The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... shining out in the most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that language of the gods to men . His expression is like the colouring of some great masters , which discovers ...
... shining out in the most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that language of the gods to men . His expression is like the colouring of some great masters , which discovers ...
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... shining throne ; Black choler fill'd his breast that boil'd with ire , And from his eye - balls flash'd the living fire . Augur accurst ! denouncing mischief still , Prophet of plagues , for ever boding ill ! Still must that tongue some ...
... shining throne ; Black choler fill'd his breast that boil'd with ire , And from his eye - balls flash'd the living fire . Augur accurst ! denouncing mischief still , Prophet of plagues , for ever boding ill ! Still must that tongue some ...
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... shining court ascend , Urge all the ties to former service ow'd , And sue for vengeance to the thundering god . Oft hast thou triumph'd in the glorious boast , That thou stood'st forth of all th ' ethereal host , When bold rebellion ...
... shining court ascend , Urge all the ties to former service ow'd , And sue for vengeance to the thundering god . Oft hast thou triumph'd in the glorious boast , That thou stood'st forth of all th ' ethereal host , When bold rebellion ...
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... shining monuments of Vulcan's art : Jove on his couch reclin'd his awful head , And Juno slumber'd on the golden bed . THE ILIAD . BOOK II . ARGUMENT . THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY , AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES . ships . They are detained by ...
... shining monuments of Vulcan's art : Jove on his couch reclin'd his awful head , And Juno slumber'd on the golden bed . THE ILIAD . BOOK II . ARGUMENT . THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY , AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES . ships . They are detained by ...
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... shining soars , and claps her wings above . Nine sacred heralds now , proclaiming loud The monarch's will , suspend the listening crowd . • 22 While to his neighbours each express'd his thought. Th ' embroider'd sandals on his feet were ...
... shining soars , and claps her wings above . Nine sacred heralds now , proclaiming loud The monarch's will , suspend the listening crowd . • 22 While to his neighbours each express'd his thought. Th ' embroider'd sandals on his feet were ...
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Page 388 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
Page 369 - O goddess-born ! escape by timely flight, The flames and horrors of this fatal night. The foes already have possess'd the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty and to fame. If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone, Now Troy to thee commends her future state, And gives her gods companions of thy fate : From their assistance happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shalt...
Page 248 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.
Page 52 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground...
Page 86 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Page 315 - The fiery courser, when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets, and the shouts of war, Pricks up his ears ; and, trembling with delight, Shifts place, and paws, and hopes the promised fight.
Page 402 - Obscure in shades, and with a doubtful view, (Doubtful as he who sees, through dusky night, Or thinks he sees the moon's uncertain light) With tears he first approach'd the sullen shade ; And as his love inspir'd him, thus he said : " Unhappy queen ! then is the common breath Of rumour true, in your reported death, And I. alas ! the cause ? — By heaven, I vow, And all the powers that rule the realms below, Unwilling I forsook your friendly state.
Page 450 - She said, and, sailing on the winged wind, Left the sad nymph suspended in her mind. And now in pomp the peaceful kings appear : Four steeds the chariot of Latinus bear; Twelve golden beams around his temples play, To mark his lineage from the God of Day. Two snowy coursers Turnus...
Page 369 - Who thought us Grecians newly come to land. 'From whence,' said he, 'my friends, this long delay? You loiter, while the spoils are borne away: Our ships are laden with the Trojan store; And you, like truants, come too late ashore.
Page 436 - O mortals, blind in fate, who never know To bear high fortune, or endure the low! The time shall come, when Turnus, but in vain, Shall wish untouch'd the trophies of the slain; Shall wish the fatal belt were far away, And curse the dire remembrance of the day. The sad Arcadians, from th...