a friendly Smile of Salutation , and not to deter him with the Looks of Horror , in which the Guilty are accustomed to paint him . — In these four Pictures , the Seafons of Life ...
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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...