PoemsM. Jones, 1803 - 235 σελίδες |
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antient Antistrophe art thou ARVIRAGUS ATHELWOLD AULUS DIDIUS BARD beauty Behold Belinus bless blest bold breast breath Brigantes bright Britons brother brow Cæsar captive CARACTACUS CARACTACUS's charm CHORUS constant wife daughter death Dost thou doth drama dread Druid e'er Earl EDGAR EDWIN ELFRIDA ELIDURUS Ev'n ev'ry EVELINA fair falchion fate father fear flame fled give gods grace grief grove hail hallow'd Hark harp hast head hear heart heav'n holy honours hour immortal instant King kneel light Lord lyre maid Mona Muse o'er ORGAR pardon peace perchance pity praise prepar'd Prince Queen Romans Rome round sacred sage scene SEMICHORUS shade shalt sigh soft solemn song soul Strabo strain sure sword tears tell thee thine thro throne tongue trembling Twas VELLINUS Virgins virtue warble weep wretch yonder youth
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 47 - Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, And died.
Σελίδα 30 - Behold each neighb'ring monarch's tomb ; The trophied arch, the breathing bust, The laurel shades their sacred dust: While thou, vile Out-cast, on this hostile plain, Moulder'st, a vulgar corse, among the vulgar slain.
Σελίδα 42 - Or caught the orient blush of quick surprise, How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid lustre darted from her eyes ? Each look, each motion wak'da new-born grace, That o'er her form its transient glory cast : Some lovelier wonder soon usurp'd the place, Chas'd by a charm still lovelier than the last.
Σελίδα 138 - gainst Heav'n's will To violate their echoes : Patience here, Her meek hands folded on her modest breast, In mute submission lifts th' adoring eye, Ev'n to the storm that wrecks her.
Σελίδα 16 - When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Mem'ry and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth : Hence all thy classic...
Σελίδα 47 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if as fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
Σελίδα 191 - Julius feel, when, fir'd by it, our fathers First drove him recreant to his ships ; and ill Had far'd his second landing, but that fate Silenc'd the master Bard, who led the song.
Σελίδα 9 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart...
Σελίδα 12 - And every lily droop'd its silver head. Sad sympathy! yet sure his rightful meed Who charm'd all nature : well might Nature mourn Through all her choicest sweets Musaeus dead.
Σελίδα 198 - Now, thanks to the bright star that rul'd his birth ; Yes, he will soon return to claim my blessing, And he shall have it pour'd in tears of joy On his bold breast ! methought I heard a step : Is it not his ? BARD. 'Tis some of our own train, And as I think, they lead six Romans captive. CHORUS, CARACTACUS, CAPTIVES.