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Tremble , ye Nations ! who , secure before , Laugh'd at those arms that ' gainst
ourselves we bore ; Rous'd by the lash of his own stubborn tail , Our Lion now will
foreign foes assail . With alga who the sacred altar strows ?To all the sea - gods ...
Tremble , ye Nations ! who , secure before , Laugh'd at those arms that ' gainst
ourselves we bore ; Rous'd by the lash of his own stubborn tail , Our Lion now will
foreign foes assail . With alga who the sacred altar strows ?To all the sea - gods ...
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But he , unmov'd , contemns their idle threat , Secure of fame whene'er he pleas'd
to fight : His cold experience tempers all his heat , And inbred worth doth
boasting valour slight . CXVI . Heroic virtue did his actions guide , And he the ...
But he , unmov'd , contemns their idle threat , Secure of fame whene'er he pleas'd
to fight : His cold experience tempers all his heat , And inbred worth doth
boasting valour slight . CXVI . Heroic virtue did his actions guide , And he the ...
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Behold another Sylvester , to bless The sacred standard , and secure success ;
Large of his treasures , of a soul so great , As fills and crowds his universal seat .
Now view at home a second Constantine ; ( The former too was of the British line
) ...
Behold another Sylvester , to bless The sacred standard , and secure success ;
Large of his treasures , of a soul so great , As fills and crowds his universal seat .
Now view at home a second Constantine ; ( The former too was of the British line
) ...
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Secure his person to secure your cause ; They who possess the prince possess
the laws . He said , and this advice , above the rest , With Absalom's mild nature
suited best ; Unblam'd of life , ambition set a side , Not stain'd with cruelty , nor ...
Secure his person to secure your cause ; They who possess the prince possess
the laws . He said , and this advice , above the rest , With Absalom's mild nature
suited best ; Unblam'd of life , ambition set a side , Not stain'd with cruelty , nor ...
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830 In deep - revolving thoughts he weighs his state , Secure of craft , nor doubts
to baffle Fate ; At least if his storm bark'd must go adrift , To balk his charge , and
for himself to shift , In which his dext'rous wit had oft been shown , And in the ...
830 In deep - revolving thoughts he weighs his state , Secure of craft , nor doubts
to baffle Fate ; At least if his storm bark'd must go adrift , To balk his charge , and
for himself to shift , In which his dext'rous wit had oft been shown , And in 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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