Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1801 - English poetry |
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... Grace's lash were , The Wild Gallant , Tyrannic Love , The Conquest of Granada , Marriage â - la Mode , and Love in a Nunnery . Whatever was extravagant , or too warmly expressed , or any way unnatural , the author has ridiculed by ...
... Grace's lash were , The Wild Gallant , Tyrannic Love , The Conquest of Granada , Marriage â - la Mode , and Love in a Nunnery . Whatever was extravagant , or too warmly expressed , or any way unnatural , the author has ridiculed by ...
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... grace did more excel , Or royal city more in duty strove . CCXLII . Nor with an idle care did he behold ; ( Subjects may grieve , but monarchs must redress ) He cheers the fearful , and commends the bold , And makes despairers hope for ...
... grace did more excel , Or royal city more in duty strove . CCXLII . Nor with an idle care did he behold ; ( Subjects may grieve , but monarchs must redress ) He cheers the fearful , and commends the bold , And makes despairers hope for ...
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... grace , 130 For she herself had made his count'nance bright , Breath'd honour on his eyes , and her own purple light . Alluding to the temptations in the wilderness . Virg . Eneid . 1 . Dryden . ] Kij If our victorious Edward , as they ...
... grace , 130 For she herself had made his count'nance bright , Breath'd honour on his eyes , and her own purple light . Alluding to the temptations in the wilderness . Virg . Eneid . 1 . Dryden . ] Kij If our victorious Edward , as they ...
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... grace , His ev'ry mercy for an alms may pass ; With sparing hands will diet us to good , Preventing surfeits of our pamper'd blood . So feeds the mother - bird her craving young With little morsels , and delays ' em long . True , this ...
... grace , His ev'ry mercy for an alms may pass ; With sparing hands will diet us to good , Preventing surfeits of our pamper'd blood . So feeds the mother - bird her craving young With little morsels , and delays ' em long . True , this ...
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... grace : Study and pains were now no more their care : Texts were explain'd by fasting and by pray'r : This was the fruit the private spirit brought Occasion'd by great zeal and little thought . While crowds unlearn'd , with rude ...
... grace : Study and pains were now no more their care : Texts were explain'd by fasting and by pray'r : This was the fruit the private spirit brought Occasion'd by great zeal and little thought . While crowds unlearn'd , with rude ...
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Absalom Achithophel arms arts Behold Belgian bless'd blessing blood bold brave breast Charles Charles Dryden CHRO church conscience crimes crowd crown David's design'd Dryden e'en Elkanah Settle ev'ry Exeter Exchange eyes faction faith fame fate father fear fight fire flames fleet foes forc'd friends gold grace hand happy hast hate Heav'n Hebron Hind honour int'rest Isr'el Jebusites Jews JOHN DRYDEN kind king land laws look'd Lord mighty monarch Muse ne'er never numbers o'er once Panther peace Phaleg plain plot poem poet pow'r praise pray'r pretend prey pride prince PRINCESS OF WALES promis'd rage rais'd rebel reign reply'd rest rise royal ruin sacred satire satire of Juvenal Scripture sects seem'd sense shew shore sight soul sov'reign stand suff'rings sway thee thou thought thro throne Timotheus true truth try'd Twas VIRG virtue wind wise youth
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Page 205 - 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 89 - 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 202 - 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 27 - 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 207 - 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 27 - 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 185 - 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 41 - 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 203 - 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 36 - 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.