The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... death , but is saved by the people . THOUGH state and kind discourse thus robbed the Of half her natural and more just delight , [ night Moab ( when temperance did still vigorous keep , And regal cares had used to moderate sleep ) Up ...
... death , but is saved by the people . THOUGH state and kind discourse thus robbed the Of half her natural and more just delight , [ night Moab ( when temperance did still vigorous keep , And regal cares had used to moderate sleep ) Up ...
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... In characters too fine for most men's eye , Graces and gifts divine ; -not painted bright With state to awe dull minds , and force to ' af- fright ; - Were ill obey'd whilst living , and at death Their B 2 B. IV . 9 DAVIDEIS .
... In characters too fine for most men's eye , Graces and gifts divine ; -not painted bright With state to awe dull minds , and force to ' af- fright ; - Were ill obey'd whilst living , and at death Their B 2 B. IV . 9 DAVIDEIS .
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... death Their rules and pattern vanish'd with their breath . The hungry rich all near them did devour ; Their judge was Appetite , and their law was Power . Not Want itself could luxury restrain ; For what that emptied , Rapine fill'd ...
... death Their rules and pattern vanish'd with their breath . The hungry rich all near them did devour ; Their judge was Appetite , and their law was Power . Not Want itself could luxury restrain ; For what that emptied , Rapine fill'd ...
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... Death itself to bear away The threaten'd life ; did glad and greedy stand At sight of mighty Ammon's lifted hand.- Our watchful Prince by bending saved the wound : But Death in other coin his reckoning found ; For , whilst the ...
... Death itself to bear away The threaten'd life ; did glad and greedy stand At sight of mighty Ammon's lifted hand.- Our watchful Prince by bending saved the wound : But Death in other coin his reckoning found ; For , whilst the ...
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... death demand ; But wiser Saul repeal'd their hasty doom ; Conquest abroad , with mercy crown'd at home ; Nor stain'd with civil slaughter that day's pride , Which foreign blood in nobler purple dyed . Again the crown the ' assembled ...
... death demand ; But wiser Saul repeal'd their hasty doom ; Conquest abroad , with mercy crown'd at home ; Nor stain'd with civil slaughter that day's pride , Which foreign blood in nobler purple dyed . Again the crown the ' assembled ...
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Abdon avarice beasts beauty bless'd blood bold bright Cicero Columella conquest courage court Cromwell crown cursed death delight discourse divine dost earth Edom envy Epicurus fair fate fear fortune friends garden Georgics give God's gods happy Heaven history of animals honour Horace human humble hundred Incitatus industry innocent Jabesh justice of peace kind king laws less liberty live lord Lucretius lust luxury mankind master methinks mighty mind Moab Nahash nation nature never noble noise numbers o'er Ovid person Pindar pity pleasure poet pounds pride princes professors proud rich sacred Sapere aude Saul Saul's Senecio servants sight slaves sleep thee things thou thought thousand three kingdoms tree troops Twas tyrant ultrà usurpation Varro Virg Virgil virtue whilst whole wicked wise wonder
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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.