Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 3John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 pages |
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... dy'd to sanguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that victory their own presage . He prais'd their ardour ; inly pleas'd ...
... dy'd to sanguine hue . High on his pointed lance his pennon bore His Cretan fight , the conquer'd Minotaur : The soldiers shout around with generous rage , And in that victory their own presage . He prais'd their ardour ; inly pleas'd ...
Page 19
... dy'd , as ancient stories tell , His fellow to redeem him went to Hell . But to pursue my tale : to welcome home His warlike brother is Pirithous come : Arcite of Thebes was known in arms long since , Book 1 . 19 PALAMON AND ARCITE .
... dy'd , as ancient stories tell , His fellow to redeem him went to Hell . But to pursue my tale : to welcome home His warlike brother is Pirithous come : Arcite of Thebes was known in arms long since , Book 1 . 19 PALAMON AND ARCITE .
Page 47
... dy'd : His hounds , unknowing of his change , pursue The chase , and their mistaken master slew . Peneian Daphne too was there to see , Apollo's love before , and now his tree : Th ' adjoining fane th ' assembled Greeks express'd , And ...
... dy'd : His hounds , unknowing of his change , pursue The chase , and their mistaken master slew . Peneian Daphne too was there to see , Apollo's love before , and now his tree : Th ' adjoining fane th ' assembled Greeks express'd , And ...
Page 77
... dy'd . But he , their king , was labouring in his mind , A fitting place for funeral pomps to find , Which were in honour of the dead design'd . And , after long debate , at last he found ( As Love itself had mark'd the spot of ground ) ...
... dy'd . But he , their king , was labouring in his mind , A fitting place for funeral pomps to find , Which were in honour of the dead design'd . And , after long debate , at last he found ( As Love itself had mark'd the spot of ground ) ...
Page 91
... dy'd . Loth to betray a husband and a prince , But she must burst , or blab : and no pretence Of honour ty'd her tongue from self - defence . A marshy ground commodiously was near , Thither she ran , and held her breath for fear , १ ...
... dy'd . Loth to betray a husband and a prince , But she must burst , or blab : and no pretence Of honour ty'd her tongue from self - defence . A marshy ground commodiously was near , Thither she ran , and held her breath for fear , १ ...
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Ah willow Arcite arm'd arms beauteous behold blood bore breast breath call'd Chanticleer charms coursers Creon crown'd cry'd Cymon dame death dream dy'd Earth Emily ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire flames forc'd Fortune Gaul grace green ground grove hand happy heart Heaven Hesiod honour horrour join'd Jove kind king knight labour ladies laurel light liv'd look'd lord lov'd Lysimachus maid mind mortal Muse Nature's never NICHOLAS ROWE numbers nymphs o'er pain Palamon pass'd Philostratus Pirithous plac'd plain pleas'd pointed lance prepar'd prescience prey pride prince proud queen race rais'd ravish'd receiv'd renown'd resolv'd rest Reynard Rhodian rich rise secret seem'd shade shine sigh'd sight sing slain song soul Splendid Shilling steed stood sung sweet sword Thebes thee Theseus thine THOMAS PARNELL thou thought troop turn'd Twas virtue vows wind wine wood youth
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Page 2 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 3 - Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 104 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Page 213 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm...
Page 6 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Page 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 276 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Page 209 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Page 169 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire ; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. " Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay ; In narrow mazes oft it seem'd to meet, . And look'd as lightly ^press'd by fairy feet.
Page 274 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.