The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volum 571790 |
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Pàgina 42
... heaven defcends , And on the artift's moving bow attends ? 40 Why then , in making verfes , fhould I ftrain For wit , and of Apollo beg a vein ? Who ftudy Horace and the Stagyrite ? Why cramp my dulnefs , and in torment write ? Let me ...
... heaven defcends , And on the artift's moving bow attends ? 40 Why then , in making verfes , fhould I ftrain For wit , and of Apollo beg a vein ? Who ftudy Horace and the Stagyrite ? Why cramp my dulnefs , and in torment write ? Let me ...
Pàgina 68
... heaven allow , While we behold yon wide - spread azure cope , With burning ftars thick - lufter'd o'er , Than to enjoy , and to deferve , a store 100 104 108 112 11.6 120 Of Of treafur'd fame , by blameless deeds acquir'd , By -68 A ...
... heaven allow , While we behold yon wide - spread azure cope , With burning ftars thick - lufter'd o'er , Than to enjoy , and to deferve , a store 100 104 108 112 11.6 120 Of Of treafur'd fame , by blameless deeds acquir'd , By -68 A ...
Pàgina 71
... heaven fuch favour give , Nor to the noble - born , nor to the strong , Nor to the gay , the beautiful , or young , II . Whom then , fecure of happiness , Does every eye beholding blefs , And every tongue commend ? Him , Pulteney , who ...
... heaven fuch favour give , Nor to the noble - born , nor to the strong , Nor to the gay , the beautiful , or young , II . Whom then , fecure of happiness , Does every eye beholding blefs , And every tongue commend ? Him , Pulteney , who ...
Pàgina 82
... heaven , or his hell , The madman's sport , the wife man's pain . TO MR . ADDISON ON CATO . HE mind to virtue is by verfe fubdu'd , TH And the true poet is a public good : This Britain feels , while , by your lines infpir'd , Her free ...
... heaven , or his hell , The madman's sport , the wife man's pain . TO MR . ADDISON ON CATO . HE mind to virtue is by verfe fubdu'd , TH And the true poet is a public good : This Britain feels , while , by your lines infpir'd , Her free ...
Pàgina 87
... heaven , with jealous eyes , Beholds the blooming virgin from the fkies , 52 His broken vows , and his clandestine loves : Jove ftill continues frail : and all in vain Does Thule in obfcureft fhades remain , While Maja's fon , the ...
... heaven , with jealous eyes , Beholds the blooming virgin from the fkies , 52 His broken vows , and his clandestine loves : Jove ftill continues frail : and all in vain Does Thule in obfcureft fhades remain , While Maja's fon , the ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Agrigentum AMBROSE PHILIPS ANTIS TROPHE boaſt breaſt breath caft Camarina courſe defcended defire delight Diagoras divine E PODE eaſe Epode erft Ergoteles facred fair fam'd fame fate feaſt fecret fhade fhall fhine fing fire firft fkies flowers fmiles folemn fome fong foul ftill ftrain ftreams ftring fuch fung fweet glory goddeſs gods grace gueſt happineſs hath heart heaven Hiero Himera himſelf honour illuftrious immortal infcribed iſland Jove LVII lyre Meaſures Meaſures 16 mighty mind mortal moſt Mufe Muſe night numbers o'er occafion Ocyp Olympick Olympick Games Orchomenus pain Pelops Pfaumis Phineus Pifa's Pindar plain pleaſe pleaſures Poet praiſe prefent purſues raiſe rife ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhould ſkies ſkill ſmiles ſong ſpeak ſpeed ſpread ſtate ſtill ſtrong STROPHE ſweet thee thefe Theron theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand Tlepolemus toil tranflated verfe verſe victory virtue whofe whoſe wiſdom Xenocrates youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 130 - The figur'd games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race. The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds seem starting from the stone ; The champions in distorted postures threat ; 220 And all appear'd irregularly great. Here happy Horace tun'd th...
Pàgina 324 - Not wrapt in smoky London's sulphurous clouds, And not far distant stands my rural cot: Neither obnoxious to intruding crowds, Nor for the good and friendly too remote. And when too much repose brings on the spleen, Or the gay city's idle pleasures cloy: Swift as my changing wish I change the scene, And now the country, now the town enjoy.
Pàgina 158 - Muse, thy sounding bow; Say through what paths of liquid air . Our arrows shall we throw? On Agrigentum fix thine eye, Thither let all thy quiver fly. And thou, O Agrigentum, hear, While with religious dread, And taught the laws of...
Pàgina 274 - And as he lift th" imperial puppet play'd, By fecret fprings and wheels right wifely made, That he the fubtle wires mote not * avize, But deem in footh that all he did or faid, From his own motion and free grace did rife, And that he juftly hight immortal, great, and wife. XXXI. And eke to each of that fame gilded train, That meekly round that lordly throne did...
Pàgina 215 - ... any more than the fields and trees are every year equally fruitful ; that the gods had not given mortals any certain tokens, by which they might foreknow when the rich years of virtue...
Pàgina 310 - And as they mount, enlighten every age With the bright influence of fair Virtue's rays ; Which from the awful heights of Grandeur brighter blaze.
Pàgina 311 - And wherefore fhould they take or care or thought, Whom Nature prompts, and Fortune -calls to play ? " Lords of the earth, be happy as ye may ! So learn'd, fo taught the leaders of mankind ; Th' unreafoning vulgar willingly obey, And leaving toil and poverty behind, Ran forth by different ways the blifsful boon to find. LXIII. Nor tedious was the fearch ; for every where, As nigh great CUSTOM'S royal tow'rs the KNIGHT Pafs'd through th...
Pàgina 322 - Let me ne more myself deceive ; Ne more regret the toys I leave : The world I quit, the proud, the vain, Corruption's and Ambition's train ; But not the good, perdie, nor fair...
Pàgina 186 - Crete; bnt being driven from thence by the fury of a prevailing faction, he retired to Himera, a town of Sicily, where he was honourably received, and admitted to the freedom of the city ; after which he had the happiness to obtain, what the Greeks esteemed the highest pitch of glory, the Olympic crown.
Pàgina 287 - I labour to diffuse the' important good, Till this great truth by all be understood, ' That all the pious duties which we owe Our parents, friends, our .country, and our God; The seeds of every virtue here below, From discipline alone, and early culture, grow/ * Nurture, education*.