Bell's Edition, Volumes 41-42J. Bell, 1777 |
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Pagina 45
... skies , Ere yet abroad the winged thunder flies , 6 An horrid stilness first invades the ear , And in that silence we the tempest fear . Th ' ambitious Swede , like restless billows toss'd , On this hand gaining what on that he lost ...
... skies , Ere yet abroad the winged thunder flies , 6 An horrid stilness first invades the ear , And in that silence we the tempest fear . Th ' ambitious Swede , like restless billows toss'd , On this hand gaining what on that he lost ...
Pagina 47
... skies . How easy ' tis , when Destiny proves kind , With full spread sails to run before the wind ' But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Must be at once resolv'd and skiful too . 60 65 He would not , like soft Otho , hope ...
... skies . How easy ' tis , when Destiny proves kind , With full spread sails to run before the wind ' But those that ' gainst stiff gales laveering go , Must be at once resolv'd and skiful too . 60 65 He would not , like soft Otho , hope ...
Pagina 49
... skies , 110 Made him , at his own cost , like Adam , wise . Tremble , ye Nations , who , secure before , Laugh'd at those arms that ' gainst ourselves we bore ; Rous'd by the lash of his own stubborn tail , 116 Our lion now will foreign ...
... skies , 110 Made him , at his own cost , like Adam , wise . Tremble , ye Nations , who , secure before , Laugh'd at those arms that ' gainst ourselves we bore ; Rous'd by the lash of his own stubborn tail , 116 Our lion now will foreign ...
Pagina 50
... skies , and ravish'd Charles from [ thence , 145 As heav'n itself is took by violence . Booth's forward valour only serv'd to show He durst that duty pay we all did owe : Th ' attempt was fair ; but Heav'ns prefixed hour Not come : so ...
... skies , and ravish'd Charles from [ thence , 145 As heav'n itself is took by violence . Booth's forward valour only serv'd to show He durst that duty pay we all did owe : Th ' attempt was fair ; but Heav'ns prefixed hour Not come : so ...
Pagina 53
... skies , And as it fares in sudden ecstasies , } 230 At once bereft us both of ears and eyes . The Naseby , now no longer England's shame , But better to be lost in Charles ' name , ( Like some unequal bride in nobler sheets ) Receives ...
... skies , And as it fares in sudden ecstasies , } 230 At once bereft us both of ears and eyes . The Naseby , now no longer England's shame , But better to be lost in Charles ' name , ( Like some unequal bride in nobler sheets ) Receives ...
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Pagina 113 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Pagina 113 - 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...
Pagina 113 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Pagina 110 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the...
Pagina 113 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pagina 32 - Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Pagina 179 - That every man, with him, was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Pagina 115 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Pagina 178 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was...
Pagina 179 - Thus, heaping wealth, by the most ready way Among the Jews, which was to cheat and pray; The city, to reward his pious hate Against his master, chose him magistrate: His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.