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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesÆneid ancient Atalantis Author Bard beauty behold Belinda blest bold breathe bright Chaos-like charms courser Critics crown'd Cynthus Dæmons e'er earth Eclogue Envy Eurydice ev'n ev'ry eyes facred faid fair fame fate fatire favage flocks flow'rs fools forests fubject fuch fung Genius glory Gnome Gods grace groves hair head hear heart heav'n heav'nly Homer honours Imitations judgment lays learn'd lise Lock lyre maid mourn Muse Muse's Nature ne'er numbers nymph o'er once Ovid Pastoral Petronius plain pleas'd Poem Poetry Poets pow'r praise pride rage resound rise River Loddon scene sense shade shepherds shining shore sields sierce sighs silver sing sire sirst Edition skies soft song spirits Spleen spring strains streams STREPHON swain Swist Sylphs sylvan tears Thalestris Thames thee Theocritus thine thou thought thro trees trembling Umbriel vales Variations verse Virg Virgil winds write Popular passagesPage 117 - Which lives as long as fools are pleas'd to laugh. Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind : Fondly we think we honour merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. Page 112 - 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... Page 157 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky... Page 145 - 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 118 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours... Page 149 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Page 148 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With... Page 46 - On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods. Page 145 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes. The busy Sylphs surround their darling Care... Page 108 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine. And glittering thoughts struck out at every line; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Bibliographic information
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