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With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; 80 Thus banish'd David spent
abroad his time , When to be God's anointed was his crime ; And when restor'd
made his proud neighbours rute Those choice remarks he from his travels drew ,
To ...
With hunger , cold , and angry Jove did fight ; 80 Thus banish'd David spent
abroad his time , When to be God's anointed was his crime ; And when restor'd
made his proud neighbours rute Those choice remarks he from his travels drew ,
To ...
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Both furl their sails , and strip them for the fight ; Their folded sheets dismiss the
useless air : Th ' Elian plains could boast no nobler fight , When struggling
champions did their bodies bare . LVII . Borne each by other in a distant line , The
sea ...
Both furl their sails , and strip them for the fight ; Their folded sheets dismiss the
useless air : Th ' Elian plains could boast no nobler fight , When struggling
champions did their bodies bare . LVII . Borne each by other in a distant line , The
sea ...
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Soo Ply'd thick and close as when the fight begun , Their huge'unwieldy navy
wastes away : So sicken weaning moons too near the sun , And blunt their
crescents on the edge of day . CXXVI . And now reduc'd on equal terms to fight ,
Their ...
Soo Ply'd thick and close as when the fight begun , Their huge'unwieldy navy
wastes away : So sicken weaning moons too near the sun , And blunt their
crescents on the edge of day . CXXVI . And now reduc'd on equal terms to fight ,
Their ...
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He casts a frown on the departing foe , And sighs to see him quit the wat'ry field :
His stern fix'd eyes no satisfaction show , For all the glories which the fight did
yield . CXXXVII . Tho ' , as when fiends did miracles avow , He stands confess'd ...
He casts a frown on the departing foe , And sighs to see him quit the wat'ry field :
His stern fix'd eyes no satisfaction show , For all the glories which the fight did
yield . CXXXVII . Tho ' , as when fiends did miracles avow , He stands confess'd ...
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To the pale foes they suddenly draw near , And summon them to unexpected
fight : They start like murderers when ghosts appear , And draw their curtains in
the dead of night . CLXXXVI . Now van to van the foremost squadrons meet , The
...
To the pale foes they suddenly draw near , And summon them to unexpected
fight : They start like murderers when ghosts appear , And draw their curtains in
the dead of night . CLXXXVI . Now van to van the foremost squadrons meet , The
...
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Page 203 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble ; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying ; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Page 87 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires, My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights, and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am ; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task : my doubts are done ; What more could fright my faith than Three in One...
Page 200 - Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touched the lyre: The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above, Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form...
Page 25 - For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 205 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
Page 25 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 183 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade: In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale; Love's kingdom...
Page 39 - tis to rule, for that's a monarch's end. They call my tenderness of blood my fear ; Though manly tempers can the longest bear. Yet, since they will divert my native course, 'Tis time to show I am not good by force.
Page 201 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 34 - Behold th' approaching cliffs of Albion : It is no longer motion cheats your view, As you meet it, the land approacheth you. The land returns, and, in the white it wears, The marks of penitence and sorrow bears.
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 40-41 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1801 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2006 |
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