The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - 1157 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... ground ; And the more folemn pomp was ftill deferr'd , Till new - born nature in fresh looks appear'd . Thus , royal fir , to fee you landed here , Was caufe enough of triumph for a year : Nor would your care those glorious joys repeat ...
... ground ; And the more folemn pomp was ftill deferr'd , Till new - born nature in fresh looks appear'd . Thus , royal fir , to fee you landed here , Was caufe enough of triumph for a year : Nor would your care those glorious joys repeat ...
Pagina 8
... ground ; Which in one blefling mix'd defcends on you ; As heighten'd fpirits fall in richer dew . Not that our wishes do increase your store , Full of yourself you can admit no more : We add not to your glory , but employ Our time ...
... ground ; Which in one blefling mix'd defcends on you ; As heighten'd fpirits fall in richer dew . Not that our wishes do increase your store , Full of yourself you can admit no more : We add not to your glory , but employ Our time ...
Pagina 10
... ground : Which fprouting leaves did fuddenly inclose , And peaceful olives fhaded as they rofe . How ftrangely active are the arts of peace , Whofe reftlefs motions lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noise ...
... ground : Which fprouting leaves did fuddenly inclose , And peaceful olives fhaded as they rofe . How ftrangely active are the arts of peace , Whofe reftlefs motions lefs than wars do cease ! Peace is not freed from labour but from noise ...
Pagina 29
... ground their journey blind , And climbing from below their fellows meet . CCXLVIII . Thus to fome defert plain , or old wood - fide , Dire night - hags come from far to dance their round ; And o'er broad rivers on their fiends they ride ...
... ground their journey blind , And climbing from below their fellows meet . CCXLVIII . Thus to fome defert plain , or old wood - fide , Dire night - hags come from far to dance their round ; And o'er broad rivers on their fiends they ride ...
Pagina 33
... ground th ' intranced wretches lie : So modern fops have fancy'd they would fly . VOL . VI . As the new earl with parts deferving praise , And wit enough to laugh at his own ways ; Yet lofes all foft days and fenfual nights , Kind ...
... ground th ' intranced wretches lie : So modern fops have fancy'd they would fly . VOL . VI . As the new earl with parts deferving praise , And wit enough to laugh at his own ways ; Yet lofes all foft days and fenfual nights , Kind ...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 168 - 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. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Pagina 264 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Pagina 147 - 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.
Pagina 106 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Pagina 41 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 233 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Pagina 133 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Pagina 215 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Pagina 176 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.