The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Band 301790 |
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... lies hid in years to come , That shall in William's god - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age ; Hibernian fields shall here thy conquests show , And Boyne be fung , when it has ceas'd to flow ; Here Gallic labours ...
... lies hid in years to come , That shall in William's god - like acts engage , And with his battles warm a future age ; Hibernian fields shall here thy conquests show , And Boyne be fung , when it has ceas'd to flow ; Here Gallic labours ...
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... lies fmoking on the ground . His toils , for no ignoble ends defign'd , Promote the common welfare of mankind ; No wild ambition moves , but Europe's fears , The cries of orphans , and the widow's tears : Oppreft Religion gives the ...
... lies fmoking on the ground . His toils , for no ignoble ends defign'd , Promote the common welfare of mankind ; No wild ambition moves , but Europe's fears , The cries of orphans , and the widow's tears : Oppreft Religion gives the ...
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... them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in restlefs errors roll , The fea lies open now to either pole : Now may we fafely use the northern gales , And 12 ADDISON's POEM s .
... them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in restlefs errors roll , The fea lies open now to either pole : Now may we fafely use the northern gales , And 12 ADDISON's POEM s .
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... lies too plain below . We view well - pleas'd at diftance all the fights , Of arms and palfries , battles , fields , and fights , And damfels in diftrefs , and courteous knights . But when we look too near , the fhades decay , And all ...
... lies too plain below . We view well - pleas'd at diftance all the fights , Of arms and palfries , battles , fields , and fights , And damfels in diftrefs , and courteous knights . But when we look too near , the fhades decay , And all ...
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... lies . Immortal glories in my mind revive , And in my foul a thousand paffions strive , When Rome's exalted beauties I defcry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie . An amphitheatre's amazing height Here fills my eye with terror and delight ...
... lies . Immortal glories in my mind revive , And in my foul a thousand paffions strive , When Rome's exalted beauties I defcry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie . An amphitheatre's amazing height Here fills my eye with terror and delight ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ÆNEID æther againſt amidſt arms atque behold blood bluſhes breaſt Britiſh Cadmus Cæfar caft Cato Cato's cauſe charms courſe death DECIUS deſcribed deſcription eaſe Ev'n eyes faid fame fate father fays fecret fhall fhining fide fight fire firft firſt fome forrows foul friends ftand ftill ftorms ftreams ftrength fubject fuch fword Georgic goddeſs gods grief heart heaven himſelf Jove JUBA laſt loft LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA MARCUS mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt numbers Numidian nunc nymph o'er Ovid paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure Poet PORTIUS praiſe prince purſue rage raiſe reft reſt rife riſe Roman Rome ſcenes ſee SEMPRONIUS ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhore ſhould ſhow ſkies ſky ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtill ſtood ſuch SYPHAX tears thee theſe thoſe thou thoughts thouſand thunder toils verſe view'd Virgil virgin virtue Whilft winds wiſh youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 232 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Seite 338 - ... 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 236 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Seite 232 - In foreign realms and lands remote, Supported by Thy care, Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air.
Seite 337 - 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 284 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Seite 259 - And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome" Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood.
Seite 117 - Their stated course, and leave the beaten track. The youth was in a maze, nor did he know Which way to turn the reins, or where to go ; Nor wou'd the horses, had he known, obey.
Seite 233 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Seite 261 - Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.