Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 1John Aikin Thomas Wardle, 1831 - 807 pagine |
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Pagina 36
... stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
... stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ...
Pagina 37
... Stand in his presence humble , and receive Strict laws impos'd , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forc'd Halleluiahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odors ...
... Stand in his presence humble , and receive Strict laws impos'd , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forc'd Halleluiahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odors ...
Pagina 39
... stand His rivals ; winning cheap the high repute , Which he through hazard huge must earn . they Dreaded not more the adventure , than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : But As when from mountain - tops the dusky ...
... stand His rivals ; winning cheap the high repute , Which he through hazard huge must earn . they Dreaded not more the adventure , than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : But As when from mountain - tops the dusky ...
Pagina 41
... stand front to front , Hovering a space , till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was ...
... stand front to front , Hovering a space , till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants , that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was ...
Pagina 42
... stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring ... stands to interpose his dart , Fearless to be o'ermatch'd by living might . But what owe I to his commands above Who ...
... stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring ... stands to interpose his dart , Fearless to be o'ermatch'd by living might . But what owe I to his commands above Who ...
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Adam Anacreon angels appear'd Arcite arm'd arms beast behold bliss bright call'd cherub cherubim clouds COMUS courser Dagon dark death deep delight divine dreadful Earth eternal ev'n evil eyes fair faith fame fate father fear fight fire fix'd flame flowers fruit glory gods grace ground hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell honor hope Israel join'd king light live Lord lov'd Lycidas lyre Messiah mighty mind mortal Muse night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain Palamon Paradise pass'd peace Philistines Pirithous plac'd pleas'd praise quire rais'd reign rest return'd rise Satan seem'd shade shalt sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits stood sweet taste Thebes thee thence Theseus thine things thou art thought throne thyself tree turn'd Twas vex'd virtue whence winds wings wonder
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Pagina 32 - on the plains of Heaven, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from
Pagina 18 - Elysian flowers, and hear Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give. Mirth, with thee I mean to live. ■ ' IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or
Pagina 148 - still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. But peaceful was the night. Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the Earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean. Who now hath quite forgot to rave,
Pagina 20 - Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide, Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, angel, now, and melt
Pagina 18 - rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong day-light fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets cat ; She was pinch'd, and
Pagina 20 - As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." О fountain Arethuse, and thou honor'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea ; 90
Pagina 258 - Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shad Though in a bare and rugged way. Through devious lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my wants beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile. With sudden greens and herbage crown
Pagina 42 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost Of good and evil much they argued then. Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and
Pagina 17 - Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of Darkness thin. And to the stack, or the barn-door Stoutly struts his dames before ; Oft listening how the hounds and hom Cheerly rouse the slumbering