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... breasts with heavenly souls Inspired , as man , who destiny controls ; But , with the changeful temper of the skies , As rains condense , and sunshine rarefies , So turn the species in their altered minds , Composed by calms , and ...
... breasts with heavenly souls Inspired , as man , who destiny controls ; But , with the changeful temper of the skies , As rains condense , and sunshine rarefies , So turn the species in their altered minds , Composed by calms , and ...
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... breast : He looks , and languishes , and leaves his rest , Forsakes his food , and , pining for the lass , Is joyless of the grove , and spurns the growing grass . The soft seducer , with enticing looks , The bellowing rivals to the ...
... breast : He looks , and languishes , and leaves his rest , Forsakes his food , and , pining for the lass , Is joyless of the grove , and spurns the growing grass . The soft seducer , with enticing looks , The bellowing rivals to the ...
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... breast to breast ; So fixed on fame , unknowing how to fly , And obstinately bent to win or die , That long the doubtful combat they maintain , Till one prevails - for one can only reign . Yet all these dreadful deeds , this deadly fray ...
... breast to breast ; So fixed on fame , unknowing how to fly , And obstinately bent to win or die , That long the doubtful combat they maintain , Till one prevails - for one can only reign . Yet all these dreadful deeds , this deadly fray ...
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... breast . ' Tis Aristæus , ' tis thy darling son , } Who to his careless mother makes his moan . Near his paternal stream he sadly stands , With downcast eyes , wet cheeks , and folded hands , Upbraiding heaven from whence his lineage ...
... breast . ' Tis Aristæus , ' tis thy darling son , } Who to his careless mother makes his moan . Near his paternal stream he sadly stands , With downcast eyes , wet cheeks , and folded hands , Upbraiding heaven from whence his lineage ...
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... breasts , they rend their hair , And rich embroidered vests for presents bear ; But the stern goddess stands unmoved with ... breast , To see the figure of his lifeless friend , And his old sire his helpless hands extend . Himself he saw ...
... breasts , they rend their hair , And rich embroidered vests for presents bear ; But the stern goddess stands unmoved with ... breast , To see the figure of his lifeless friend , And his old sire his helpless hands extend . Himself he saw ...
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Page 421 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise: But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, « To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page 69 - Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate!
Page 170 - But when she had made all these advances, it was still in his power to have refused them. After the intrigue of the cave, call it marriage, or enjoyment only, he was no longer free to take or leave ; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant, if he would be grateful.
Page 77 - Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round ; His chine is double ; starting with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow; He bears his rider headlong on the foe.
Page 107 - That bees have portions of ethereal thought — Endued with particles of heavenly fires ; For God the whole created mass inspires. Through heaven, and earth, and ocean's depth, he throws His influence round, and kindles as he goes. Hence flocks, and herds, and men, and beasts, and fowls, With breath are...
Page 399 - Just in the gate, and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, (Forms terrible to view) their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses, and unfolds her snakes.
Page 41 - The father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved in tempests, and a night of clouds; And, from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about.
Page 24 - After this particular account of the beauties in the Georgics, I should, in the next place, endeavour to point out its imperfections, if it has any. But, though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the rest, I shall not presume to name them, as rather suspecting my own judgement, than I can believe a fault to be in that poem, which lay so long under Virgil's correction, and had his last hand put to it.
Page 137 - I submit my opinion to your judgment, who are better qualified than any man I know to decide this controversy. You come, my lord, instructed in the cause, and needed not that I should open it. Your "Essay of Poetry...
Page 351 - tis doubly to be dead! Yet ev'n this death with pleasure I receive: On any terms, 'tis better than to live. These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view; These boding omens his base flight pursue!