The Works of the English Poets: Denham and SprattH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Halaman 13
... no thing , no place is strange , While his fair bofom is the world's exchange . O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though * Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , DENHA M'S POEM S. 13.
... no thing , no place is strange , While his fair bofom is the world's exchange . O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though * Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , DENHA M'S POEM S. 13.
Halaman 18
... Fair liberty purfued , * and meant a prey To lawless power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . When in that remedy all hope was plac'd , Which was , or should have been at leaft , the last . Here was that charter feal'd , wherein the ...
... Fair liberty purfued , * and meant a prey To lawless power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . When in that remedy all hope was plac'd , Which was , or should have been at leaft , the last . Here was that charter feal'd , wherein the ...
Halaman 31
... fair Caffandra won , Arriv'd but lately in her father's aid ; Unhappy , whom the threats could not diffuade Of his prophetic spouse ; Whom when I faw , yet daring to maintain The fight , I faid , Brave spirits ( but in vain ) Are you ...
... fair Caffandra won , Arriv'd but lately in her father's aid ; Unhappy , whom the threats could not diffuade Of his prophetic spouse ; Whom when I faw , yet daring to maintain The fight , I faid , Brave spirits ( but in vain ) Are you ...
Halaman 33
... fair path they lead us , let us tread . First change your arms , and their distinctions bear ; The fame , in foes , deceit and virtue are . Then of his arms Androgeus he divests , His fword , his fhield he takes , and plumed crefts ...
... fair path they lead us , let us tread . First change your arms , and their distinctions bear ; The fame , in foes , deceit and virtue are . Then of his arms Androgeus he divests , His fword , his fhield he takes , and plumed crefts ...
Halaman 54
... fair Helen to enjoy , To quench his own , fet fire on Troy ? Such is the world's prepofterous fate , Amongst all creatures , mortal hate Love ( though immortal ) doth create . But love may beafts excufe , for they Their actions not by ...
... fair Helen to enjoy , To quench his own , fet fire on Troy ? Such is the world's prepofterous fate , Amongst all creatures , mortal hate Love ( though immortal ) doth create . But love may beafts excufe , for they Their actions not by ...
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Halaman 57 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Halaman 21 - First to a Torrent, then a Deluge swells: Stronger, and fiercer by restraint he roars, And knows no bound, but makes his power his shores.
Halaman 15 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Halaman 14 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a...
Halaman 18 - All instruments, all arts of ruin met; He calls to mind his strength, and then his speed, His winged heels, and then his armed head; With these t' avoid, with that his fate to meet; But fear prevails and bids him trust his feet.
Halaman 293 - Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. The time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine? The present moment's all my lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I by miracle can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heaven allows.
Halaman 314 - Likes me abundantly ; but you take care Upon this point, not to be too severe. Perhaps my muse were fitter for this part, For I profess I can be very smart On wit, which I abhor with all my heart.
Halaman 335 - If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit ? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern Muse ? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit...
Halaman 53 - How unconcern'd in things to come ! if here uneasy, finds at Rome, at Paris, or Madrid, his home. Secure from low and private ends, his life, his zeal, his wealth attends his prince, his country, and his friends.
Halaman 58 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear} He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.