Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 1John Aikin |
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... tempest shall be hurl'd Each on his rock transfix'd , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapt in chains : There to converse with everlasting groans , Unrespited , unpitied , unrepriev ...
... tempest shall be hurl'd Each on his rock transfix'd , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapt in chains : There to converse with everlasting groans , Unrespited , unpitied , unrepriev ...
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... tempest : such applause was heard As Mammon ended , and his sentence pleas'd , Advising peace : for such another field They dreaded worse than Hell : so much the fear Of thunder and the sword of Michaël Wrought still within them , and ...
... tempest : such applause was heard As Mammon ended , and his sentence pleas'd , Advising peace : for such another field They dreaded worse than Hell : so much the fear Of thunder and the sword of Michaël Wrought still within them , and ...
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... tempest loud : Here walk'd the fiend at large in spacious field . As when a vulture on Imaus bred , Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds , Dislodging from a region scarce of prey , To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids , Of ...
... tempest loud : Here walk'd the fiend at large in spacious field . As when a vulture on Imaus bred , Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds , Dislodging from a region scarce of prey , To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids , Of ...
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... tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan , that no sight , Nor motion of swift thought , less could his shield , Such ruin intercept : ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstaid ; as if on Earth ...
... tempest fell On the proud crest of Satan , that no sight , Nor motion of swift thought , less could his shield , Such ruin intercept : ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstaid ; as if on Earth ...
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... Tempest the ocean : there leviathan , Hugest of living creatures , on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory sleeps or swims , And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in , and at his trunk spouts out , a sea . Meanwhile the tepid ...
... Tempest the ocean : there leviathan , Hugest of living creatures , on the deep Stretch'd like a promontory sleeps or swims , And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in , and at his trunk spouts out , a sea . Meanwhile the tepid ...
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Page 238 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 18 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till, With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast ; And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon...
Page 383 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 18 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 362 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 58 - Rising or falling, still advance His praise. His praise, ye winds that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune His praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes His praise.
Page 141 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Page 456 - Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests bend, ye harvests wave, to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round ; On Nature write...
Page 20 - Hearse where Lycid lies. For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding Seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 348 - Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...