Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part, Volume 5 |
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Arms Atrides Beauty beſt Bleſſing bleſt Bliſs Boſom Breast bright Brutus Cauſe ceaſe CHARLES HOPKINS Charms chuſe Cinyras cloſe cou'd Courſe Dart Defire Deſign deſign'd Deſpair Diſdain diſtant e'er e're Earth ev'n ev'ry Eyes faid Fair falſe fame fatal Fate fear Fire firſt Flame foon Friendſhip fuch Gods Grace Hand haſte Heart Heav'n inſpires JOSEPH ADDISON Jove Joys juſt laſt leſs Light loſt lov'd Love Lover mighty moſt Muſe muſt ne'er Night Numbers Nymph o're Ovid Paſſion paſt Pentheus pleaſing Pleaſure Poet Pow'r Praiſe Pray'r preſent Procris purſue Rage Reaſon reſt riſe roſe ſaid ſay ſcarce ſee ſeems ſeen ſelf Senſe ſet ſhall ſhe ſhining ſhort ſhou'd ſhow Skies ſoft ſome SONG Soul ſpeak ſpoke ſtand ſtill ſtood Strephon ſtrive ſtrong ſuch ſure ſweet thee theſe thoſe thou Thoughts thouſand thro uſe vaſt Verſe whoſe Winds wou'd wretched Youth
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Page 540 - At length he rais'd his head, and thus began To vent his griefs, and tell the woods his pain.
Page 204 - Shadrach's zeal my glowing breast inspire, To weary tortures, and rejoice in fire ; Or had I faith like that which Israel saw When Moses gave them miracles and law...
Page 6 - That on its public shows unpeopled Rome, And held uncrowded nations in its womb : Here pillars rough with sculpture pierce the skies : And here the proud triumphal arches rise, Where the old Romans deathless acts display'd.
Page 64 - The horses started with a sudden bound, And flung the reins and chariot to the ground ; The studded harness from their necks they broke ; Here fell a wheel, and here a silver spoke, Here were the beam and axle torn away ; And, scatter'd o'er the earth, the shining fragments lay.
Page 218 - IN vain you tell your parting lover, You wish fair winds may waft him over. Alas! what winds can happy prove, That bear me far from what I love ? Alas! what dangers on the main Can equal those that I sustain, From slighted vows, and cold disdain?
Page 10 - 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 In ten degrees of more indulgent skies, Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine; Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.
Page 211 - For, while she makes her silk-worms beds With all the tender things I swear ; Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round her baby's hair ; She may receive and own my flame, For, though...
Page 547 - Of women's yells, those stubborn souls disarm, Whom nor the sword nor trumpet e'er could fright, Nor the loud din and horror of a fight ? And you, our sires, who left your old abodes, And fix'd in foreign earth your country gods ; Will you without a...
Page 514 - The pointed jav'lin warded off his rage : Mad with his pains, and furious to engage, The serpent champs the steel, and bites the spear, Till blood and venom all the point besmear.
Page 206 - So whilst our mind its knowledge would improve, (Its feeble eye intent on things above,) High as we may, we lift our reason up, By faith...