The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volym 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... shall be . Swift as the word , the fped the boar away , With charge on those devoted fields to prey . No larger bulls th ' Ægyptian paftures feed , And none fo large Sicilian meadows breed : His eye - balls glare with fire , faffus'd ...
... shall be . Swift as the word , the fped the boar away , With charge on those devoted fields to prey . No larger bulls th ' Ægyptian paftures feed , And none fo large Sicilian meadows breed : His eye - balls glare with fire , faffus'd ...
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... Shall fate to happy Oeneus ftill allow One fon , while Theftius ftands depriv'd of two ? Better three loft , than one unpunish'd go . Take then , dear ghosts , ( while yet admitted new In hell you wait my duty ) take your due : A coftly ...
... Shall fate to happy Oeneus ftill allow One fon , while Theftius ftands depriv'd of two ? Better three loft , than one unpunish'd go . Take then , dear ghosts , ( while yet admitted new In hell you wait my duty ) take your due : A coftly ...
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... shall o'ercome . But , having pay'd their injur'd ghosts their due , My son requires my death , and mine shall his pursue , At this for the last time the lifts her hand , Averts her eyes , and half unwilling drops the brand . The brand ...
... shall o'ercome . But , having pay'd their injur'd ghosts their due , My son requires my death , and mine shall his pursue , At this for the last time the lifts her hand , Averts her eyes , and half unwilling drops the brand . The brand ...
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... Shall fate to happy Oeneus still allow One fon , while Thestius stands depriv'd of two ? Better three loft , than one unpunish'd go . Take then , dear ghosts , ( while yet admitted new In hell wait you my duty ) take due : your A coftly ...
... Shall fate to happy Oeneus still allow One fon , while Thestius stands depriv'd of two ? Better three loft , than one unpunish'd go . Take then , dear ghosts , ( while yet admitted new In hell wait you my duty ) take due : your A coftly ...
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... Shall juftly perifh for impiety : You ftand alone exempted ; but obey With speed , and follow where we lead the way : Leave these accurs'd ; and to the mountain's height Afcend ; nor once look backward in your flight . They hate ; and ...
... Shall juftly perifh for impiety : You ftand alone exempted ; but obey With speed , and follow where we lead the way : Leave these accurs'd ; and to the mountain's height Afcend ; nor once look backward in your flight . They hate ; and ...
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The Works of the English Poets, Volym 17–19 John Dryden,Samuel Johnson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1779 |
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Sida 301 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Sida 301 - And always in extreme. Now with a noiseless gentle course It keeps within the middle bed.; . Anon it lifts aloft the head, And bears down all before it with impetuous force : And trunks of trees come rolling down...
Sida 252 - I have already hinted a word or two concerning it ; that is, the maintaining the character of an author, which distinguishes him from all others, and makes him appear that individual poet whom you would interpret.
Sida 301 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Sida 77 - Immortal offspring of my brother Jove ; My brightest nephew, and whom best I love, Whose hands were join'd with mine, to raise the...
Sida 55 - I can fpare, As only decorations of the war : So Mars is arm'd for glory, not for need. 'Tis fomewhat more from Neptune to proceed,.
Sida 297 - Let him alone, with what he made, To toss and turn the world below; At his...
Sida 133 - em twinkling up in air. Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have: But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Sida 162 - O you pow'rs above, How rude I am in all the arts of love! My hand is yet untaught to write to men: This is th...
Sida 305 - His children and his family, And order all things till he come, Sweaty and...