Fables ancient and modern, tr. into verse: with original poems, Volym 21771 |
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... race , And prefcience only held the fecond place . If he could make fuch agents wholly free , I not difpute ; the point's too high for me ; For heaven's unfathom'd power what man can found , Or put to his omnipotence a bound ? VOL . II ...
... race , And prefcience only held the fecond place . If he could make fuch agents wholly free , I not difpute ; the point's too high for me ; For heaven's unfathom'd power what man can found , Or put to his omnipotence a bound ? VOL . II ...
Sida 35
... race had run , And fummon'd him to due repast at noon , But love could feel no hunger but his own . While lift'ning to the murm'ring leaves he stood , More than a mile immers'd within the wood , At once the wind was laid ; the whisp ...
... race had run , And fummon'd him to due repast at noon , But love could feel no hunger but his own . While lift'ning to the murm'ring leaves he stood , More than a mile immers'd within the wood , At once the wind was laid ; the whisp ...
Sida 82
... race : Where we with green adorn our fairy bow'rs , And ev❜n this grove unseen before , is ours . Know farther ; ev'ry lady cloath'd in white , And , crown'd with oak and laurel ev'ry knight , Are fervants to the leaf , by liveries ...
... race : Where we with green adorn our fairy bow'rs , And ev❜n this grove unseen before , is ours . Know farther ; ev'ry lady cloath'd in white , And , crown'd with oak and laurel ev'ry knight , Are fervants to the leaf , by liveries ...
Sida 106
... race half men , half beaft , Invited , came to grace the nuptial feast : In a cool cave's recefs , the treat was made , Whofe entrance , trees with spreading boughs o'erface . They fat ; and fummon'd by the bridegroom , cant To mix with ...
... race half men , half beaft , Invited , came to grace the nuptial feast : In a cool cave's recefs , the treat was made , Whofe entrance , trees with spreading boughs o'erface . They fat ; and fummon'd by the bridegroom , cant To mix with ...
Sida 111
... race renown'd , Now limping ran , and tardy with his wound . Pholus and Melaneus from fight withdrew , And Abas maim'd , who boars encountring flew : And augur Aftylos , whofe art in vain , From fight diffuaded the four footed train ...
... race renown'd , Now limping ran , and tardy with his wound . Pholus and Melaneus from fight withdrew , And Abas maim'd , who boars encountring flew : And augur Aftylos , whofe art in vain , From fight diffuaded the four footed train ...
Vanliga ord och fraser
Achilles againſt Ajax ANDREW FOULIS arms becauſe beſt betwixt blood breaſt Caeneus caft call'd caſt cauſe Centaur Ceyx chanticleer cloſe Corythus cou'd crown'd cry'd Cymon Daedalion dame death defcended defire deſpair dream durft Eurytus ev'n ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fear feas feaſt feek feem'd feen feiz'd fent fhall fide fight fince fire firſt flain fleep fome foon forc'd fought foul freſh ftill fuch fword gueſt hand heav'n himſelf Hippodame houſe huſband join'd juſt laft laſt lefs loft look'd lov'd maid mind mix'd moſt muſt night pleaſe pleaſure pow'r prefs'd prey Priam purfu'd purſue rais'd receiv'd refolv'd reft reſt Reynard rifing ſaid ſcarce ſeen ſhades ſhall ſhe ſhield ſhip ſhore ſhould ſide ſkies ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtill ſtood ſtrange ſtrength ſweet thee thefe theſe thoſe thou try'd turn'd Twas waves whoſe wife winds wou'd wound
Populära avsnitt
Sida 65 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Sida 153 - Smear'd over with an Oil of wond'rous Might, That adds new Pinions to their airy Flight But this by fure Experiment we know, That living Creatures from Corruption grow: Hide in a hollow Pit a flaughter'd Steer, Bees from his putrid Bowels will appear ; Who like their Parents haunt the Fields, and bring Their Hony-Harveft home, and hope another Spring.
Sida 61 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Sida 60 - Joys inspire. The Song began from Jove ; Who left his blissful Seats above, (Such is the Pow'r of mighty Love.) A Dragon's fiery Form bely'd the God : Sublime on Radiant Spires He rode, When He to fair Olympia...
Sida 167 - Her limbs were form'd with such harmonious grace : So faultless was the frame, as if the whole Had been an emanation of the soul...
Sida 34 - He cheer'd the dogs to follow her who fled, And vow'd revenge on her devoted head. As Theodore was born of noble kind, The brutal...
Sida 3 - And two Ghosts join their Packs to hunt her o'er the Plain. This dreadful Image so possess'd her Mind, That desp'rate any Succour else to find, She ceas'd all farther hope; and now began To make reflection on th...
Sida 62 - And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed : On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.