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Seite 122 - Oh ! while along the stream of time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Seite iv - ... of giving a public testimony of my sincere and respectful affection for him, whose friendship I consider as one of the most grateful circumstances of my life, since the value of his character can only be known by those who live with him in the habit of intimacy ; but, alas ! such knowledge leads us continually to lament the condition of mankind, in which, at a certain period, every warning of mortality makes us dread a dissolution of the dearest connections, while we are tempted to regret, that...
Seite 121 - Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode, Where we must land some of our passengers, And light this weary vessell of her lode : Here she a while may make her safe abode, Till she repaired have her tackles spent, And wants supplide ; And then againe abroad On the long voiage whereto she is bent : Well may she speede, and fairely finish her intent!
Seite 165 - With two deep wounds he galls his thigh and side; And fast from either flows the crimson tide. Stern Rodomont, who in his hold retain'd The hilt and broken blade that yet remain'd, With these a dreadful stroke, in fell intent, At utmost strength on good Rogero sent. Rogero, who his fair advantage knew, Had seiz'd...
Seite iii - Among those whose good wishes have always gone along with the translator, it is with peculiar satisfaction that I can insert the name of Dr. Samuel Johnson ; and I am happy in this opportunity of giving a public testimony of my sincere and respectful affection for him, whose friendship I consider as one of the most grateful circumstances of my life, since the value of his character can only be known by those who live with him in the...
Seite 121 - The very poetical opening of this last book, with the metaphor drawn from a ship, appears to be imitated by Spenser in the first book of his Fairy Queen, Canto xii. Behold I see the haven nigh at hand, To which I...
Seite 123 - Milan, who at fourteen years of age gave surprising marks of genius; she was learned in the Latin and Greek languages, and from her excellence in poetry is said by the poet to have been bred in the cave of Apollo, where the Sybils delivered their oracles in verse.
Seite 103 - Then, in his stead, from all disguis'd, to place In Grecian garb array'd the dame to face. Now to his friend the secret of his breast He told, and urg'd, with prayers, the dear request. Him, for his sake, beneath a borrow'd name, With foreign vesture clad, to meet the dame.
Seite 47 - A happy life thou gain'st, no more to know The toils and changes of our world below. Forgive me now th' involuntary tear, That mourns I still am doom'd to linger here : I weep not thou art fled from earth's annoy, 1275 But weep I cannot live with thee in joy. Here am I left—thou taken from my sight, What is there more t
Seite 166 - vantage now he saw, and close pursued, And where the Pagan's deepest wounds he view'd, Where most he saw the purple current flow, Close and more close he press'd the

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