The Works of the English Poets: AddisonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Æneid arms aſk atque behold bleſt boſom breaſt Cæfar caſt Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe death DECIUS deſcription diſtant doſt eaſe Ev'n eyes faid falſe fame fate father fecret fide fight fire firſt forrows foul friends friendſhip fuch Georgic gods grief heart heaven itſelf Jove JUBA juſt laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA MARCUS mighty moſt Muſe muſt numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion paſſion Pentheus pleaſing pleaſure Poet PORTIUS praiſe prince rage raiſe reſt rife rifu riſe Roman Rome ſays ſcenes ſcorn ſee ſeen SEMPRONIUS ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſmiles ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſteeds ſtill ſtood ſtorms ſtory ſtrains ſtreams ſtrength ſtrike ſubject ſuch ſwell ſword SYPHAX tears thee theſe thoſe thou thoughts thunder verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue waſte Whilft whoſe youth
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Seite 225 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Seite 329 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Seite 330 - ... there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Seite 45 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Seite 153 - Who now appear'd but one continu'd wound. With dropping tears his bitter fate he moans, And fills the mountain with his dying groans. His servants with a piteous look he spies, And turns about his supplicating eyes.
Seite 35 - Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore, Can charm an understanding age no more; The long-spun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below.
Seite 100 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin, and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure, amidst a falling world.
Seite 210 - Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses...
Seite 249 - ... storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Seite 278 - Rome will rejoice, and cast its eyes on Cato, As on the second of mankind. CATO. No more! I must not think of life on such conditions. DEC. Caesar is well acquainted with your virtues, And therefore sets this value on your life: Let him but know the price of Cato's friendship, And name your terms.