The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 121790 |
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... Nature wanting in her own ef- fects to make good his affertion : for fo in phyfic things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd against melan- choly , four against four , falt to remove falt humors . Hence philofophers and other ...
... Nature wanting in her own ef- fects to make good his affertion : for fo in phyfic things of melancholic hue and quality are us'd against melan- choly , four against four , falt to remove falt humors . Hence philofophers and other ...
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... nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself , My race of glory run , and race of shame , And I fhall fhortly be with them that rest . 595 MAN . Believe not these fuggeftions , which proceed From anguish of the mind and ...
... nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself , My race of glory run , and race of shame , And I fhall fhortly be with them that rest . 595 MAN . Believe not these fuggeftions , which proceed From anguish of the mind and ...
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... life Thy country fought of thee , it fought unjustly , Against the law of nature , law of nations , No more thy country , but an impious crew 880 885 890 Of men confpiring to uphold their ftate By worse than 4 Of 36 POEM S. MILTON'S.
... life Thy country fought of thee , it fought unjustly , Against the law of nature , law of nations , No more thy country , but an impious crew 880 885 890 Of men confpiring to uphold their ftate By worse than 4 Of 36 POEM S. MILTON'S.
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... I run , or which way fly The fight of this fo horrid fpectacle , Which erft my eyes beheld , and yet behold ? For dire imagination ftill purfues me , 1540 But But providence or inftinct of nature seems , Or reason 58 POEM S. MILTON'S.
... I run , or which way fly The fight of this fo horrid fpectacle , Which erft my eyes beheld , and yet behold ? For dire imagination ftill purfues me , 1540 But But providence or inftinct of nature seems , Or reason 58 POEM S. MILTON'S.
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English poets. But providence or inftinct of nature seems , Or reason though difturb'd , and scarce confulted , To ' have guided me aright , I know not how , To thee first , reverend Manoah , and to these My countrymen , whom here I knew ...
English poets. But providence or inftinct of nature seems , Or reason though difturb'd , and scarce confulted , To ' have guided me aright , I know not how , To thee first , reverend Manoah , and to these My countrymen , whom here I knew ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 163 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 102 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Página 106 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Página 181 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 160 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Página 167 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May ; Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate...
Página 10 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 106 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Página 159 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 308 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience; inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...