The Art of English Poetry: Containing. Rules for making verses. A collection of the most natural, agreeable, and sublime thoughts ... that are to be found in the best English poets. A dictionary of rhymes. I.. II.. III.Hitch and Hawes, 1762 |
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Pagina 20
... Arms are on the Rhine victorious . prove that this Verfe wants a Syllable of its due Mea- fure , we need but add one to it ; as , Your Arms are on the Rhine victorious now . Where , tho ' the Syllable now be added to the Verfe , it has ...
... Arms are on the Rhine victorious . prove that this Verfe wants a Syllable of its due Mea- fure , we need but add one to it ; as , Your Arms are on the Rhine victorious now . Where , tho ' the Syllable now be added to the Verfe , it has ...
Pagina 34
... Arm , an Angel's Face . } Nor do the Verses of these Stanzas always contain a like Number of Syllables ; for the Firft and Third may haveTen , the fecond but eight ; as , Men without Love have oft fo cunning grown , That fomething like ...
... Arm , an Angel's Face . } Nor do the Verses of these Stanzas always contain a like Number of Syllables ; for the Firft and Third may haveTen , the fecond but eight ; as , Men without Love have oft fo cunning grown , That fomething like ...
Pagina 51
... Arms to mighty Jove ; Mov'd all his hundred Hands , provok'd the War , Defy'd the forky Lightning from afar : At fifty Mouths his flaming Breath expires , And Flash for Flash returns , and Fires for Fires : In his right Hand as many ...
... Arms to mighty Jove ; Mov'd all his hundred Hands , provok'd the War , Defy'd the forky Lightning from afar : At fifty Mouths his flaming Breath expires , And Flash for Flash returns , and Fires for Fires : In his right Hand as many ...
Pagina 56
... Arms were seen , When Thefeus met in Fight their Maiden Queen , Such to the Field Penthefilea led , From the fierce Virgin when the Grecians filed : With fuch return'd triumphant from the War ; Her Maids with Cries attend the lofty Car ...
... Arms were seen , When Thefeus met in Fight their Maiden Queen , Such to the Field Penthefilea led , From the fierce Virgin when the Grecians filed : With fuch return'd triumphant from the War ; Her Maids with Cries attend the lofty Car ...
Pagina 57
... Arms upon her Shoulders found ; And when too clofely prefs'd , fhe quits the Ground , ( Virg . From her bent Bow the fends a backward Wound . Dryd . Penthefilea there , with haughty Grace , Leads to the War an Amazonian Race : In their ...
... Arms upon her Shoulders found ; And when too clofely prefs'd , fhe quits the Ground , ( Virg . From her bent Bow the fends a backward Wound . Dryd . Penthefilea there , with haughty Grace , Leads to the War an Amazonian Race : In their ...
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Pagina 139 - know not where, To lie in cold Obftruftion, and to rot; This fenfible warm Motion to become A kneaded Clod ; and the delighted Spirit To bathe in fiery Floods, or to refide In thrilling Regions of thick-ribbed Ice : To be imprifon'd in the viewlefs Winds, Or blown with reftlefs Violence about The pendant World; or to be
Pagina 251 - Summer in a Sea of Glory, But far beyond my Depth. My high-blown Pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with Service, to the Mercy Of a rude Stream that muft for ever hide me.
Pagina 124 - In the Sun's Orb, made porous to receive, And drink the liquid Light; firm to retain Her gather'd Beams : Great Palace now of Light; Hither, as to their Fountain, other Stars Repairing, in their Golden Urns draw Light; And hence the Morning Planet gilds her Horns.
Pagina 188 - What Tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive Bands his Chariot-Wheels ! Have you climb'd up to Walls and Battlements, To Towers and Windows, yea to Chimney-Tops, Your Infants in your Arms, and there have fate The live-long Day with patient
Pagina 165 - and when h'as done^ The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own Light, They drink and revel all the Night. Nothing in Nature's fober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high : Fill all the Glafles there; for why Should ev'ry
Pagina 129 - 1 had rather be a Toad, And live upon the Vapour of a Dungeon, Than keep a Corner in the Thing I love For others Ufes, Yet 'tis the Plague of Great Ones : Prerogativ'd are they lefs than the Bafe ; . 'Tis Deftiny
Pagina 247 - this has done. My Joy, my Grief, my Hope, my Love, Did all within this Circle move. A narrow Compafs! And yet there Dwelt all that's Good, and all that's Fair. Give me but what this Ribband bound;
Pagina 295 - deep the Groans : Defpair Tended the Sick, bufy from Couch to Couch ; And over them triumphant Death his Dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, tho' oft invok'd With Vows, as their chief Good and final Hope. Milt. Immediately a Place
Pagina 41 - tell, ye Sons of Light, Angels ! for you behold him, and with Songs, And Choral Symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoicing, you in Heaven. On Earth, join all ye Creatures, to extol
Pagina 265 - and in the Jaws of Hell, Revengeful Cares, and fullen Sorrows dwell; And pale Difeafes, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unrefifted Rage : Here Toils, and Death, and Death's Half-brother Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their Gentry keep ; With anxious Pleafures of a guilty Mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind