The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 20J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... field receiv'd their civil war . The sword is now the umpire to decide , And part what friendship knew not to divide . ' Twas hard , an empire of so vast a size Could not for two ambitious minds suffice ; The peopled earth , and wide ...
... field receiv'd their civil war . The sword is now the umpire to decide , And part what friendship knew not to divide . ' Twas hard , an empire of so vast a size Could not for two ambitious minds suffice ; The peopled earth , and wide ...
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... field ; A nobler labour now before thee lies , The hazard less , yet greater far the prize : A province that , and portion of the whole ; This the vast head that does mankind control . Success shall sure attend thee , boldly go And win ...
... field ; A nobler labour now before thee lies , The hazard less , yet greater far the prize : A province that , and portion of the whole ; This the vast head that does mankind control . Success shall sure attend thee , boldly go And win ...
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... fields ; Rude banks of earth the hasty soldier rears , And in the turfy wall forgets his fears : While , Rome , thy ... field ascends , And mischiefs mighty as his own portends . Near Anio's stream old Marius rears his head ; The hinds ...
... fields ; Rude banks of earth the hasty soldier rears , And in the turfy wall forgets his fears : While , Rome , thy ... field ascends , And mischiefs mighty as his own portends . Near Anio's stream old Marius rears his head ; The hinds ...
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... field , Proud Carthage in her ruins he beheld ; Amidst her ashes pleas'd he sat him down , And joy'd in the destruction of the town . The genius of the place , with mutual hate , Year'd its sad head , and smil'd at Marius ' fate ; Each ...
... field , Proud Carthage in her ruins he beheld ; Amidst her ashes pleas'd he sat him down , And joy'd in the destruction of the town . The genius of the place , with mutual hate , Year'd its sad head , and smil'd at Marius ' fate ; Each ...
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... fields a crimson deluge flows : The Tuscan river swells above his shores , And floating bodies to the land restores ... field ? Again , behold the circling woes return , Again the curse of civil wars we mourn ; Battles and blood , and ...
... fields a crimson deluge flows : The Tuscan river swells above his shores , And floating bodies to the land restores ... field ? Again , behold the circling woes return , Again the curse of civil wars we mourn ; Battles and blood , and ...
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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...