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... fair troop David's tall brethren rode , And Joab , comely as a fancied god ; They entertain'd the ' attentive Moab lords With loose and various talk that chance affords , Whilst they paced slowly on ; but the wise king Did David's ...
... fair troop David's tall brethren rode , And Joab , comely as a fancied god ; They entertain'd the ' attentive Moab lords With loose and various talk that chance affords , Whilst they paced slowly on ; but the wise king Did David's ...
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... fair stranger's eyes , As to a sudden war , the town does rise , Shaking and pale , half - dead ere they begin The strange and wanton tragedy of their sin : All their wild lusts they force her to sustain , Till by shame , sorrow ...
... fair stranger's eyes , As to a sudden war , the town does rise , Shaking and pale , half - dead ere they begin The strange and wanton tragedy of their sin : All their wild lusts they force her to sustain , Till by shame , sorrow ...
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... fair leaves he saw the canker dwell : A mutinous itch of change ; a dull despair Of helps divine , oft proved ; a faithless care Of common means ; the pride of heart and scorn Of the ' humble yoke under low Judges borne . They saw the ...
... fair leaves he saw the canker dwell : A mutinous itch of change ; a dull despair Of helps divine , oft proved ; a faithless care Of common means ; the pride of heart and scorn Of the ' humble yoke under low Judges borne . They saw the ...
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... fair bullocks fry In hallowed flames ; above , there mount on high The precious clouds of incense ; and , at last , The sprinkling prayers , and all due honours , pass'd , Lo ! we the sacred bells o ' the ' sudden hear , And in mild ...
... fair bullocks fry In hallowed flames ; above , there mount on high The precious clouds of incense ; and , at last , The sprinkling prayers , and all due honours , pass'd , Lo ! we the sacred bells o ' the ' sudden hear , And in mild ...
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... fair pine o'erlooking all the ' ignobler wood . Of all our rural sports he was the pride ; So swift , so strong , so dexterous , none beside . Rest was his toil , labours his lust and game ; No natural wants could his fierce diligence ...
... fair pine o'erlooking all the ' ignobler wood . Of all our rural sports he was the pride ; So swift , so strong , so dexterous , none beside . Rest was his toil , labours his lust and game ; No natural wants could his fierce diligence ...
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Page 50 - ... the estates and lives of three kingdoms as much at his disposal as was the little inheritance of his father, and to be as noble and liberal in the spending of them ; and lastly, for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory, to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace...
Page 200 - And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than palace ; and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabin field.
Page 183 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 204 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Page 75 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Page 93 - The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made for themselves, under whatever form it be of government. The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. Of this latter we are here to discourse.
Page 119 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Page 103 - He is guarded with crowds, and shackled with formalities. The half hat, the whole hat, the half smile, the whole smile, the nod, the embrace, the positive parting with a little bow, the comparative at the middle of the room, the superlative at the door ; and, if the person be pan huper...
Page 130 - I shall only instance in one delight more, the most natural and best natured of all others, a perpetual companion of the husbandman: and that is, the satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing nothing but the effects and improvements of his own art and diligence; to be always gathering of some fruits of it, and at the same time to behold others ripening, and others budding; to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous creatures of his own industry; and to see, like God, that...
Page 205 - Nor by me e'er shall you, You of all names the sweetest, and the best, You Muses, books, and liberty, and rest; You gardens, fields, and woods forsaken be, As long as life itself forsakes not me.