The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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adore Alcinous arms beauteous beauty beneath bless bless'd bliss bloom brave breast breath bright celestial charms COSMELIA Cretheus cried Cupid dark dear death Deity Delia delight despair divine e'er ELIJAH FENTON Enipeus eternal eyes fair falchion fame fate fear Fenton flame flowing tears foes give glorious glory gods grace grief grove happy Heaven honour immortal JOHN POMFRET join'd Jove labour live lute lyre mighty mind misery mortal mourn Muse ne'er Neleus night noble numbers nymph o'er OVID pain pass'd passion Peleus Phaon Phoebus PINDARIC pity plain poison'd possess'd praise pursue rage rapture Reason reign return'd round ruin sacred Sappho shade shine sigh sing skies smiling soft soon sorrow soul Strephon sure swain sweet tears tender thee thou thought throne trembling Venus verse virtue vows warbling waves weeping Whilst wise wondrous wretched youth
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Page 195 - Orphean lyre I sung of chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.
Page 144 - ... report the valuable ones of any other man. So the elegy I renounce. I condole with you from my heart, on the loss of so worthy a man, and a friend to us both. Now he is gone...
Page 10 - I'd have a clear and competent estate, That I might live genteelly, but not great : As much as I could moderately spend ; A little more, sometimes t' oblige a friend. Nor should the sons of poverty repine Too much at fortune, they should taste of mine ; And all that objects of true pity were, Should be...
Page 144 - I know an instance where he did his utmost to conceal his own merit that way ; and if we join to this his natural love of ease, I fancy we must expect little of this sort : at least I...
Page 13 - Give life an edge so keen, no surly care Would venture to assault my soul, or dare, Near my retreat, to hide one secret snare. But so divine, so noble a repast I'd seldom, and with moderation, taste : For highest cordials all their virtue lose, By a too frequent and too bold a use ; And what would cheer the spirits in distress, Ruins our health, when taken to excess.
Page 252 - Sleep, unprovoked, will softly seal his eyes, And innocence the want of down supplies; Health tempers all his cups, and at his board Reigns the cheap luxury the fields afford : Like the great Trojan, mantled in a cloud...
Page 61 - Who moves within the middle region, shares The least disquiets, and the smallest cares. Let her extraction with true lustre shine ; If something brighter, not too bright for thine : Her education liberal, not great ; Neither inferior nor above her state. Let her have wit ; but let that wit be free From affectation, pride, or pedantry : For the effect of woman's wit is such, Too little is as dangerous as too much.
Page 12 - Near some obliging, modest fair to live : For there's that sweetness in a female mind Which in a man's we cannot hope to find...
Page 14 - But by a silent and a peaceful death, Without a sigh, resign my aged breath. And, when committed to the dust, I'd have Few tears, but friendly, dropt into my grave ; Then would my exit so propitious be, All men would wish to live and die like me.
Page 10 - Ovid too, Who all the turns of love's soft passion knew: He that with judgment reads his charming lines, In which strong art with stronger nature joins...