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Common terms and phrasesancient Author beauty behold Belinda blest bold bright charms Commentary courser Critic crown'd Cynthus Dĉmons Dunciad earth Eclogue envy Eurydice ev'n ev'ry eyes fair false fame fate fense fire flow'rs fools Genius give glory Gnome Gods grace groves hair head heart heav'n Homer Homer nods honour Imitations judge judgment lays learn'd learning light lines Lock Lord Lansdown lyre maid Menander mind moral mournful Muse Muse's Nature Notes numbers nymph o'er observes once Ovid painted Pastoral plain pleas'd poem Poet Poet's Poetry pow'r praise precept pride quĉ rage resound rise Rome Rosicrucian rules sacred scene SEMICHORUS sense shade shepherds shews shine silver sing skies soft song soul spring strains streams STREPHON swains Sylphs sylvan tears Thalestris Thames thee Theocritus thine things thor thou thought thro trembling true truth Umbriel Variations verse Virg Virgil write Popular passagesPage 99 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Page 146 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Page 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen. Page 247 - But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw... Page 171 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing through the judgment gains The heart and all its end at once attains. Page 241 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. Page 275 - The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees! Page 207 - And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools; But still the worst with most regret commend. For each ill author is as bad a friend. To what base ends, and by what abject ways, 520 Are mortals urged through sacred Page 178 - Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more... Page 191 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze... Bibliographic information
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