Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and LatinJ. Dodsley, 1785 - 620 páginas |
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... honour which they have fo feldom found , but which they fo juftly deferve , of being married to immortal verse . Not long af- terwards , LYCIDAS was imitated by Mr. Mafon . In the mean time , the PARADISE LOST was ac- quiring more ...
... honour which they have fo feldom found , but which they fo juftly deferve , of being married to immortal verse . Not long af- terwards , LYCIDAS was imitated by Mr. Mafon . In the mean time , the PARADISE LOST was ac- quiring more ...
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... honours of his country . I must add one or two more circumftances rela- ting to my revifal of this volume , which , although fuperficial and extrinfic , are neceffary parts of pre- vious information . I have found it expedient to alter ...
... honours of his country . I must add one or two more circumftances rela- ting to my revifal of this volume , which , although fuperficial and extrinfic , are neceffary parts of pre- vious information . I have found it expedient to alter ...
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... honour . V.1 . Yet once more , & c . ] The best poets imperceptibly adopt phrases and formularies from the writings of their contemporaries or imme- diate predeceffours . An Elegy on the death of the celebrated Coun- tefs of Pembroke ...
... honour . V.1 . Yet once more , & c . ] The best poets imperceptibly adopt phrases and formularies from the writings of their contemporaries or imme- diate predeceffours . An Elegy on the death of the celebrated Coun- tefs of Pembroke ...
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... honour'd flood , Smooth - fliding Mincius , crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds , And liftens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; He ask'd the waves , and ask ...
... honour'd flood , Smooth - fliding Mincius , crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds , And liftens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; He ask'd the waves , and ask ...
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... . The allufion is ge- neral , to inacceffible and uncultivated fcenes of nature , fuch as moun- tainous fituations afford , and which were beft adapted to the free and and And if I give thee honour due , Mirth , 42 L'ALLEGRO .
... . The allufion is ge- neral , to inacceffible and uncultivated fcenes of nature , fuch as moun- tainous fituations afford , and which were beft adapted to the free and and And if I give thee honour due , Mirth , 42 L'ALLEGRO .
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Página 267 - The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Página 10 - scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Página 31 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 92 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 43 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 4 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Página 350 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 34 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Página 63 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Página 74 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...