Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1784 - English poetry |
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... flame , Is entertain'd with fome lefs ferious game , Among the bright nymphs of the Gallick court , 115 All highly born , obfequious to her fport : They rofes feem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties ...
... flame , Is entertain'd with fome lefs ferious game , Among the bright nymphs of the Gallick court , 115 All highly born , obfequious to her fport : They rofes feem , which in their early pride But half reveal , and half their beauties ...
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... flame Kindled in his breast canft tame With that fnow which unmelted lies on thine . Great Goddess ! give this thy facred island reft ; Make heav'n fmile , That no ftorm disturb us while Thy chief care , our halcyon , builds her neft ...
... flame Kindled in his breast canft tame With that fnow which unmelted lies on thine . Great Goddess ! give this thy facred island reft ; Make heav'n fmile , That no ftorm disturb us while Thy chief care , our halcyon , builds her neft ...
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... flames No lefs amaz'd than the amazed stars , When the bold charmer of Theffalia wars With Heav'n itself , and numbers does repeat , Which call defcending Cynthia from her feat . IX . In answer to one who writ a libel against the ...
... flames No lefs amaz'd than the amazed stars , When the bold charmer of Theffalia wars With Heav'n itself , and numbers does repeat , Which call defcending Cynthia from her feat . IX . In answer to one who writ a libel against the ...
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... flame ! The matchlefs Sidney ‡ , that immortal frame Of perfect beauty , on two pillars plac'd , Not his high fancy could one pattern , grac'd * Orphicus . † Pamela . Sir Philip Sidney , 10 With fuch extremes of excellence , compofe ...
... flame ! The matchlefs Sidney ‡ , that immortal frame Of perfect beauty , on two pillars plac'd , Not his high fancy could one pattern , grac'd * Orphicus . † Pamela . Sir Philip Sidney , 10 With fuch extremes of excellence , compofe ...
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... flame , It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart ! - Go , Boy , and carve this paffion on the bark Of yonder tree , which stands the facred mark Of noble Sidney's birth ; when fuch benign , Such ...
... flame , It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart ! - Go , Boy , and carve this paffion on the bark Of yonder tree , which stands the facred mark Of noble Sidney's birth ; when fuch benign , Such ...
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Page 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Page 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Page xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Page xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Page 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Page 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Page 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Page xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Page 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove