The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Band 631790 |
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... wild paffions blind , Holds up himself , a mirror for mankind ; An equal eye on our own hearts we turn , Where frailties lurk , where fond affections burn : And , confcious , Nature is in all the fame , We mourn the guilty , while the ...
... wild paffions blind , Holds up himself , a mirror for mankind ; An equal eye on our own hearts we turn , Where frailties lurk , where fond affections burn : And , confcious , Nature is in all the fame , We mourn the guilty , while the ...
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... wild and woody maze , That clouds the vale with umbrage deep , Impendent from the neighbouring steep , Wilt find betimes a calm retreat , Where breathing coolness has her feat . There , plung'd amid the shadows brown , Imagination lays ...
... wild and woody maze , That clouds the vale with umbrage deep , Impendent from the neighbouring steep , Wilt find betimes a calm retreat , Where breathing coolness has her feat . There , plung'd amid the shadows brown , Imagination lays ...
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... wild his mattin hymn . While beafts of chace , by secret inftinct mov'd , Scud o'er the lawns , and , plunging int night , In brake , or cavern , flumber out the day . Invited by the chearful morn abroad , See , from his humble roof ...
... wild his mattin hymn . While beafts of chace , by secret inftinct mov'd , Scud o'er the lawns , and , plunging int night , In brake , or cavern , flumber out the day . Invited by the chearful morn abroad , See , from his humble roof ...
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... wild , that deep embowering rife , Maze above maze , through all its shelter'd height ; From hence , th ' aërial concave without cloud , Translucent , and in pureft azure drest ; The boundless scene beneath , hill , dale , and plain ...
... wild , that deep embowering rife , Maze above maze , through all its shelter'd height ; From hence , th ' aërial concave without cloud , Translucent , and in pureft azure drest ; The boundless scene beneath , hill , dale , and plain ...
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... Wild world of waters , diftant clouds afcend In vapoury confluence , deepening cloud on cloud : Then rolling dufk along to eaft and north , As the blaft bears them on his humid wing , Draw total night and tempeft o'er the noon ! Lo ...
... Wild world of waters , diftant clouds afcend In vapoury confluence , deepening cloud on cloud : Then rolling dufk along to eaft and north , As the blaft bears them on his humid wing , Draw total night and tempeft o'er the noon ! Lo ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afcending amid Amyntor arts aſk beauty behold bleft bloom bluſhing bofom boundleſs breaſt charms cloud courſe croud delight diftant divine earth eternal facred fafe fair fame fancy fate fcenes fecret fenfe fhade fhall fhore fighs filence firft firſt fix'd flame fmiles foft fome fong fons forrow foul ftill ftorm ftream fublime fuch funk fupreme grace hand heart heaven himſelf honour hour human juft laft laſt lefs light LXIII lyre meaſure Megacles mind moft mortal moſt Mufe muſt nature nature's night o'er paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure pomp praife praiſe rais'd reafon ridiculous rife round ſcene ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhould ſky ſmile ſpace ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſpring ſtate ſteps ſtill taſk tears thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand toil truth univerfal uſe virtue voice weft whofe whoſe wiſdom youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 229 - When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Seite 282 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Seite 327 - ... wherefore, with a rash impetuous aim, Seek ye those flowery joys with which the hand Of lavish Fancy paints each flattering scene Where Beauty seems to dwell, nor once inquire Where is the sanction of eternal truth, Or where the seal of undeceitful good, To save your search from folly ! Wanting these, Lo ! Beauty withers in your void embrace, And with the glittering of an idiot's toy Did Fancy mock your vows.
Seite 221 - Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
Seite 218 - Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?
Seite 225 - Illumes the headstrong impulse of desire, And sanctifies his choice. The generous glebe Whose bosom smiles with verdure, the clear tract...
Seite 215 - The active powers of man ! with wise intent The hand of Nature on peculiar minds Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil.
Seite 216 - Enamour'd ; they partake the eternal joy. For as old Memnon's image long renown'd By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting, sounded through the warbling air. Unbidden strains ; even so did nature's hand...
Seite 30 - But tofles thro' the midnight made, Of death, of life, alike afraid ; For ever fled to fhady cell, Where Temperance, where the Mufes dwell ; Thou oft art feen, at early dawn, Slow-pacing o'er the breezy lawn : Or on the brow...
Seite 29 - The ftorm of fate, the cloud of years, Till Nature with thy parting light, Repofes late in Death's calm night : Fled from the trophy'd roofs of ftate, Abodes of fplendid pain, and hate ; Fled from the couch, where, in fweet fleep, Hot Riot would his anguifh fteep. But tofles thro...