The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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adore Alcinous arms beauteous beauty beneath bless bless'd bliss bloom brave breast breath bright celestial charms COSMELIA Cretheus cried Cupid dark dear death Deity Delia delight despair divine e'er ELIJAH FENTON Enipeus eternal eyes fair falchion fame fate fear Fenton flame flowing tears foes give glorious glory gods grace grief grove happy Heaven honour immortal JOHN POMFRET join'd Jove labour live lute lyre mighty mind misery mortal mourn Muse ne'er Neleus night noble numbers nymph o'er OVID pain pass'd passion Peleus Phaon Phoebus PINDARIC pity plain poison'd possess'd praise pursue rage rapture Reason reign return'd round ruin sacred Sappho shade shine sigh sing skies smiling soft soon sorrow soul Strephon sure swain sweet tears tender thee thou thought throne trembling Venus verse virtue vows warbling waves weeping Whilst wise wondrous wretched youth
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Página 197 - Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.
Página 144 - I know an instance where he did his utmost to conceal his own merit that way ; and if we join to this his natural love of ease, I fancy we must expect little of this sort : at least I...
Página 12 - Near some obliging, modest fair to live : For there's that sweetness in a female mind Which in a man's we cannot hope to find...
Página 144 - As to any Papers left behind him, I dare say they can be but few ; for this reason : He never wrote out of Vanity, or thought much of the Applause of Men. I know an Instance...
Página 13 - Give life an edge so keen, no surly care Would venture to assault my soul, or dare, Near my retreat, to hide one secret snare. But so divine, so noble a repast I'd seldom, and with moderation, taste : For highest cordials all their virtue lose, By a too frequent and too bold a use ; And what would cheer the spirits in distress, Ruins our health, when taken to excess.
Página 254 - Sleep, unprovoked, will softly seal his eyes, And innocence the want of down supplies; Health tempers all his cups, and at his board Reigns the cheap luxury the fields afford : Like the great Trojan, mantled in a cloud...
Página 61 - Who moves within the middle region, shares The least disquiets, and the smallest cares. Let her extraction with true lustre shine ; If something brighter, not too bright for thine : Her education liberal, not great ; Neither inferior nor above her state. Let her have wit ; but let that wit be free From affectation, pride, or pedantry : For the effect of woman's wit is such, Too little is as dangerous as too much.
Página 11 - ... .a pleasant flavour to discourse; by making all our spirits debonair, throws off the lees, the sediment of care. But as the greatest blessing heaven lends may be debauch'd, and serve ignoble ends; so, but too oft, the grape's refreshing juice does many mischievous effects produce.
Página 14 - But by a silent and a peaceful death, Without a sigh, resign my aged breath. And, when committed to the dust, I'd have Few tears, but friendly, dropt into my grave ; Then would my exit so propitious be, All men would wish to live and die like me.
Página 10 - Ovid too, Who all the turns of love's soft passion knew: He that with judgment reads his charming lines, In which strong art with stronger nature joins, Must grant his fancy does the best excel; His thoughts so tender, and express'd so well: With all those moderns, men of steady sense, Esteem'd for learning, and for eloquence.