The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... chiefly lie 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 .
... chiefly lie 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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... mind , And sadly think how little's left behind Of your important life , whose sudden date Would disinherit the ' unprovided state ; When we consider how unjust ' tis , you , Who ne'er of power more than the burthen knew , At once the ...
... mind , And sadly think how little's left behind Of your important life , whose sudden date Would disinherit the ' unprovided state ; When we consider how unjust ' tis , you , Who ne'er of power more than the burthen knew , At once the ...
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... ; he would journeys go Through raging heats , and take repose in snow . His soul was ne'er unbent from weighty care ; But active as some mind that turns a sphere . His way once chose , he forward thrust outright , 18 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
... ; he would journeys go Through raging heats , and take repose in snow . His soul was ne'er unbent from weighty care ; But active as some mind that turns a sphere . His way once chose , he forward thrust outright , 18 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
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... mind , Did , deluge - like , the natural forms deface , And brought forth unknown monsters in their place . Forbid it , God ! my master's spots should be , Were they not seen by all , disclosed by me ! But such he was ; and now to Ramah ...
... mind , Did , deluge - like , the natural forms deface , And brought forth unknown monsters in their place . Forbid it , God ! my master's spots should be , Were they not seen by all , disclosed by me ! But such he was ; and now to Ramah ...
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... , to give ; To do much good , his sole prerogative : And yet this general bounty of his mind , That with wide arms embraces all mankind , Such artful prudence does to each divide ; With different 22 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
... , to give ; To do much good , his sole prerogative : And yet this general bounty of his mind , That with wide arms embraces all mankind , Such artful prudence does to each divide ; With different 22 B. IV . DAVIDEIS .
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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.