The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volum 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Pàgina 11
... smiles . Before , old Neptune smooths the liquid way ; Obsequious Tritons on the surface play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance In oozy beds profound the billows sleep ...
... smiles . Before , old Neptune smooths the liquid way ; Obsequious Tritons on the surface play ; And sportful dolphins , with a nimble glance , To the bright Sun their glittering scales advance In oozy beds profound the billows sleep ...
Pàgina 13
... smiling meadows , silver floods , And plains with lowing herds enrich'd around , The hills with flocks , the flocks with fleeces crown'd . All these with native wealth thy power maintain , And bloom with blessings of thy easy reign ...
... smiling meadows , silver floods , And plains with lowing herds enrich'd around , The hills with flocks , the flocks with fleeces crown'd . All these with native wealth thy power maintain , And bloom with blessings of thy easy reign ...
Pàgina 21
... smiling , scatter fragrant showers of roses in thy Whilst thou , array'd in thy unrivall'd pride , [ way , On golden wheels , all gold thyself , shalt ride : Thy spreading wings shall richest diamonds wear , And gems shall sparkle in ...
... smiling , scatter fragrant showers of roses in thy Whilst thou , array'd in thy unrivall'd pride , [ way , On golden wheels , all gold thyself , shalt ride : Thy spreading wings shall richest diamonds wear , And gems shall sparkle in ...
Pàgina 22
... smiles and numerous conquests known ; Where , ' midst the brightest nymphs , she bore the From all - from all but her Asteria's eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ...
... smiles and numerous conquests known ; Where , ' midst the brightest nymphs , she bore the From all - from all but her Asteria's eyes . [ prize Behold the maid , who then secure repell'd The shafts of Love , by fainting sickness quell'd ...
Pàgina 24
... smiling , said , I'll see How well this fair - one's art can copy ine . " So to her favourite Titian once she came , To guide his pencil , and attest his fame , With transport granting all that she could give , And bid his works to ...
... smiling , said , I'll see How well this fair - one's art can copy ine . " So to her favourite Titian once she came , To guide his pencil , and attest his fame , With transport granting all that she could give , And bid his works to ...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volum 10 Alexander Chalmers Visualització completa - 1810 |
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volum 10 Alexander Chalmers Visualització completa - 1810 |
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volum 10 Alexander Chalmers Visualització completa - 1810 |
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Apollo arms beauteous beauty Behold Belgia bless blest breast bright Cæsar charms Columbo confest crown'd Cupid darts dear death delight e'er Earth Epicurus ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flow Ganymede goddess gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hear heart Heaven hero honour Jove kind king labour light live lord lov'd Lucretius lyre maid MATTHEW PRIOR mighty mind mourn Muse Namur Nature's ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Ovid pain passion peace Peneus Phoebus Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet Pothinus praise pride queen rage rais'd reign rise sacred shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul swain sweet tears tell thee things thou thought toil twas Venus verse vex'd Virg virtue weep Whilst winds wise wretched wyll youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 262 - And terror on my aching s'ight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Pàgina 42 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pàgina 509 - From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in vain.
Pàgina 430 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Pàgina 213 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Pàgina 430 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of VOL
Pàgina 262 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Pàgina 430 - Its reception is thus recorded in the notes to the "Dunciad":— "This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, etc.
Pàgina 43 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise; See the snakes that they rear. How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Pàgina 319 - A new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...