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... foe , the fea . That noble ardour , more than mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raife her waves above Th ' heroick Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , 103 ...
... foe , the fea . That noble ardour , more than mortal fire , The conquer'd ocean could not make expire ; Nor angry Thetis raife her waves above Th ' heroick Prince's courage or his love : ' Twas indignation , and not fear he felt , 103 ...
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... foes profest to all the world befide ; This peft of mankind gives our hero fame , And thro ' th ' obliged world dilates his name . The Prophet once to cruel Agag faid , 38 5 [ 10 As thy fierce fword has mothers childless made , So fhall ...
... foes profest to all the world befide ; This peft of mankind gives our hero fame , And thro ' th ' obliged world dilates his name . The Prophet once to cruel Agag faid , 38 5 [ 10 As thy fierce fword has mothers childless made , So fhall ...
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... envy , or thine own despair ? Not the juft Pallas in thy breast did move So blind a rage , with such a diff'rent fate ; He honour won where thou hast purchas'd hate . 45 48 5 She gave affiftance to his Trojan foe ? Thou , 76 MISCELLANIES .
... envy , or thine own despair ? Not the juft Pallas in thy breast did move So blind a rage , with such a diff'rent fate ; He honour won where thou hast purchas'd hate . 45 48 5 She gave affiftance to his Trojan foe ? Thou , 76 MISCELLANIES .
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... foe ? Thou , that without a rival thou may'st love , Doft to the beauty of this Lady owe , While after her the gazing ... foes , and won the doubtful field ? So fhall thy rebel wit become her prize Should thy Iambicks fwell into a book ...
... foe ? Thou , that without a rival thou may'st love , Doft to the beauty of this Lady owe , While after her the gazing ... foes , and won the doubtful field ? So fhall thy rebel wit become her prize Should thy Iambicks fwell into a book ...
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... foe profefs'd ! why doft thou falfely feign Thyfelf a Sidney ? from which noble strain He sprung * , that could fo far exalt the name Of Love , and warm our nation with his flame ; That all we can of love or high defire Seems but the ...
... foe profefs'd ! why doft thou falfely feign Thyfelf a Sidney ? from which noble strain He sprung * , that could fo far exalt the name Of Love , and warm our nation with his flame ; That all we can of love or high defire Seems but the ...
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Page 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Page 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Page xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Page xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Page 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Page 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Page 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Page xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Page 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove