The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... body amidst thousands stood , Like some fair pine o'erlooking all the ' ignobler wood . Of all our rural sports he was the pride ; So swift , so strong , so dexterous , none beside . Rest was his toil , labours his lust and game ; No ...
... body amidst thousands stood , Like some fair pine o'erlooking all the ' ignobler wood . Of all our rural sports he was the pride ; So swift , so strong , so dexterous , none beside . Rest was his toil , labours his lust and game ; No ...
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... bodies drawn : Saul did himself the first and strongest band , His son the next , Abner the third , command.- But pardon , Sir , if , naming Saul's great son , I stop with him awhile ere I go on.— " This is that Jonathan , the joy and ...
... bodies drawn : Saul did himself the first and strongest band , His son the next , Abner the third , command.- But pardon , Sir , if , naming Saul's great son , I stop with him awhile ere I go on.— " This is that Jonathan , the joy and ...
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... body must confess , The architect , no doubt , could be no less . From Saul his growth and manly strength he took , Chastised by bright Ahinoam's gentler look ; Not bright Ahinoam , beauty's loudest name ( Till she to ' her children ...
... body must confess , The architect , no doubt , could be no less . From Saul his growth and manly strength he took , Chastised by bright Ahinoam's gentler look ; Not bright Ahinoam , beauty's loudest name ( Till she to ' her children ...
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... bodies of their foot espy , The rear out - reaches far the ' extended eye ; Like fields of corn their armed squadrons stand ; As thick and numberless they hide the land . Here with sharp neighs the warlike horses sound , And with proud ...
... bodies of their foot espy , The rear out - reaches far the ' extended eye ; Like fields of corn their armed squadrons stand ; As thick and numberless they hide the land . Here with sharp neighs the warlike horses sound , And with proud ...
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... body , or out of the body , like St. Paul , I know not ) , and found myself on the top of that famous hill in the island Mona , which has the prospect of three great , and not - long - since most happy , kingdoms . As soon as ever I ...
... body , or out of the body , like St. Paul , I know not ) , and found myself on the top of that famous hill in the island Mona , which has the prospect of three great , and not - long - since most happy , kingdoms . As soon as ever I ...
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Abdon avarice beasts beauty bless'd blood bold bright burning-glass canst Cicero Columella command courage court Cromwell crown cursed death deceive delight Democritus Demosthenes divine dost earth envy Epicurus fair fate fear fortune friends garden Georgics give glory God's happy Heaven honour Horace human humble hundred Incitatus innocent Jabesh kind king less liberty live lord Lucretius lust luxury malè mankind master methinks mighty mind Moab Nahash nation nature never noble noise numbers o'er Ovid person Pindaric pity pleasure poet pounds princes professors proud Quintilian rich sacred Sapere aude Saul Saul's Seneca servants sight slave sleep solitude thee things thou thought thousand three kingdoms THYESTE tree troops truth Twas tyrant ultrà usurpation vanity Varro Virg Virgil virtue whilst whole wicked wise wonder
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Seite 178 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 165 - 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 186 - 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 182 - Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would not fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Seite 116 - Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
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 187 - 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.
Seite 184 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this), and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme, and dance of the numbers; so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.