Bell's Edition, Volumes 25-26J. Bell, 1800 |
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... honour's smoaks at once flatter and starve : Poorly enrich'd with great men's words or looks , Nor so write my name in thy loving books , As those idolatrous flatterers , which still Their prince's stiles which many names fulfill ...
... honour's smoaks at once flatter and starve : Poorly enrich'd with great men's words or looks , Nor so write my name in thy loving books , As those idolatrous flatterers , which still Their prince's stiles which many names fulfill ...
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... go , and take my heart from hence , Which now is grown too great and good for me , Honours oppress weak spirits , and our sense b Strong objects dull ; the more , the less we see.c When you are gone , and Reason gone with you 20 ELEGIES .
... go , and take my heart from hence , Which now is grown too great and good for me , Honours oppress weak spirits , and our sense b Strong objects dull ; the more , the less we see.c When you are gone , and Reason gone with you 20 ELEGIES .
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... honour , tears , and pains , were spent . 20 But , dearest heart ! and , dearer image ! stay ; Alas ! true joys at best are Dreams enough ; Tho ' you stay here you pass too fast away , For ever at first life's taper is a snuff . Fill'd ...
... honour , tears , and pains , were spent . 20 But , dearest heart ! and , dearer image ! stay ; Alas ! true joys at best are Dreams enough ; Tho ' you stay here you pass too fast away , For ever at first life's taper is a snuff . Fill'd ...
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... Honour thy Laura , and adorn thy lays ; And since thy Muse her head in heaven shrouds , Oh ! let her never stoop below the clouds ; And if those glorious sainted souls may know Or what we do or what we sing below , 30 ال こん 40 Those ...
... Honour thy Laura , and adorn thy lays ; And since thy Muse her head in heaven shrouds , Oh ! let her never stoop below the clouds ; And if those glorious sainted souls may know Or what we do or what we sing below , 30 ال こん 40 Those ...
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... honours it too much that thinks it nought . Think then , my Soul ! that death is but a groom Which brings a taper to the outward room , Whence thou spy'st first a little glimmering light , And after brings it nearer to thy sight ; For ...
... honours it too much that thinks it nought . Think then , my Soul ! that death is but a groom Which brings a taper to the outward room , Whence thou spy'st first a little glimmering light , And after brings it nearer to thy sight ; For ...
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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.