The Works of the English Poets: WallerH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... nobler laws ; And by that justice hast remov'd the cause Of those rude tempefts , which , for rapine fent , ' Too oft , alas ! involv'd the innocent . Now fhall the Ocean , as thy Thames , be free From both those fates , of storms and ...
... nobler laws ; And by that justice hast remov'd the cause Of those rude tempefts , which , for rapine fent , ' Too oft , alas ! involv'd the innocent . Now fhall the Ocean , as thy Thames , be free From both those fates , of storms and ...
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... nobler than his ink ! RA TO VAN DYCK . ARE Artifan , whofe pencil moves Not our delights alone , but loves ! From thy fhop of beauty we Slaves return , that enter'd free . The heedlefs lover does not know Whofe eyes they are that wound ...
... nobler than his ink ! RA TO VAN DYCK . ARE Artifan , whofe pencil moves Not our delights alone , but loves ! From thy fhop of beauty we Slaves return , that enter'd free . The heedlefs lover does not know Whofe eyes they are that wound ...
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... nobler part as far exceeding these , None but immortal gifts her mind should please . The fhining jewels Greece and Troy bestow'd On * Sparta's Queen , her lovely neck did load , And fnowy wrifts : but when the town was burn'd , Thofe ...
... nobler part as far exceeding these , None but immortal gifts her mind should please . The fhining jewels Greece and Troy bestow'd On * Sparta's Queen , her lovely neck did load , And fnowy wrifts : but when the town was burn'd , Thofe ...
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... nobler part invades the sky . Then grieve no more , that one so heavenly shap'd The crooked hand of trembling age escap'd . Rather , since we beheld her not decay , But that the vanish'd so entire away , Her wondrous beauty , and her ...
... nobler part invades the sky . Then grieve no more , that one so heavenly shap'd The crooked hand of trembling age escap'd . Rather , since we beheld her not decay , But that the vanish'd so entire away , Her wondrous beauty , and her ...
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... nobler part ) Calls up his courage ; then begins to roar , And charge his foes , who thought him mad before . L FOR DRINKING OF HEALTHS . ET brutes and vegetals , that cannot think , So far as drought and nature urges , drink : A more ...
... nobler part ) Calls up his courage ; then begins to roar , And charge his foes , who thought him mad before . L FOR DRINKING OF HEALTHS . ET brutes and vegetals , that cannot think , So far as drought and nature urges , drink : A more ...
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againſt Amoret beauty beſt bleft blood bold bounty brave breaſt Britiſh CANTO Chloris command courage dark oracles Engliſh eyes facred fafe fair falutes fame fate fear feem fhall fhew fhining fhips fight fince fing firft firſt flame foes fome fong foul ftill fuch give glory grace Heaven himſelf increaſe inftruct inſpire iſland itſelf Jove juſt King Lady laft laſt lefs light live loft Lucretius marble live mind mortal Mufe muft Muſe muſt noble nobler Numbers Nymph o'er paffion peace Phaëton Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure Poems praiſe prefent Prince rage raiſe reſt rife riſe royal ſea ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſome ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtore ſuch ſweet tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand uſe Verfe verſe vex'd virtue WALLER whofe whoſe wind youth
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Página 232 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Página 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Página 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Página 151 - For future shade, young trees upon the banks Of the new stream appear in even ranks : The voice of Orpheus, or Amphion's hand, In better order could not make them stand...
Página 136 - Of her own growth hath all that nature craves, And all that's rare, as tribute from the waves. As ./Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to...
Página 99 - Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Página 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Página 9 - There was no distinction of parts, no regular stops, nothing for the ear to rest upon ; but as soon as the copy began, down it went like a larum, incessantly ; and the reader was sure to be out of breath before he got to the end of it : so that really verse, in those days, was but downright prose tagged with rhymes.
Página 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.