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... peace For years to slumber , unawaked by care ! How fierce the transport ! how sublime the bliss ! How deep , how black , the horror and despair ! Zan . You said you would bear it like a man . Alon . I do . Am I not most distracted ...
... peace For years to slumber , unawaked by care ! How fierce the transport ! how sublime the bliss ! How deep , how black , the horror and despair ! Zan . You said you would bear it like a man . Alon . I do . Am I not most distracted ...
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... peace and war , and throw him which we please , As Jove his storm , or sunshine , on his creatures . Post . This Philip only , since Rome's glory rose , Preserves its grandeur to the name of king ; Like a bold star , that shews its ...
... peace and war , and throw him which we please , As Jove his storm , or sunshine , on his creatures . Post . This Philip only , since Rome's glory rose , Preserves its grandeur to the name of king ; Like a bold star , that shews its ...
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... Peace - making brother ! Wherefore bring you peace , But to prevent my glory from the field ? The peace , you bring , was meant as war to me . Dem . Perseus , be bold when danger's all your own : War now , were war with Philip more than ...
... Peace - making brother ! Wherefore bring you peace , But to prevent my glory from the field ? The peace , you bring , was meant as war to me . Dem . Perseus , be bold when danger's all your own : War now , were war with Philip more than ...
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... peace with Rome ? King . Rome calls me fiery : let them find me so . Ant . O , sir , forbear ! Too late you felt Rome's power . King . Yes , and that reason stings me more than ever , To curse , and hate , and hazard all against her ...
... peace with Rome ? King . Rome calls me fiery : let them find me so . Ant . O , sir , forbear ! Too late you felt Rome's power . King . Yes , and that reason stings me more than ever , To curse , and hate , and hazard all against her ...
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... peace . Of this informed , again iny genius , served me . Peri . You took occasion , from these few in arms , To charge a murderous assault on all ? Per . True , Pericles ; but mark my whole ad- dress : Against my brother swift I bar my ...
... peace . Of this informed , again iny genius , served me . Peri . You took occasion , from these few in arms , To charge a murderous assault on all ? Per . True , Pericles ; but mark my whole ad- dress : Against my brother swift I bar my ...
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Page 566 - I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight.
Page 570 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 564 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Page 563 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 569 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page 570 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Page 574 - Hours Thither all their bounties bring. There eternal Summer dwells, And west winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells.
Page 565 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 572 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Page 565 - And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength ! Shepherd, lead on.