The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4 |
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... breathing death . What though the gripe severe Of brazen - fisted Time , and slow disease Creeping through every vein , and nerve unstrung , Afflict my shatter'd frame , undaunted still , Fix'd as a mountain ash , that braves the bolts ...
... breathing death . What though the gripe severe Of brazen - fisted Time , and slow disease Creeping through every vein , and nerve unstrung , Afflict my shatter'd frame , undaunted still , Fix'd as a mountain ash , that braves the bolts ...
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... breath Inhale the grateful steam , quick pleasures sting Their tingling nerves , while they their thanks repay , And in triumphant melody confess The titillating joy . Thus on the air Depend the hunter's hopes . When ruddy streaks At ...
... breath Inhale the grateful steam , quick pleasures sting Their tingling nerves , while they their thanks repay , And in triumphant melody confess The titillating joy . Thus on the air Depend the hunter's hopes . When ruddy streaks At ...
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... breath , and there reluctant dies . So when the furious Bacchanals assail'd Threician Orpheus , poor ill - fated bard ! Loud was the cry , hills , woods , and Hebrus ' banks , Return'd their clamorous rage ; distress'd he flies ...
... breath , and there reluctant dies . So when the furious Bacchanals assail'd Threician Orpheus , poor ill - fated bard ! Loud was the cry , hills , woods , and Hebrus ' banks , Return'd their clamorous rage ; distress'd he flies ...
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... breathing martial airs , And bold defiance . High upon his throne , Borne on the back of his proud elephant , Sits the great chief of Tamur's glorious race : Sublime he sits , amid the radiant blaze Of gems and gold . Omrahs about him ...
... breathing martial airs , And bold defiance . High upon his throne , Borne on the back of his proud elephant , Sits the great chief of Tamur's glorious race : Sublime he sits , amid the radiant blaze Of gems and gold . Omrahs about him ...
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... his half - opening jaws The clammy venom , and infectious froth , Distilling fall ; and from his lungs inflamed , Malignant vapours taint the ambient air , Breathing perdition : his dim eyes are glazed ; He THE CHASE . 63.
... his half - opening jaws The clammy venom , and infectious froth , Distilling fall ; and from his lungs inflamed , Malignant vapours taint the ambient air , Breathing perdition : his dim eyes are glazed ; He THE CHASE . 63.
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Page 14 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 17 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen : He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Page 12 - In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 9 - Goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows. Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.
Page 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 10 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 98 - See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings : Short is his joy ; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah ! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold 1 Nor yet, when moist Arcturus clouds the sky, The woods and fields their pleasing toils deny.
Page 36 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day...
Page 33 - And hell's grim tyrant feel the eternal wound. As the good shepherd tends his fleecy care,' Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air, Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs, By day o'ersees them, and by night protects; The tender lambs he raises in his arms, Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms; Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage, The promised father of the future age.