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... mihi lepidum tellus longinqua fodalem Debet , at unde brevi reddere juffa velit . Me tenet urbs refluâ quam Thamefis alluit undâ , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revifere Camum Nec dudum vetiti me ...
... mihi lepidum tellus longinqua fodalem Debet , at unde brevi reddere juffa velit . Me tenet urbs refluâ quam Thamefis alluit undâ , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revifere Camum Nec dudum vetiti me ...
Page 313
... mihi vifus eram lato fpatiarier agro , Heu nequit ingenium vifa referre meum . Illic puniceâ radiabant omnia luce , Ut matutino cum juga fole rubent . Ac veluti cum pandit opes Thaumantia proles , Veftitu nituit multicolore folum , Non ...
... mihi vifus eram lato fpatiarier agro , Heu nequit ingenium vifa referre meum . Illic puniceâ radiabant omnia luce , Ut matutino cum juga fole rubent . Ac veluti cum pandit opes Thaumantia proles , Veftitu nituit multicolore folum , Non ...
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... mihi cum tenebris aurea pulfa quies . Flebam turbatos Cephaleiâ pellice fomnos , Talia contingant fomnia fæpe mihi . Elegia quarta . Anno Ætatis 18 . Ad Thomam Junium Præceptorem fuum , apud Mercatores Anglicos Hamburge agentes ...
... mihi cum tenebris aurea pulfa quies . Flebam turbatos Cephaleiâ pellice fomnos , Talia contingant fomnia fæpe mihi . Elegia quarta . Anno Ætatis 18 . Ad Thomam Junium Præceptorem fuum , apud Mercatores Anglicos Hamburge agentes ...
Page 315
... mihi quot pelagi , quot montes interjecti Me faciunt aliâ parte carere mei ! Charior ille mihi , quàm tu doctiflime Graium Cliniadi , pronepos qui Telamonis erat . Quámque Stagirites generofo magnus alumno , Quem peperit Libyco Chaonis ...
... mihi quot pelagi , quot montes interjecti Me faciunt aliâ parte carere mei ! Charior ille mihi , quàm tu doctiflime Graium Cliniadi , pronepos qui Telamonis erat . Quámque Stagirites generofo magnus alumno , Quem peperit Libyco Chaonis ...
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... mihi Pyrenen fomnia nocte ferunt . Concitaque arcano fervent mihi pectora motu , Et furor , & fonitus me facer intùs agit . Delius ipfe venit , video Peneide lauro Implicitos crines , Delius ipfe venit . Jam mihi mens liquidi raptatur ...
... mihi Pyrenen fomnia nocte ferunt . Concitaque arcano fervent mihi pectora motu , Et furor , & fonitus me facer intùs agit . Delius ipfe venit , video Peneide lauro Implicitos crines , Delius ipfe venit . Jam mihi mens liquidi raptatur ...
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Page 142 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 28 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Page 322 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 142 - Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan...
Page 157 - With their grave saws in slumber lie We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Page 126 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 23 - Is yet more kingly ? this attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part; That other o'er the body only reigns, And oft by force, which, to a generous mind, So reigning, can be no sincere delight.
Page 127 - Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament...
Page 2 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 128 - ... reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds. And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea, He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?