The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... arm'd with bows , some with straight javelins , Rich swords and gilded quivers grace their side . ' Midst the fair troop David's tall brethren rode , And Joab , comely as a fancied god ; They entertain'd the ' attentive Moab lords With ...
... arm'd with bows , some with straight javelins , Rich swords and gilded quivers grace their side . ' Midst the fair troop David's tall brethren rode , And Joab , comely as a fancied god ; They entertain'd the ' attentive Moab lords With ...
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... arm'd with God's warrant , broke By justest force the ' unjustly - forced yoke ; All matchless persons , and thrice ... arms Philistian tyrants seized ; Heaven's magazines he open'd when he pleased : He rains and wind for auxiliaries ...
... arm'd with God's warrant , broke By justest force the ' unjustly - forced yoke ; All matchless persons , and thrice ... arms Philistian tyrants seized ; Heaven's magazines he open'd when he pleased : He rains and wind for auxiliaries ...
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... Arm'd as unfurnish'd haste could them provide ; But conduct , courage , anger , that supply'd . All night they march , and are at ... arms embraces all mankind , Such artful prudence does to each divide ; With different 22 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
... Arm'd as unfurnish'd haste could them provide ; But conduct , courage , anger , that supply'd . All night they march , and are at ... arms embraces all mankind , Such artful prudence does to each divide ; With different 22 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
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... arms away ; Scarce fled his soul from thence more swift than they . As when two kings of neighbour hives ( whom rage And thirst of empire in fierce wars engage , Whilst each lays claim to the ' garden as his own , And seeks to ' usurp ...
... arms away ; Scarce fled his soul from thence more swift than they . As when two kings of neighbour hives ( whom rage And thirst of empire in fierce wars engage , Whilst each lays claim to the ' garden as his own , And seeks to ' usurp ...
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... arm'd , and glittering host : If human strength might authorize a boast , Their threats had reason here : for ne'er did we Ourselves so weak , or foe so potent , see . Here we vast bodies of their foot espy , The rear out - reaches far ...
... arm'd , and glittering host : If human strength might authorize a boast , Their threats had reason here : for ne'er did we Ourselves so weak , or foe so potent , see . Here we vast bodies of their foot espy , The rear out - reaches far ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.