Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 3John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 páginas |
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... secret , as my chosen friend . Suppose ( which yet I grant not ) thy desire A moment elder than my rival fire ; Can chance of seeing first thy title prove ? And know'st thou not , no law is made for love ; Law is to things , which to ...
... secret , as my chosen friend . Suppose ( which yet I grant not ) thy desire A moment elder than my rival fire ; Can chance of seeing first thy title prove ? And know'st thou not , no law is made for love ; Law is to things , which to ...
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... secret Palamon was laid . Full little thought of him the gentle knight , Who , flying death , had there conceal'd his flight , In brakes and brambles hid , and shunning mortal sight : And less he knew him for his hated foe , D3 BOOK II ...
... secret Palamon was laid . Full little thought of him the gentle knight , Who , flying death , had there conceal'd his flight , In brakes and brambles hid , and shunning mortal sight : And less he knew him for his hated foe , D3 BOOK II ...
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... secret thoughts explain'd : " If wealth , or honour , or a royal race , Or each , or all , may win a lady's grace , Then either of you knights may well deserve A princess born ; and such is she you serve : For Emily is sister to the ...
... secret thoughts explain'd : " If wealth , or honour , or a royal race , Or each , or all , may win a lady's grace , Then either of you knights may well deserve A princess born ; and such is she you serve : For Emily is sister to the ...
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... secret felon wrought , And Treason labouring in the traitor's thought : And midwife Time the ripen'd plot to murder brought . There the red Anger dar'd the pallid Fear ; Next stood Hypocrisy , with holy leer , Soft smiling , and ...
... secret felon wrought , And Treason labouring in the traitor's thought : And midwife Time the ripen'd plot to murder brought . There the red Anger dar'd the pallid Fear ; Next stood Hypocrisy , with holy leer , Soft smiling , and ...
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... secret ceremonies I conceal , Uncouth , perhaps unlawful , to reveal : But such they were as pagan use requir'd , Perform'd by women when the men retir'd , Whose eyes prophane their chaste mysterious rites Might turn to scandal , or ...
... secret ceremonies I conceal , Uncouth , perhaps unlawful , to reveal : But such they were as pagan use requir'd , Perform'd by women when the men retir'd , Whose eyes prophane their chaste mysterious rites Might turn to scandal , or ...
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Ah willow Arcite arm'd arms beauteous behold blood bore breast breath call'd Chanticleer charms coursers Creon crown'd cry'd Cymon dame death dream dy'd Earth Emily ev'n eyes fair fame fate fear fight fire flames forc'd Fortune Gaul grace green ground grove hand happy heart Heaven Hesiod honour horrour join'd JOSEPH ADDISON Jove kind king knight labour ladies laurel light liv'd look'd lord lov'd Lysimachus maid mind mortal Muse Nature's never numbers nymphs o'er pain Palamon pass'd Philostratus Pirithous plac'd plain pleas'd pointed lance prepar'd prescience prey pride prince proud queen race rais'd ravish'd renown'd resolv'd rest Reynard Rhodian rich rise secret seem'd shade shine sigh'd sight sing slain song soul sound Splendid Shilling steed stood sung sweet sword Thebes thee Theseus thine THOMAS PARNELL thou thought troop turn'd Twas virtue vows wind wine wood youth
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Página 2 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Página 3 - Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Página 104 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Página 213 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm...
Página 6 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Página 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Página 276 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Página 209 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Página 169 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire ; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. " Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay ; In narrow mazes oft it seem'd to meet, . And look'd as lightly ^press'd by fairy feet.
Página 274 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.