Annus mirabilisClarendon Press, 1915 - 64 Seiten |
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... each ship resounds with joy , And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy , And , slumbering , smile at the imagin'd flame . Not so the Holland fleet , who , tir'd and ANNUS MIRABILIS .
... each ship resounds with joy , And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy , And , slumbering , smile at the imagin'd flame . Not so the Holland fleet , who , tir'd and ANNUS MIRABILIS .
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John Dryden. Not so the Holland fleet , who , tir'd and done , Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie ; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run , ( Vast bulks , which little souls but ill supply . ) In dreams they fearful ...
John Dryden. Not so the Holland fleet , who , tir'd and done , Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie ; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run , ( Vast bulks , which little souls but ill supply . ) In dreams they fearful ...
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... Holland grown , Crouching at home and cruel when abroad ; Scarce leaving us the means to claim our own , Our King they courted and our merchants awed . 2 Trade , which like blood should circularly flow , Stopped in their channels ...
... Holland grown , Crouching at home and cruel when abroad ; Scarce leaving us the means to claim our own , Our King they courted and our merchants awed . 2 Trade , which like blood should circularly flow , Stopped in their channels ...
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... And precious sand from southern climates brought , The fatal regions where the war begun . • The Admiral of Holland . f Southern climates . Guinea 25 Like hunted castors conscious of their store , Their 4 ANNUS MIRABILIS , 1666 .
... And precious sand from southern climates brought , The fatal regions where the war begun . • The Admiral of Holland . f Southern climates . Guinea 25 Like hunted castors conscious of their store , Their 4 ANNUS MIRABILIS , 1666 .
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... Holland coast And parents ' arms in vain stretched from the shore . 34 This careful husband had been long away Whom his chaste wife and little children mourn , Who on their fingers learned to tell the day On which their father promised ...
... Holland coast And parents ' arms in vain stretched from the shore . 34 This careful husband had been long away Whom his chaste wife and little children mourn , Who on their fingers learned to tell the day On which their father promised ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Albemarle Albion and Albanius ANNUS MIRABILIS appeared Astraea Redux battle behold Belgian boast C. H. FIRTH cannon coast courage Creusa dare doom Dryden Dryden's note Duke Dutch fleet Edited by W. D. edition of 1688 England English eyes fame fate fear fight fire Fire of London flames flix France gallowglasses haste Heaven Holland JOHN DRYDEN June kerns King labour larks limbec Linstock London Loyal London martlet merchant mighty navy night noise numbers o'er ocean Omnia noctis erant original edition Palamon and Arcite passage Pepys poem prey Prince Rupert Proteus Remnants repair retire revised by C. H. rich rise ruin sails sear-cloth second Punic war seems Shakespeare ships shipwracked shore squadron stanza stay Tacitus Thou trine unknowing Uzza valour vessels victory Virgil W. D. CHRISTIE wealth wexing wide the curtains wind wings word
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Seite 52 - And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark : and there he died before God.
Seite xii - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Seite xiv - English fleet each ship resounds with joy, And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy, And, slumbering smile at the imagin'd flame.
Seite 57 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Seite 34 - The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic spectres to rejoice; About the fire into a dance they bend, And sing their sabbath notes with feeble voice.
Seite 11 - More fierce the important quarrel to decide: Like swans in long array his vessels show, Whose crests advancing do the waves divide. 6 ? They charge, recharge, and all along the sea They drive and squander the huge Belgian fleet; Berkeley alone, who nearest danger lay, Did a like fate with lost Creusa meet.
Seite 60 - I then went towards Islington and Highgate, where one might have seen 200,000 people of all ranks and degrees dispersed and lying along by their heaps of what they could save from the fire, deploring their loss, and though ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Seite 23 - Some drive old oakum through each seam and rift: Their left-hand does the calking-iron guide, The rattling mallet with the right they lift. With boiling pitch another near at hand (From friendly Sweden brought) the seams instops; Which, well paid o'er, the salt-sea waves withstand, And shake them from the rising beak in drops.
Seite 33 - The diligence of trades and noiseful gain, And luxury more late, asleep were laid : All was the Night's ; and in her silent reign No sound the rest of Nature did invade.
Seite 26 - I foretel, from your auspicious care, Who great in search of God and Nature grow ; Who best your wise Creator's praise declare, Since best to praise his works is best to know.