Bell's Edition, Volumes 25-26J. Bell, 1800 |
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... Hath all things whereby others beauteous be ; For tho ' her eyes be small her mouth is great ; Tho ' thei's be ivory , yet her teeth be jeat ; Though they be dim , yet she is light enough , And tho ' her harsh hair's foul , her skin is ...
... Hath all things whereby others beauteous be ; For tho ' her eyes be small her mouth is great ; Tho ' thei's be ivory , yet her teeth be jeat ; Though they be dim , yet she is light enough , And tho ' her harsh hair's foul , her skin is ...
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... hath yet the Anagrams of a good face . If we might put the letters but one way , In that lean dearth of words what could , we say ? When by the gamut some musicians make A perfect song , others will undertake , By the same gamut chang'd ...
... hath yet the Anagrams of a good face . If we might put the letters but one way , In that lean dearth of words what could , we say ? When by the gamut some musicians make A perfect song , others will undertake , By the same gamut chang'd ...
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... hath a plow - land casts all his seedscorn there , And yet allows his ground more corn should bear . Tho ' Danuby into the sea must flow , The sea receive the Rhine , Volga , and Po , By Nature , which gave it this liberty . Thou lov'st ...
... hath a plow - land casts all his seedscorn there , And yet allows his ground more corn should bear . Tho ' Danuby into the sea must flow , The sea receive the Rhine , Volga , and Po , By Nature , which gave it this liberty . Thou lov'st ...
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... hath oft ' sworn that he would remove The beauty's beauty , and food of our love , Hope of his goods , if I with thee were seen , Yet close and secret as our souls we've been .いい 10 A Tho ' thy immortal mother , which doth lie Still ...
... hath oft ' sworn that he would remove The beauty's beauty , and food of our love , Hope of his goods , if I with thee were seen , Yet close and secret as our souls we've been .いい 10 A Tho ' thy immortal mother , which doth lie Still ...
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... hath such grace . As I have seen in one Autumnal face . A Young beauties force our loves , and that's a raре ; о This doth but counsel , yet you cannot ' scapes If ' twere a shame to love , here were no shame Affections here take Rev ...
... hath such grace . As I have seen in one Autumnal face . A Young beauties force our loves , and that's a raре ; о This doth but counsel , yet you cannot ' scapes If ' twere a shame to love , here were no shame Affections here take Rev ...
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Æneas Androgeus angels arms beauty blood body breast Calchas Carthage cold ashes Cooper's Hill COUNTESS OF BEDFORD court dark dead death Dido Donne dost doth dwell Dymas earth ELEGY ev'n ev'ry eyes fair faith fall fate father fear fire flame force friends gave give gods gold gone grace grave grief grow hand hate hath heart heav'n honour hope Hugh Peters Hypanis immortal kings kiss leave less live lost lov'd man's mind Muse Nature never numbers pain plac'd pleasure poets pow'r praise Priam prince Pyrrhus rage rhyme Samnites seem'd sense shalt Sir John Denham soul stood Tarentum tears thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thou know'st thoughts thro thyself triumph Trojan Troy Twas twixt unto us'd verse virtue whilst wise words wound youth
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Page 189 - No crime so bold but would be understood A real, or at least, a seeming good. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is a slave to fame. Thus he the church at once protects and spoils ; But princes' swords are sharper than their styles : And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends.
Page 191 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Page 190 - Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance, And rather in the dark to grope our way Than, led by a false guide, to err by day...
Page 173 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 193 - But his proud head the airy mountain hides among the clouds ; his shoulders and his sides a shady mantle clothes ; his curled brows frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, while winds and storms his lofty forehead beat; the common fate of all that's high or great.
Page 190 - My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity ; Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold * : His genuine and less guilty...
Page 185 - Sure there are poets which did never dream upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream • of Helicon ; we therefore may suppose those made not poets, but the poets those...
Page 173 - is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to b« poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 173 - The lines are in themselves not perfect ; for most of the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations, by material images, into that language they cannot be translated.
Page xi - But whither am I stray'd ? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise : Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built, Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.