The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Τόμος 631790 |
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Σελίδα 29
... sky ; While winding round , diffus'd and deep , A river rolls with founding fweep . Of human art no traces near , I feem alone with Nature here ! Here are thy walks , O facred Health ! The monarch's blifs , the beggar's wealth ; The ...
... sky ; While winding round , diffus'd and deep , A river rolls with founding fweep . Of human art no traces near , I feem alone with Nature here ! Here are thy walks , O facred Health ! The monarch's blifs , the beggar's wealth ; The ...
Σελίδα 44
... sky , She rules the fable hour : and calls her train Of vifionary fears ; the shrouded ghost , The dream distressful , and th ' encumbent hag , That rife to Fancy's eye in horrid forms , While Reafon flumbering lies . At once they fly ...
... sky , She rules the fable hour : and calls her train Of vifionary fears ; the shrouded ghost , The dream distressful , and th ' encumbent hag , That rife to Fancy's eye in horrid forms , While Reafon flumbering lies . At once they fly ...
Σελίδα 46
... sky , In one bright robe , with heavenly tinctures gay . From this hoar hill , that climbs above the plain , Half - way up heaven ambitious , brown with woods Of broadeft shade , and terrass'd round with walks , Winding and wild , that ...
... sky , In one bright robe , with heavenly tinctures gay . From this hoar hill , that climbs above the plain , Half - way up heaven ambitious , brown with woods Of broadeft shade , and terrass'd round with walks , Winding and wild , that ...
Σελίδα 48
... sky , Wide and more wide , with mournful light around , On all fides burning ; now the face of things Difclofing ; fwallowed now in tenfold night . I Again Again the thunder's voice , with pealing roar , From MALLET'S POEM S.
... sky , Wide and more wide , with mournful light around , On all fides burning ; now the face of things Difclofing ; fwallowed now in tenfold night . I Again Again the thunder's voice , with pealing roar , From MALLET'S POEM S.
Σελίδα 50
... sky , Inflame the diftant azure : part below In level lines fhoot through the waving wood , Clad half in light , and half in pleafing shade , That lengthens o'er the lawn . Yon evening clouds , Lucid or dusk , with flamy purple edg'd ...
... sky , Inflame the diftant azure : part below In level lines fhoot through the waving wood , Clad half in light , and half in pleafing shade , That lengthens o'er the lawn . Yon evening clouds , Lucid or dusk , with flamy purple edg'd ...
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
afcending amid Amyntor arts aſk beauty behold bleft bloom bluſhing bofom boundleſs breaſt charms cloud courſe croud delight diftant divine earth eternal facred fafe fair fame fancy fate fcenes fecret fenfe fhade fhall fhore fighs filence firft firſt fix'd flame fmiles foft fome fong fons forrow foul ftill ftorm ftream fublime fuch funk fupreme grace hand heart heaven himſelf honour hour human juft laft laſt lefs light LXIII lyre meaſure Megacles mind moft mortal moſt Mufe muſt nature nature's night o'er paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure pomp praife praiſe rais'd reafon ridiculous rife round ſcene ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhould ſky ſmile ſpace ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſpring ſtate ſteps ſtill taſk tears thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand toil truth univerfal uſe virtue voice weft whofe whoſe wiſdom youth
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Σελίδα 229 - When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Σελίδα 282 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Σελίδα 327 - ... wherefore, with a rash impetuous aim, Seek ye those flowery joys with which the hand Of lavish Fancy paints each flattering scene Where Beauty seems to dwell, nor once inquire Where is the sanction of eternal truth, Or where the seal of undeceitful good, To save your search from folly ! Wanting these, Lo ! Beauty withers in your void embrace, And with the glittering of an idiot's toy Did Fancy mock your vows.
Σελίδα 221 - Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
Σελίδα 218 - Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?
Σελίδα 225 - Illumes the headstrong impulse of desire, And sanctifies his choice. The generous glebe Whose bosom smiles with verdure, the clear tract...
Σελίδα 215 - The active powers of man ! with wise intent The hand of Nature on peculiar minds Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil.
Σελίδα 216 - Enamour'd ; they partake the eternal joy. For as old Memnon's image long renown'd By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting, sounded through the warbling air. Unbidden strains ; even so did nature's hand...
Σελίδα 30 - But tofles thro' the midnight made, Of death, of life, alike afraid ; For ever fled to fhady cell, Where Temperance, where the Mufes dwell ; Thou oft art feen, at early dawn, Slow-pacing o'er the breezy lawn : Or on the brow...
Σελίδα 29 - The ftorm of fate, the cloud of years, Till Nature with thy parting light, Repofes late in Death's calm night : Fled from the trophy'd roofs of ftate, Abodes of fplendid pain, and hate ; Fled from the couch, where, in fweet fleep, Hot Riot would his anguifh fteep. But tofles thro...