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... thee , but in vain , for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far , Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war , O curst essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody ...
... thee , but in vain , for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far , Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war , O curst essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody ...
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... thee , ( Which then more Heav'n than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the poesy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Then the sun pass through't twice a year , The sun , which is esteem'd the god of wit . COWLEY . The difficulties ...
... thee , ( Which then more Heav'n than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the poesy there , For it wanteth one as yet , Then the sun pass through't twice a year , The sun , which is esteem'd the god of wit . COWLEY . The difficulties ...
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... thee doth wear , A globe , yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . On reading the following lines , the reader may per- haps cry out ...
... thee doth wear , A globe , yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . On reading the following lines , the reader may per- haps cry out ...
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... thee gentle , fair , and gay , And trusts the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon , and read by the fire : Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , A new ...
... thee gentle , fair , and gay , And trusts the faithless April of thy May . COWLEY . Upon a paper written with the juice of lemon , and read by the fire : Nothing yet in thee is seen , But when a genial heat warms thee within , A new ...
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... thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado shot into a ...
... thee , That thou should'st come to live it o'er again in me ? A Lover's heart , a hand grenado : Woe to her stubborn heart , if once mine come Into the self - same room ; " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado shot into a ...
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Page 312 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Page 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Page 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Page 117 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Page 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.