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Pagina 5
... I write ; For I for pay against my conscience fight . § Sir Roger L'Estrange , whose skill in music is said to have amused Crom well , who had some turn that way . Of the poetical merits of the Elegy , we have HEROIC STANZAS . 5.
... I write ; For I for pay against my conscience fight . § Sir Roger L'Estrange , whose skill in music is said to have amused Crom well , who had some turn that way . Of the poetical merits of the Elegy , we have HEROIC STANZAS . 5.
Pagina 10
... fighting , and essayed To staunch the blood , by breathing of the vein . † XIII . Swift and resistless through the land he past , Like that bold Greek , who did the East subdue ; And made to battles such heroic haste , As if on wings of ...
... fighting , and essayed To staunch the blood , by breathing of the vein . † XIII . Swift and resistless through the land he past , Like that bold Greek , who did the East subdue ; And made to battles such heroic haste , As if on wings of ...
Pagina 16
... fighting , and essayed To staunch the blood , by breathing of the vein . St. XII . p . 10 . This passage , which seems to imply nothing farther than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a conclusion , was afterwards ...
... fighting , and essayed To staunch the blood , by breathing of the vein . St. XII . p . 10 . This passage , which seems to imply nothing farther than that Cromwell conducted the war so as to push it to a conclusion , was afterwards ...
Pagina 22
... fighting , which the inveteracy of civil war had introduced , asto- nished the French by their audacity , and their contempt of the usual military precautions and calculations . There is a curious account , by Sir Thomas Morgan , of ...
... fighting , which the inveteracy of civil war had introduced , asto- nished the French by their audacity , and their contempt of the usual military precautions and calculations . There is a curious account , by Sir Thomas Morgan , of ...
Pagina 33
... fight ; Shocked by a covenanting League's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : § ' Till Fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her blows not shook , but riveted , his throne . SOME lazy ages , lost in sleep and ease ...
... fight ; Shocked by a covenanting League's vast powers , As holy and as catholic as ours : § ' Till Fortune's fruitless spite had made it known , Her blows not shook , but riveted , his throne . SOME lazy ages , lost in sleep and ease ...
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Pagina 85 - The vanquish'd fires withdraw from every place, Or, full with feeding, sink into a sleep: Each household genius shows again his face, And, from the hearths, the little Lares creep.
Pagina 142 - The diligence of trades and noiseful gain, And luxury more late, asleep were laid : All was the night's ; and in her silent reign No sound the rest of nature did invade.
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Pagina 245 - tis to rule; for that's a monarch's end. They call my tenderness of blood, my fear: Though manly tempers can the longest bear.
Pagina 193 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.