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Some lazy ages , lost in sleep and ease , No action leave to busy chronicles :
Such whose šapine felicity but makes In story chasms , and epochas mistakes ; O
'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of down , Till with his silent sickle they are
...
Some lazy ages , lost in sleep and ease , No action leave to busy chronicles :
Such whose šapine felicity but makes In story chasms , and epochas mistakes ; O
'er whom Time gently shakes his wings of down , Till with his silent sickle they are
...
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Enough of early saints one womb has giv'n ; Enough increas'd the family of Heav'
n : Let them for his and our atonement go , And reigning bless'd above leave him
to rule below Enough already has the year foreshow'd ; His wonted course the ...
Enough of early saints one womb has giv'n ; Enough increas'd the family of Heav'
n : Let them for his and our atonement go , And reigning bless'd above leave him
to rule below Enough already has the year foreshow'd ; His wonted course the ...
Page 135
... Forcd with regret to leave her native sphere , Came but awhile on liking here ; ·
Some weary of the painful strife , And made THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 135.
... Forcd with regret to leave her native sphere , Came but awhile on liking here ; ·
Some weary of the painful strife , And made THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS . 135.
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Illustrious youth , return'd Achithophel , Misconstrue not the words that mean you
well . The course you steer I worthy blame conclude , But ' tis because you leave
it unpursu'd . A monarch's crown with fate surrounded lies , Who reach , lay hold ...
Illustrious youth , return'd Achithophel , Misconstrue not the words that mean you
well . The course you steer I worthy blame conclude , But ' tis because you leave
it unpursu'd . A monarch's crown with fate surrounded lies , Who reach , lay hold ...
Page 192
Leave writing Plays , and chuse for thy command Some peaceful province in
Acrostic land : There thou may'st wings display , and altars raise , And torture one
poor word ten thousand ways : Or if thou would'st thy diff'rent talents suit , Set thy
...
Leave writing Plays , and chuse for thy command Some peaceful province in
Acrostic land : There thou may'st wings display , and altars raise , And torture one
poor word ten thousand ways : Or if thou would'st thy diff'rent talents suit , Set thy
...
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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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