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Common terms and phrasesaddress'd Adrastus Argive arms atque Atrides band bard beauty behold blest bloom bosom breast bright charms chief CHRISTOPHER SMART Creon Deiphobus Diomed Diomede divine dread e'er Earth epic poetry ev'n ev'ry eyes fair falchion fame fate fear flame fury gen'rous genius glory goddess gods golden grace grief grove hand hear heart Heav'n hero hero's honour immortal Jove king light lord lyre maid martial merit mighty mind monarch mortal Muse nature ne'er night numbers nymph o'er Pallas passion PAUL WHITEHEAD peace Philoctetes plain poem poet pow'r praise Pylian rage reign rise round sacred shade shining shore sighs sire skies smiles soft song soul sound stood streams suspiria swain sway sweet tempest terque Theban Thebes thee thine thou thro toil tow'rs trembling Tydeus Tydides vengeance verse virtue voice warriors winds wing wou'd youth Popular passagesPage 455 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Page 454 - The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. Page 83 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Page 70 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore... Page 87 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. Page 454 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last. Page 451 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms... Page 454 - And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove... Page 450 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die; These, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. Page 70 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarIdentifying" WO" of Marshfield, Gloucestershire: William Oland's ...Emily Lorraine De Montluzin - 2006 - ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews References from web pagesAlexander Chalmers, Works of the English Poets VII. Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson ... Mulberry tree: Definition with Mulberry tree Pictures and Photos Bibliographic information
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