The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 20J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... death . Upon this occasion some authors have taxed him with an action , which , if true , had been an eternal stain upon his name , that , to save his life , he informed against his mother . This story seems to me to be a mere calumny ...
... death . Upon this occasion some authors have taxed him with an action , which , if true , had been an eternal stain upon his name , that , to save his life , he informed against his mother . This story seems to me to be a mere calumny ...
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... Death will not always wait upon command ; About to strike , the slave with horrour shook , The useless steel his loosening gripe forsook ; Thick flashing flames a light unusual gave , And sudden shone around the gloomy cave ; Dreadful ...
... Death will not always wait upon command ; About to strike , the slave with horrour shook , The useless steel his loosening gripe forsook ; Thick flashing flames a light unusual gave , And sudden shone around the gloomy cave ; Dreadful ...
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... death , And sense is lost with our expiring breath ; Or , if the soul some future life shall know , To better worlds immortal shall she go : Whate'er event the doubtful question clears , Death most be still unworthy of our fears . " Now ...
... death , And sense is lost with our expiring breath ; Or , if the soul some future life shall know , To better worlds immortal shall she go : Whate'er event the doubtful question clears , Death most be still unworthy of our fears . " Now ...
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... death , or banishment , they stand , And wait their doom from his disposing hand : But he , by secret shame's reproaches staid , Blush'd to command , what Rome would have Yet liberty , thus slighted and betray'd , One last effort with ...
... death , or banishment , they stand , And wait their doom from his disposing hand : But he , by secret shame's reproaches staid , Blush'd to command , what Rome would have Yet liberty , thus slighted and betray'd , One last effort with ...
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... death his daring hand repress'd , One spear transfix'd his back , and one his breast , And deadly met within his heaving chest . Doubtful awhile the flood was seen to stay , At length the steely shafts at once gave way ; The Beeting ...
... death his daring hand repress'd , One spear transfix'd his back , and one his breast , And deadly met within his heaving chest . Doubtful awhile the flood was seen to stay , At length the steely shafts at once gave way ; The Beeting ...
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Æneid Amycus Anacreon ancient Argo arms bear beauty behold beneath blood bold bosom breast Cæsar Chalciope charms chief Colchian crown'd cry'd dart death dread earth Euphemus ev'n eyes fair fam'd fame fatal fate fear fierce fire fix'd flame fled flies flood goddess gods golden grace Greek grief hand haste head heart Heaven heroes honour Idyllium Jason join'd Jove king labours land Latian light lov'd Lucan maid Medea mighty Mopsus Moschus mournful Muse night numbers nymph o'er Ovid pain Peleus Pentheus Pharsalia Phineus Phoebus Phrixus plain poet Pompey pow'r queen rage rais'd rise Roman Rome round sacred sails says seas shade shore sire skies slain soft song soul spoke spread stood streams swain sweet sword tears thee Theocritus Thessaly thou Thracian thro Tibullus Tiphys toil trembling vanquish'd Venus Virgil waves winds wound wretched youth
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Page 208 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 368 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 212 - Speak ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, .Angels; for ye behold Him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle His throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.
Page 211 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 208 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of •which this stream rises.
Page 432 - Thus cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that mischief bold : And double death did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and by gold betray'd.
Page 431 - No moon did yet her blunted horns renew ; Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky, Nor, poised, did on her own foundations lie ; Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown; But earth, and air, and water, were in one. Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, And water's dark abyss unnavigable. No certain form on any was imprest; All were confused, and each disturbed the rest : For hot and cold were in one body fixed ; And soft with hard, and light with heavy, mixed.
Page 479 - I see the right, and I approve it too ; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Page 359 - Two cities radiant on the shield appear, The image one of peace, and one of war, Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed...
Page 432 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...