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... once adorned the work of Ogleby , a pre- vious translator whom Dryden heartily despised , but the plates were touched up for the occasion , and each was decorated with the arms of a subscriber to the book . In Dryden's correspondence ...
... once adorned the work of Ogleby , a pre- vious translator whom Dryden heartily despised , but the plates were touched up for the occasion , and each was decorated with the arms of a subscriber to the book . In Dryden's correspondence ...
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... once to be What in the body natural we see . Man's architect distinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain , Thro ' viewless conduits spirits to dispense , The springs of motion from the seat of sense . " T was ...
... once to be What in the body natural we see . Man's architect distinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain , Thro ' viewless conduits spirits to dispense , The springs of motion from the seat of sense . " T was ...
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... once they find their jealousies were vain , With double heat renew their fires again . ' T was this produc'd the joy that hurried o'er Such swarms of English to the neighb'ring shore , To fetch that prize , by which Batavia made So rich ...
... once they find their jealousies were vain , With double heat renew their fires again . ' T was this produc'd the joy that hurried o'er Such swarms of English to the neighb'ring shore , To fetch that prize , by which Batavia made So rich ...
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... once a beauty and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge Poesy was queen , And still she might , had wanton wits not been ; Who , like ill guardians , liv'd themselves at large , And , not content with that , debauch'd their charge . Like ...
... once a beauty and a fortune too . Of moral knowledge Poesy was queen , And still she might , had wanton wits not been ; Who , like ill guardians , liv'd themselves at large , And , not content with that , debauch'd their charge . Like ...
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... once thought but pools , of blood ( Whether life's fuel , or the body's food ) 30 From dark oblivion Harvey's name shall save ; While Ent keeps all the honor that he gave . Nor are you , learned friend , the least re- nown'd ; Whose ...
... once thought but pools , of blood ( Whether life's fuel , or the body's food ) 30 From dark oblivion Harvey's name shall save ; While Ent keeps all the honor that he gave . Nor are you , learned friend , the least re- nown'd ; Whose ...
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Page 253 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 175 - O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more? It might (what nature never gives the young) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue. But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
Page 111 - Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.
Page 403 - Chase from our minds th' infernal foe, And peace, the fruit of love, bestow; And, lest our feet should step astray, Protect and guide us in the way. Make us eternal truths receive, And practise all that we believe: Give us Thyself, that we may see The Father, and the Son, by Thee.
Page 253 - But Oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
Page 134 - Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase...
Page 90 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both, as he sees occasion : and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases.
Page 252 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. 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 174 - Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mold with mine.
Page 111 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, 15o A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.