The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs : Then on a rifing ground the trunk he plac'd ; Which with the fpoils of his dead foe he grac'd . VOL . VII . B The The coat of arms by proud Mezentius ...
... first to heaven perform'd a victor's vow : He bar'd an ancient oak of all her boughs : Then on a rifing ground the trunk he plac'd ; Which with the fpoils of his dead foe he grac'd . VOL . VII . B The The coat of arms by proud Mezentius ...
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... First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd fo fad a fight , then thus began : Unhappy youth ! when fortune gave Of my full wishes , the refus'd the best ! She came ; but brought not thee along , to bless My longing eyes , and ...
... First , melting into tears , the pious man Deplor'd fo fad a fight , then thus began : Unhappy youth ! when fortune gave Of my full wishes , the refus'd the best ! She came ; but brought not thee along , to bless My longing eyes , and ...
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... first we bring , 380 Then crave an inftant audience from the king : His leave obtain'd , our native foil we name ; And tell th ' important caufe for which we came . Attentively he heard us , while we spoke ; Then , with foft accents ...
... first we bring , 380 Then crave an inftant audience from the king : His leave obtain'd , our native foil we name ; And tell th ' important caufe for which we came . Attentively he heard us , while we spoke ; Then , with foft accents ...
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... First in the council - hall to fteer the state ; And ever foremost in a tongue - debate . While our ftrong walls secure us from the foe , Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow : But let the potent orator declaim , And with the brand ...
... First in the council - hall to fteer the state ; And ever foremost in a tongue - debate . While our ftrong walls secure us from the foe , Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow : But let the potent orator declaim , And with the brand ...
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... first they fume the sacred fhrine ; Then in this common fupplication join : O patronefs of arms , unfpotted maid , Propitious hear , and lend thy Latins aid : Break fhort the pirate's lance ; pronounce his fate , And lay the Phrygian ...
... first they fume the sacred fhrine ; Then in this common fupplication join : O patronefs of arms , unfpotted maid , Propitious hear , and lend thy Latins aid : Break fhort the pirate's lance ; pronounce his fate , And lay the Phrygian ...
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Halaman 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Halaman 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Halaman 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Halaman 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Halaman 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Halaman 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Halaman 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Halaman 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Halaman 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Halaman 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.