The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volym 16Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... falling rain : The bottom was a moift and marshy ground , Whofe edges were with bending ofiers crown'd ; The knotty bulrush next in order stood , And all within of reeds a trembling wood . From From hence the boar was rous'd , and ...
... falling rain : The bottom was a moift and marshy ground , Whofe edges were with bending ofiers crown'd ; The knotty bulrush next in order stood , And all within of reeds a trembling wood . From From hence the boar was rous'd , and ...
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... falls headlong on the plain . Neftor had fail'd the fall of Troy to fee , But , leaning on his lance , he vaulted on a tree ; Then , gathering up his feet , look'd down with fear , And thought his monstrous foe was still too near ...
... falls headlong on the plain . Neftor had fail'd the fall of Troy to fee , But , leaning on his lance , he vaulted on a tree ; Then , gathering up his feet , look'd down with fear , And thought his monstrous foe was still too near ...
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... falls ; his bowels from the wound Rush out , and clotted blood distains the ground . Pirithous , no small portion of the war , Prefs'd on , and shook his lance : to whom from far , Thus Thefeus cry'd : O stay , my better part , My more ...
... falls ; his bowels from the wound Rush out , and clotted blood distains the ground . Pirithous , no small portion of the war , Prefs'd on , and shook his lance : to whom from far , Thus Thefeus cry'd : O stay , my better part , My more ...
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... falls , and in much foam his foul expires . This act with shouts heaven - high the friendly band Applaud , and ftrain in theirs the victor's hand . Then all approach the flain with vast surprize , Admire on what a breadth of earth he ...
... falls , and in much foam his foul expires . This act with shouts heaven - high the friendly band Applaud , and ftrain in theirs the victor's hand . Then all approach the flain with vast surprize , Admire on what a breadth of earth he ...
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... , and a crime commit ; But blood for blood , and death for death , is fit : Great crimes must be with greater crimnes repaid , And fecond funerals on the former laid . Let Let the whole houshold in one ruin fall , may FROM OVID . 11.
... , and a crime commit ; But blood for blood , and death for death , is fit : Great crimes must be with greater crimnes repaid , And fecond funerals on the former laid . Let Let the whole houshold in one ruin fall , may FROM OVID . 11.
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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...