How to Read and DeclaimFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1779 - 428 pàgines |
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Pàgina 33
... honour'd womb Swell'd with the founder of immortal Rome . Decoy'd by fhows , the Sabine dames she led , And taught our vigorous youth the way to wed . Hence fprung the Romans , hence the race divine Through which great Cæfar draws his ...
... honour'd womb Swell'd with the founder of immortal Rome . Decoy'd by fhows , the Sabine dames she led , And taught our vigorous youth the way to wed . Hence fprung the Romans , hence the race divine Through which great Cæfar draws his ...
Pàgina 51
... honours of his arms aloud ; Then ftrutting near the lake , with looks elate , To all its nations threats approaching fate . And fuch his ftrength , the filver lakes around Might roll their waters o'er unpeopled ground . But powerful ...
... honours of his arms aloud ; Then ftrutting near the lake , with looks elate , To all its nations threats approaching fate . And fuch his ftrength , the filver lakes around Might roll their waters o'er unpeopled ground . But powerful ...
Pàgina 70
... honours made , Great Jove , the cry'd , This thing was fashion'd from my fide : His hands , his heart , his head , are mine ; ' Then what haft thou to call him thine ? Nay rather ask , the Monarch said , What boots his hand , his heart ...
... honours made , Great Jove , the cry'd , This thing was fashion'd from my fide : His hands , his heart , his head , are mine ; ' Then what haft thou to call him thine ? Nay rather ask , the Monarch said , What boots his hand , his heart ...
Pàgina 71
... honours on his head He just had got his pinions free , From his old fire , Eternity . A ferpent girdled round he wore , The tail within the mouth , before ; By which our almanacks are clear That learned Egypt meant the year . A staff he ...
... honours on his head He just had got his pinions free , From his old fire , Eternity . A ferpent girdled round he wore , The tail within the mouth , before ; By which our almanacks are clear That learned Egypt meant the year . A staff he ...
Pàgina 90
... honour'd . hand the facred volume bore , Her raiment glittering feem'd a filver white , And all her fweet companions fons of light . Straight as I gaz'd , my fear and wonder grew , Fear barr'd my voice , and wonder fix'd my view ; When ...
... honour'd . hand the facred volume bore , Her raiment glittering feem'd a filver white , And all her fweet companions fons of light . Straight as I gaz'd , my fear and wonder grew , Fear barr'd my voice , and wonder fix'd my view ; When ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 18 - Ye nightingales, ye twisting pines ! Ye swains that haunt the grove ! Ye gentle echoes, breezy winds ! Ye close retreats of love ! With all of nature, all of art, Assist the. dear design...
Pàgina 90 - To what excefles had his dotage run ? But God, to fave the father, took the fon. To all but thee, in fits he feem'd to go, (And 'twas my miniftry to deal the blow) The poor fond parent, humbled in the duft, Now owns in tears the punifhment was juft.
Pàgina 85 - And shake the neighbouring wood to banish sleep. Up rise the guests, obedient to the call: An early banquet deck'd the splendid hall; Rich luscious wine a golden goblet grac'd, Which the kind master forc'd the guests to taste. Then, pleas'd and thankful, from the porch...
Pàgina 57 - And fits in meaiures, fuch as Virgil's Mufe To place thee near him might be fond to chufe. How might he tune th...
Pàgina 78 - Those graves, with bending osier bound, That nameless heave the crumbled ground, Quick to the glancing thought disclose Where toil and poverty repose. The flat smooth stones that bear a name...
Pàgina 89 - ... Detested wretch !" — but scarce his speech began, When the strange partner seem'd no longer man His youthful face grew more serenely sweet ; His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet ; Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair ; Celestial odours...
Pàgina 6 - A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, Above all pain, all anger, and all pride, The rage of power, the blast of public breath, The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
Pàgina 338 - There folid billows of enormous fize, Alps of green ice, in wild diforder rife. And yet but lately have I feen, ev'n here, The winter in a lovely drefs appear.
Pàgina 94 - But urge thy powers, thine utmost voice advance, Make the loud strings against thy fingers dance ; 'Tis love that angels praise and men adore, 'Tis love divine that asks it all and more. Fling back the gates of ever-blazing day, Pour floods of liquid light to gild the way ; And all in glory wrapt...
Pàgina 78 - Arms, angels, epitaphs and bones, These (all the poor remains of state) Adorn the rich, or praise the great ; Who while on earth in fame they live, Are senseless of the fame they give.