The Cat-fight: A Mock Heroic Poem. Supported with Copious Extracts from Ancient and Modern Classic Authors ...1824 - 276 páginas |
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... honour of the great diplomatic and heroic characters , and great national days of the United States . Received - with what enthusiastic applause , need not here be mentioned ; as many to whom this will be pre- sented have witnessed ...
... honour of the great diplomatic and heroic characters , and great national days of the United States . Received - with what enthusiastic applause , need not here be mentioned ; as many to whom this will be pre- sented have witnessed ...
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... honour immense to his nation ; yet less so than the Poem that celebrated their acquisition . And from Claudian's Theomachy , the battle of the tremendous giants and dreadful gods , armed with light- ning and mountains , devastating the ...
... honour immense to his nation ; yet less so than the Poem that celebrated their acquisition . And from Claudian's Theomachy , the battle of the tremendous giants and dreadful gods , armed with light- ning and mountains , devastating the ...
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... honour : fate had ordained the utter annihilation of both ( by a singular process it must be con- fessed ) at the same moment , and even Jove was unable to decide which should be victorious . We may therefore with great propriety ...
... honour : fate had ordained the utter annihilation of both ( by a singular process it must be con- fessed ) at the same moment , and even Jove was unable to decide which should be victorious . We may therefore with great propriety ...
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... honour'd scars : And looking down , to see the hubbub strange , And hear the din : thus was the building left Ridiculous , and the work - Confusion named . [ 3 ] Here it will be observed , that not only the author's eye , but his ...
... honour'd scars : And looking down , to see the hubbub strange , And hear the din : thus was the building left Ridiculous , and the work - Confusion named . [ 3 ] Here it will be observed , that not only the author's eye , but his ...
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... Honoured with the title of First Consul of the French Re- public , Napoleon collected in haste some divisions of young conscripts , traversed the Alps amid snows and precipices , and darted with the rapidity of an eagle upon a ...
... Honoured with the title of First Consul of the French Re- public , Napoleon collected in haste some divisions of young conscripts , traversed the Alps amid snows and precipices , and darted with the rapidity of an eagle upon a ...
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Página 274 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Página 134 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry— but we all must die!
Página 162 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night, A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Página 88 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Página 83 - Yet soon he heal'd ; for Spirits, that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail Man In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air...
Página 82 - Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge : it met The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheer...
Página 90 - Among them he arriv'd ; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in their souls infix'd Plagues...
Página 132 - Now the departing prayer is read: He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. Before the passing-bell begun, The news through half the town has run. O, may we all for Death prepare! What has he left? And who's his heir?
Página 274 - In yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave.
Página 133 - Lady Suffolk, in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen. The queen, so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, " Is he gone ? 'tis time he should.