The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill, Volumen211807 |
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... stand or fall . Now , for my converts , who , you say , unfed , Have follow'd me for miracles of bread ; Judge not by hear - say ; but observe , at least , If , since their change , their loaves have been increas'd . The Lion buys no ...
... stand or fall . Now , for my converts , who , you say , unfed , Have follow'd me for miracles of bread ; Judge not by hear - say ; but observe , at least , If , since their change , their loaves have been increas'd . The Lion buys no ...
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... stand , 700 Arm'd by a weapon put into hand ; Yet still remember that you wield a sword Forg'd by your foes against your sov'reign lord ; Design'd to hew th ' imperial cedar down , Defraud succession , and dis - heir the crown . T'abbor ...
... stand , 700 Arm'd by a weapon put into hand ; Yet still remember that you wield a sword Forg'd by your foes against your sov'reign lord ; Design'd to hew th ' imperial cedar down , Defraud succession , and dis - heir the crown . T'abbor ...
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John Bell. Would you to that unrighteous title stand , Left by the villain's will to heir the land ? More just was Judas , who his Saviour sold ; The sacrilegious bribe he could not hold ; Norhang in peace , before he render'd back the ...
John Bell. Would you to that unrighteous title stand , Left by the villain's will to heir the land ? More just was Judas , who his Saviour sold ; The sacrilegious bribe he could not hold ; Norhang in peace , before he render'd back the ...
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... stands , 779 T ' unite the Trojan and the Latin bands ; And , that the league more firmly may be tied , Demand the fair Lavinia for your bride . Thus plausibly you veil th ' intended wrong , But still you bring your exil'd gods along ...
... stands , 779 T ' unite the Trojan and the Latin bands ; And , that the league more firmly may be tied , Demand the fair Lavinia for your bride . Thus plausibly you veil th ' intended wrong , But still you bring your exil'd gods along ...
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... stands in day - light , and disdains to hide ) An act to which by honour he is tied , 880 A gen'rous , laudable , and kingly pride . Your Test he would repeal , his peers restore ; This when he says he means , he means no more . Well ...
... stands in day - light , and disdains to hide ) An act to which by honour he is tied , 880 A gen'rous , laudable , and kingly pride . Your Test he would repeal , his peers restore ; This when he says he means , he means no more . Well ...
Términos y frases comunes
Amyntas Arcite arms beauty began behold betwixt blood breast call'd Canterbury tales charms Chaucer court crime crowd damn'd dare death design'd DRYDEN DUCHESS of YORK Duke of Guise e'en Emily EPILOGUE ev'ry eyes face fair fame fate fear fight foes fools forc'd give grace happy hast heart Heav'n heav'nly honor JOHN DRYDEN kind king knight ladies laws learn'd liv'd live look'd lord lov'd mighty mind mortal Muse ne'er never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon peace Pirithous plac'd play pleas'd pleasure poets pow'r praise prince PROLOGUE queen race rais'd reign rest rhyme sacred satire scarce sigh sight Silent Woman soul sov'reign stage sure sweet Thebes thee Theseus thine thou thought thro true turn'd Twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse Virgil virtue whate'er Whigs wise write young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 70 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Página 6 - Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What' passion cannot Music raise and quell ? The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms.
Página 51 - Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years: Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Página 72 - He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Página 78 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Página 38 - She gave but glimpses of her glorious mind : And multitudes of virtues pass'd along ; Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Ambitious to be seen, and then make room For greater multitudes that were to come.
Página 96 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly ; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Página 69 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 134 - 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.
Página 75 - Tale, The Cock and the Fox, which I have translated, and some others, I may justly give our countryman the precedence in that part, since I can remember nothing of Ovid which was wholly his. Both of them understood the manners; under which name I comprehend the passions and, in a larger sense, the descriptions of persons and their very habits.