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Pagina 108
... fair Greek , whose name was Irene . The sultan invited her to embrace the law of the Prophet , and to grace his throne . Enraged at this intended marriage , the Janizaries formed a conspiracy to dethrone the emperor . To avert the ...
... fair Greek , whose name was Irene . The sultan invited her to embrace the law of the Prophet , and to grace his throne . Enraged at this intended marriage , the Janizaries formed a conspiracy to dethrone the emperor . To avert the ...
Pagina 146
... fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find some elegant retreat , Some hireling senator's deserted seat ; And stretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land , For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand ; There prune thy ...
... fair banks of Severn or of Trent ; There might'st thou find some elegant retreat , Some hireling senator's deserted seat ; And stretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land , For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand ; There prune thy ...
Pagina 148
... Fair Justice , then , without constraint ador'd , Held high the steady scale , but sheath'd the sword ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but ah ! how diff'rent from our own ! 38 Much could I add , -but see the ...
... Fair Justice , then , without constraint ador'd , Held high the steady scale , but sheath'd the sword ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but ah ! how diff'rent from our own ! 38 Much could I add , -but see the ...
Pagina 158
... fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise ; The fierce Croatian , and the wild Hussar , With ...
... fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the beacon's rousing blaze Spreads wide the hope of plunder and of praise ; The fierce Croatian , and the wild Hussar , With ...
Pagina 179
... , he bade the conquʼring fair Renounce her faith , and be the Queen of Turkey . The pious maid , with modest indignation , Threw back the glitt'ring bribe . DEMETRIUS . Celestial goodness ! It must , it must A TRAGEDY . 179.
... , he bade the conquʼring fair Renounce her faith , and be the Queen of Turkey . The pious maid , with modest indignation , Threw back the glitt'ring bribe . DEMETRIUS . Celestial goodness ! It must , it must A TRAGEDY . 179.
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Pagina 152 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Pagina 153 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Pagina 115 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Pagina 157 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Pagina 150 - The liv'r.it£i army, and the menial lord. With age, with cares, with maladies, oppress'd, He seeks the refuge of monastic rest. Grief aids disease, remember'd folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings.
Pagina 28 - The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Pagina 151 - Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter...
Pagina 156 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and...
Pagina 36 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Pagina 158 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.