The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen7Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Beasts creep into their dens , and tremble there ; Trees , though no wind is stirring , shake with fear ; Silence and horrour fill the place around ; Echo itself dares scarce repeat the sound . Their fictions were often violent and ...
... Beasts creep into their dens , and tremble there ; Trees , though no wind is stirring , shake with fear ; Silence and horrour fill the place around ; Echo itself dares scarce repeat the sound . Their fictions were often violent and ...
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... beast her face descry , It had not done her such an injury . The night half wasted , Pyramus did come ; Who , seeing printed in the yielding sand The lion's paw , and by the fountain some Of Thisbe's garment , sorrow struck him dumb ...
... beast her face descry , It had not done her such an injury . The night half wasted , Pyramus did come ; Who , seeing printed in the yielding sand The lion's paw , and by the fountain some Of Thisbe's garment , sorrow struck him dumb ...
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... beast ! But , when she saw her Pyramus lie slain , Ah ! how perplex'd did her sad soul remain ! She tears her golden hair , and beats her breast , And every sign of raging grief exprest . She blames all - powerful Jove ; and strives to ...
... beast ! But , when she saw her Pyramus lie slain , Ah ! how perplex'd did her sad soul remain ! She tears her golden hair , and beats her breast , And every sign of raging grief exprest . She blames all - powerful Jove ; and strives to ...
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... beasts , henceforth afraid to drink of thee . What have I said ? my pious rage hath been Too hot , and acts , whilst it accuseth , sin . Thou'rt innocent , I know , still clear and bright , Fit whence so pure a soul should take its ...
... beasts , henceforth afraid to drink of thee . What have I said ? my pious rage hath been Too hot , and acts , whilst it accuseth , sin . Thou'rt innocent , I know , still clear and bright , Fit whence so pure a soul should take its ...
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... beasts too strove his auditors to be , Forgetting their old tyranny . The fearful hart next to the lion came , Nightingales , harmless Syrens of the air , And wolf was shepherd to the lamb . And Muses of the place , were there ; Who ...
... beasts too strove his auditors to be , Forgetting their old tyranny . The fearful hart next to the lion came , Nightingales , harmless Syrens of the air , And wolf was shepherd to the lamb . And Muses of the place , were there ; Who ...
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Adam Adam and Eve angels arms beasts behold blest blood bold bright call'd clouds Comus Cowley Dæmon Dagon dark death delight divine dost doth dreadful Earth eternal ev'n eyes fair fame fate father fear fire flame friends glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heart Heaven Hell honour hope Israel king labour less light live Lord Lucifer LUDLOW CASTLE Ludlow town Lycidas malè mighty Milton mind Moab Muse Nature never night numbers o'er Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace Philistines Pindar pleasure poem poets praise prince rage Rome round sacred Satan seem'd serpent sight song soul spake spirits stood sweet tears thee thence thine things thought throne thyself tree Twas Twill verse vex'd virtue Whilst wings wise wonder words youth
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Página 369 - So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may sec and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits
Página 478 - he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and, singing in their glory, move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more
Página 477 - For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : "Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Página 358 - or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor
Página 354 - the Almighty Power, Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid
Página 479 - in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land. And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye
Página 355 - How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan. talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in
Página 477 - praise," Phœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor In broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging .love
Página 480 - sound, Over some wide-waterM shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar : Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the
Página 508 - Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.