The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, HamiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... OVID . I should not have printed the two Latin odes , if they had not given me an opportunity of publishing the translations along with them , which I believe will be thought the best verses in the collection : they are finished in so ...
... OVID . I should not have printed the two Latin odes , if they had not given me an opportunity of publishing the translations along with them , which I believe will be thought the best verses in the collection : they are finished in so ...
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... Ovid's sweet nectareal bowl . If you , Calliope , should deign Aloud to sound a martial strain , Your vot'ry straight in rapture hears The noble music of the spheres : Mounted on wings , see ! see ! I fly With Mantua's swan , and range ...
... Ovid's sweet nectareal bowl . If you , Calliope , should deign Aloud to sound a martial strain , Your vot'ry straight in rapture hears The noble music of the spheres : Mounted on wings , see ! see ! I fly With Mantua's swan , and range ...
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... ) — Full on my ear , and shakes my inmost soul . 5 Rape of the Lock . 6 Ovid's Sappho to Phaon . And Eloise to Abelard . 7 Temple of Fame . 8 Translation of Homer . Three roses of an eastern hue , Sweet - swelling 28 THOMPSON'S POEMS .
... ) — Full on my ear , and shakes my inmost soul . 5 Rape of the Lock . 6 Ovid's Sappho to Phaon . And Eloise to Abelard . 7 Temple of Fame . 8 Translation of Homer . Three roses of an eastern hue , Sweet - swelling 28 THOMPSON'S POEMS .
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... Ovid . Metamorph . Lib . 3 . 3 Beloved and turned into a flower by Apollo . See the story in Ovid . Met . Lib . 10. There is likewise a curious dialogue in Lucian betwixt Mercury and Apollo on this subject . Servius in his Notes on ...
... Ovid . Metamorph . Lib . 3 . 3 Beloved and turned into a flower by Apollo . See the story in Ovid . Met . Lib . 10. There is likewise a curious dialogue in Lucian betwixt Mercury and Apollo on this subject . Servius in his Notes on ...
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... Ovid . Fast . 1. 5. & c . They imagined the Lemures ( in English , fairies ) to be like ghosts of deceased persons : but our traditional accounts are very different in respect to the nature of fairies . Shakespear's Midsummer's Night's ...
... Ovid . Fast . 1. 5. & c . They imagined the Lemures ( in English , fairies ) to be like ghosts of deceased persons : but our traditional accounts are very different in respect to the nature of fairies . Shakespear's Midsummer's Night's ...
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Página 138 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 139 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 46 - Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Página 138 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 138 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 137 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 138 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Página 53 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.
Página 138 - Th" applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 216 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.