Preface. Poems on several occasions. An essay on Virgil's GeorgicsJ. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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الصفحة xxxv
... eyes . If business calls , or crouded courts invite , Th'unblemish'd statesman seems to ftrike my fight ; If in the stage I feek to footh my care , I meet his foul which breathes in Cato there ; If penfive to the rural fhades I rove ...
... eyes . If business calls , or crouded courts invite , Th'unblemish'd statesman seems to ftrike my fight ; If in the stage I feek to footh my care , I meet his foul which breathes in Cato there ; If penfive to the rural fhades I rove ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... eye - balls glance the fudden tears ! How sweet were once thy profpects fresh and fair , Thy floping walks , and unpolluted air ! How sweet the gloomes beneath thy aged trees , Thy noon - tide fhadow , and thy evening breeze ! His image ...
... eye - balls glance the fudden tears ! How sweet were once thy profpects fresh and fair , Thy floping walks , and unpolluted air ! How sweet the gloomes beneath thy aged trees , Thy noon - tide fhadow , and thy evening breeze ! His image ...
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... eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a - while forget the trumpet's found ; Well pleas'd , thy people's loyalty approve , Accept their duty , and enjoy their love . For as when lately mov'd with fierce delight , You ...
... eye ; Let nothing dreadful in thy face be found , But for a - while forget the trumpet's found ; Well pleas'd , thy people's loyalty approve , Accept their duty , and enjoy their love . For as when lately mov'd with fierce delight , You ...
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... eyes Survey the heav'ns , and fearch the clouded skies To find out breeding ftorms , and tell what tem- posts rise . By turns they ease the loaden fwarms or drive The drone , a lazy infect , from their hive . The work is warmly ply'd ...
... eyes Survey the heav'ns , and fearch the clouded skies To find out breeding ftorms , and tell what tem- posts rise . By turns they ease the loaden fwarms or drive The drone , a lazy infect , from their hive . The work is warmly ply'd ...
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... and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader prefs : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us lefs . One One glittering thought no fooner strikes our eyes With filent 46 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
... and lavish of his thought : His turns too closely on the reader prefs : He more had pleas'd us , had he pleas'd us lefs . One One glittering thought no fooner strikes our eyes With filent 46 POEMS on feveral OCCASIONS .
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Æneid Aëre æther amidſt arms atque BAROMETRI bleft bluſhes breaſt bright Cadmus caft courfe courſe Cycnus defcription diftant eaſe ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fecret feven fhade fhall fhining fhore fhould fide fight fince fire firft firſt fkies flain fome fong foul fpring ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fuci Gaul Georgic goddeſs Gods Gulfton heav'n herſelf himſelf itſelf Jove laft laſt loft maid mighty moſt Mufe Muſe muſt neighb'ring Nimbis numbers Nunc nymph o'er omne Ovid Ovid's paffion Pentheus Phaeton pleaſe pleaſure poem poet purſue Quæ rage raiſe reft rife rifu riſe round ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhow ſkies ſky ſmoke ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtill ſtood ſtory ſtreams thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thunder transform'd turba verfe verſe view'd Virgil Whilft whofe winds woods wou'd youth
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الصفحة xxx - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints who taught, and led, the way to Heaven...
الصفحة xxxii - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
الصفحة 65 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
الصفحة 87 - While to exalt thy doom, th' aspiring Gaul Shares thy destruction, and adorns thy fall. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Temp'ring each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. Long did he strive th...
الصفحة 87 - That proudly set thee on a fancy'd throne, And made imaginary realms thy own ! Thy troops, that now behind the Danube join, .Shall...
الصفحة 304 - ... to a bee than to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the...
الصفحة 67 - I've already troubled you too long, Nor dare attempt a more advent'rous song. My humble verse demands a softer theme, A painted mea,dow, or a purling stream ; Unfit for heroes; whom immortal lays, And lines like Virgil's, or like yours, should praise.
الصفحة 63 - On foreign mountains may the Sun refine The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine, With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil : We envy not the warmer clime, that lies...
الصفحة 55 - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song. That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
الصفحة xl - How thy own laurel firft began to grow ; How wild Lycaon, chang'd by angry Gods, And frighted at himfelf, ran howling thro