The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... means ; the pride of heart and scorn Of the ' humble yoke under low Judges borne . They saw the state and glittering pompwhich bless'd In vulgar sense the sceptres of the East ; [ obey They saw not power's true source , and scorn'd to ...
... means ; the pride of heart and scorn Of the ' humble yoke under low Judges borne . They saw the state and glittering pompwhich bless'd In vulgar sense the sceptres of the East ; [ obey They saw not power's true source , and scorn'd to ...
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... mean , long to be there ; At the same instant from glad Jabesh ' town The hasty troops march loud and cheerful down ; Some few at first with vain resistance fall , The rest is slaughter and vast conquest all . The fate by which our host ...
... mean , long to be there ; At the same instant from glad Jabesh ' town The hasty troops march loud and cheerful down ; Some few at first with vain resistance fall , The rest is slaughter and vast conquest all . The fate by which our host ...
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... means be aim'd at me ! But sure , I think , God leads ; nor could you bring So high thoughts from a less exalted spring . Bright signs through all your words and looks are spread , A rising victory dawns around your head . ' With such ...
... means be aim'd at me ! But sure , I think , God leads ; nor could you bring So high thoughts from a less exalted spring . Bright signs through all your words and looks are spread , A rising victory dawns around your head . ' With such ...
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... means could be omitted here ) the vast multitude of spectators made up , as it uses to do , no small part of the spectacle itself . But yet A Discourse, by Way of Vision, concerning the Govern- ment of Oliver Cromwell.
... means could be omitted here ) the vast multitude of spectators made up , as it uses to do , no small part of the spectacle itself . But yet A Discourse, by Way of Vision, concerning the Govern- ment of Oliver Cromwell.
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... mean birth , no fortune , no eminent quali- ties of body , which have sometimes , or of mind , which have often , raised men to the highest digni- ties , should have the courage to attempt , and the happiness to succeed in , so ...
... mean birth , no fortune , no eminent quali- ties of body , which have sometimes , or of mind , which have often , raised men to the highest digni- ties , should have the courage to attempt , and the happiness to succeed in , so ...
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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.