The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 20J. Johnson, 1810 - 644 páginas |
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... youth . When Cato thus exprest The sacred counsels of his inmost breast : " Bratus ! with thee , I own the crime is great ; With thee , this impious civil war I hate ; But virtue blindly follows , led by fate . Answer yourselves , ye ...
... youth . When Cato thus exprest The sacred counsels of his inmost breast : " Bratus ! with thee , I own the crime is great ; With thee , this impious civil war I hate ; But virtue blindly follows , led by fate . Answer yourselves , ye ...
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... youth prepare With hardy vigour to repel the war : Crowding they gather on the rampart's height , And with tough staves and spears maintain the fight ; [ throw , Darts , fragments of the rock , and flames they And tear the planky ...
... youth prepare With hardy vigour to repel the war : Crowding they gather on the rampart's height , And with tough staves and spears maintain the fight ; [ throw , Darts , fragments of the rock , and flames they And tear the planky ...
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... youth stands struck with sudden night , [ ply While bursting start the bleeding orbs of sight . At first he took the darkness to be death , And thought himself amidst the shades beneath ; But soon recovering from the stunning sound , He ...
... youth stands struck with sudden night , [ ply While bursting start the bleeding orbs of sight . At first he took the darkness to be death , And thought himself amidst the shades beneath ; But soon recovering from the stunning sound , He ...
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... youth regardless of his might , Fierce in the scorn of life , and hating light , Fearless , and careless of whate'er may come , Resolv'd and self - determin'd to their doom ; Alike disdain the threatning of the war , And all the ...
... youth regardless of his might , Fierce in the scorn of life , and hating light , Fearless , and careless of whate'er may come , Resolv'd and self - determin'd to their doom ; Alike disdain the threatning of the war , And all the ...
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... youth , my aid implor'd , For any less decision of the sword ; The gods , unwilling , should my power confess , And crown thy wishes with a full success . Hadst thou desir'd some single friend to save , Long had my charms withheld him ...
... youth , my aid implor'd , For any less decision of the sword ; The gods , unwilling , should my power confess , And crown thy wishes with a full success . Hadst thou desir'd some single friend to save , Long had my charms withheld him ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneid Amycus Anacreon ancient Argo arms bear beauty behold beneath blood bold bosom breast Cæsar Chalciope charms chief Colchian crown'd cry'd dart death dread earth Euphemus ev'n eyes fair fam'd fame fatal fate fear fierce fire fix'd flame flies flood goddess gods golden grace Greek grief hand haste head heart Heaven heroes honour Idyllium Jason join'd Jove king labours land Latian light lov'd Lucan maid Medea mighty Mopsus Moschus mournful Muses night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pain Peleus Pentheus Pharsalia Phineus Phoebus Phrixus plac'd plain poet Pompey pow'r queen rage rais'd rise Roman Rome round sacred sails says seas shade shore sire skies slain soft song soon soul spoke stood streams swain sweet sword tears thee Theocritus Thessaly thou Thracian thro Tibullus Tiphys toil trembling vanquish'd Venus Virgil waves winds wound wretched youth
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Página 356 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition...
Página 198 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 533 - Kill noxious creatures, where 'tis sin to save ; This only just prerogative we have : But nourish life with vegetable food, And shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.
Página 383 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease.
Página 208 - Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Página 378 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Página 530 - The breathless embryo with a spirit warm'd ; But when the mother's throes begin to come, The creature, pent within the narrow room...
Página 347 - Two cities radiant on the shield appear, The image one of peace, and one of war, Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed...
Página 423 - By pray'rs are bent to pity, and to love; If human miseries can move their mind; If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind; Tell how we may restore, by second birth, Mankind, and people desolated earth.
Página 319 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
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Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from ... Annette Wheeler Cafarelli Visualização de excertos - 1990 |