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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... thou the power whose name it bears , Relieve th ' oppress'd , and wipe the widow's tears . I , wretched I , have other fortune seen , The wife of Capaneus , and once a queen : At Thebes he fell , curst be the fatal day ! And all the rest ...
... thou the power whose name it bears , Relieve th ' oppress'd , and wipe the widow's tears . I , wretched I , have other fortune seen , The wife of Capaneus , and once a queen : At Thebes he fell , curst be the fatal day ! And all the rest ...
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... thou art Venus ( for thy charms confess That face was form'd in Heaven , nor art thou less ; Disguis'd in habit , undisguis'd in shape ) O help us captives from our chains t ' escape ; But if our doom be past , in bonds to lie For life ...
... thou art Venus ( for thy charms confess That face was form'd in Heaven , nor art thou less ; Disguis'd in habit , undisguis'd in shape ) O help us captives from our chains t ' escape ; But if our doom be past , in bonds to lie For life ...
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... thou , traitor , on the plain Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whose faith I trust , and on whose care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than ...
... thou , traitor , on the plain Appeach my honour , or thine own maintain , Since thou art of my council , and the friend Whose faith I trust , and on whose care depend : And would'st thou court my lady's love , which I Much rather than ...
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With Biographical and Critical Prefaces John Aikin. But thou , false Arcite , never shalt obtain Thy bad pretence ; I told thee first my pain : For first my love began ere thine was born ; Thou , as my council , and my brother sworn ...
With Biographical and Critical Prefaces John Aikin. But thou , false Arcite , never shalt obtain Thy bad pretence ; I told thee first my pain : For first my love began ere thine was born ; Thou , as my council , and my brother sworn ...
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... thou , if Fortune will thy suit advance , Love on , nor envy me my equal chance : For I must love , and am resolv'd to try My fate , or failing in th ' adventure , die . " Great was their strife , which hourly was renew'd , Till each ...
... thou , if Fortune will thy suit advance , Love on , nor envy me my equal chance : For I must love , and am resolv'd to try My fate , or failing in th ' adventure , die . " Great was their strife , which hourly was renew'd , Till each ...
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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.