The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... industry ; When all the proud and dreadful sea , And all his tributary streams , A constant tribute paid to thee ; [ Thames : When all the liquid world was one extended When plenty in each village did appear , And bounty was its steward ...
... industry ; When all the proud and dreadful sea , And all his tributary streams , A constant tribute paid to thee ; [ Thames : When all the liquid world was one extended When plenty in each village did appear , And bounty was its steward ...
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... industry gather together the dispersed and broken planks and pieces of it , and with no less wonderful art and felicity so rejoin them , as to make a new vessel more tight and beautiful than the old one , deserves , no doubt , to have ...
... industry gather together the dispersed and broken planks and pieces of it , and with no less wonderful art and felicity so rejoin them , as to make a new vessel more tight and beautiful than the old one , deserves , no doubt , to have ...
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... industry of mankind is not sufficient to raise up dikes and ramparts against it . In such a time it was as this , that not all the wisdom and power of the Roman senate , nor the wit and eloquence of Cicero , nor the courage and virtue ...
... industry of mankind is not sufficient to raise up dikes and ramparts against it . In such a time it was as this , that not all the wisdom and power of the Roman senate , nor the wit and eloquence of Cicero , nor the courage and virtue ...
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... than a crafty and malicious impostor . That these arts were helped by an indefatigable industry ( as you term it ) I am so far from doubting , that I intended to object that dili- us , gence , as the worst of his crimes 74 ON THE ...
... than a crafty and malicious impostor . That these arts were helped by an indefatigable industry ( as you term it ) I am so far from doubting , that I intended to object that dili- us , gence , as the worst of his crimes 74 ON THE ...
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... industry in ranging all night about the country , whilst the sheep , and perhaps the shepherd , and perhaps the very dogs too , are all asleep ! 6 6 The Chartreux wants the warning of a bell To call him to the duties of his cell ; There ...
... industry in ranging all night about the country , whilst the sheep , and perhaps the shepherd , and perhaps the very dogs too , are all asleep ! 6 6 The Chartreux wants the warning of a bell To call him to the duties of his cell ; There ...
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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.