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Common terms and phrasesAdrastus ancient Argos arms bear beauty behold blest bliss blood breast bright charms clouds Cocytus crown'd cry'd Dæmons dame delight dread Dryope e'er earth Eclogues EPISTLE Eteocles eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fense flame flow'ry fools foul fung fury glory gods grace groves hair happy hear heart heav'n heav'nly honours Jove king Laius lord lov'd lyre maid mankind mind mortal mournful Muse nature night numbers nymph o'er once passion Phœbus plain pleas'd pleasure poet Polynices pow'r praise pray'r pride race rage reign rife sacred Sappho shade shine sields sierce sighs sight sing sire sirst six'd skies soft soul spouse streams Sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus thine thou thought thro tow'rs trees trembling Twas Tydeus Vertumnus virgin virtue wife winds wretched youth Popular passagesPage 57 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire. Page 256 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line... Page 337 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Page 101 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th... Page 289 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man. Page 296 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. Page 284 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise... Page 92 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Page 279 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil... Page 328 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas! Bibliographic information
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