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... rise of the romantic school . It would be wrong to say that Dryden alone made clearness the distinguishing virtue frequently , to be sure , at the expense of higher qualities of all English poetry in the eighteenth century ; but ...
... rise of the romantic school . It would be wrong to say that Dryden alone made clearness the distinguishing virtue frequently , to be sure , at the expense of higher qualities of all English poetry in the eighteenth century ; but ...
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... rise against the sun , Made him but greater seem , not greater grow . VII No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poison'd , soon as born , With the too early thoughts of ...
... rise against the sun , Made him but greater seem , not greater grow . VII No borrow'd bays his temples did adorn , But to our crown he did fresh jewels bring ; Nor was his virtue poison'd , soon as born , With the too early thoughts of ...
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... rise , Lay down again , and clos'd his weary eyes . " T was MONK whom Providence design'd to loose 151 Those real bonds false freedom did impose . The blessed saints that watch'd this turning scene , Did from their stars with joyful ...
... rise , Lay down again , and clos'd his weary eyes . " T was MONK whom Providence design'd to loose 151 Those real bonds false freedom did impose . The blessed saints that watch'd this turning scene , Did from their stars with joyful ...
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... rising hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was drown'd , It left ... rise . Had greater haste these sacred rights pre- par'd , Some guilty months had in your triumphs shar'd ; But this ...
... rising hill With various notes of joy the ark did fill : Yet when that flood in its own depths was drown'd , It left ... rise . Had greater haste these sacred rights pre- par'd , Some guilty months had in your triumphs shar'd ; But this ...
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... rise , It would in richer showers descend again . XIV At length resolv'd t ' assert the watʼry ball , He in himself did whole armadoes bring : Him aged seamen might their master call , And choose for general , were he not their king ...
... rise , It would in richer showers descend again . XIV At length resolv'd t ' assert the watʼry ball , He in himself did whole armadoes bring : Him aged seamen might their master call , And choose for general , were he not their king ...
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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.