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... . Perhaps the following articles may not be either unentertaining or uninstructive , as they bring into one view many obscure poetical authors of this æra . Twenty - nine Epigrams , addressed to Cotemporary Poets , 10.
... . Perhaps the following articles may not be either unentertaining or uninstructive , as they bring into one view many obscure poetical authors of this æra . Twenty - nine Epigrams , addressed to Cotemporary Poets , 10.
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... bring His Pegasus to the Castalian spring ; Boast he a race o'er the Pharsalian plain , Or happy Tempe valley dares maintain ; Brag at one leap upon the double cliff ( Were it as high as monstrous Teneriff ) Of far renown'd Parnassus he ...
... bring His Pegasus to the Castalian spring ; Boast he a race o'er the Pharsalian plain , Or happy Tempe valley dares maintain ; Brag at one leap upon the double cliff ( Were it as high as monstrous Teneriff ) Of far renown'd Parnassus he ...
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... bring a cure to all . So lately Withers ( whom your Muse doth far Transcend ) did strike at things irregular . ( But all in one t ' include ) So our prime wit , In the too few short Satires he hath writ ) Renowned Donne hath so rebuk'd ...
... bring a cure to all . So lately Withers ( whom your Muse doth far Transcend ) did strike at things irregular . ( But all in one t ' include ) So our prime wit , In the too few short Satires he hath writ ) Renowned Donne hath so rebuk'd ...
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... leave her groveling for to grasp her way Here , in this transitory bed of clay , Till Faith steps in ; and , in the stead of wings , Unto Belief a lofty pillar brings , Whereby we should be raised up ; and thus Ascend 96.
... leave her groveling for to grasp her way Here , in this transitory bed of clay , Till Faith steps in ; and , in the stead of wings , Unto Belief a lofty pillar brings , Whereby we should be raised up ; and thus Ascend 96.
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... His year's all Spring , and hath no Fall . To N. B. an Angler . Thou , that dost cast into the silver brook Thy worm - fed hook , The greedier fishes so to cheat , Seeking for meat ; xec ems be Remember that Time's wheel will bring Thy 102.
... His year's all Spring , and hath no Fall . To N. B. an Angler . Thou , that dost cast into the silver brook Thy worm - fed hook , The greedier fishes so to cheat , Seeking for meat ; xec ems be Remember that Time's wheel will bring Thy 102.
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Página 121 - And with intestine broils the world destroy, And quite confound nature's sweet harmony. Well therefore by the gods decreed it is We human creatures should enjoy that bliss. One is no number; maids are nothing then Without the sweet society of men.
Página 123 - Upon a rock, and underneath a hill, Far from the town, (where all is whist and still, Save that the sea, playing on yellow sand, Sends forth a rattling murmur to the land, Whose sound allures the golden Morpheus In silence of the night to visit us,) My turret stands ; and there, God knows, I play With Venus' swans and sparrows all the day.
Página 118 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-ruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes.
Página 313 - Her burning faculties, and with the wings Of thy unsphered flame visit'st the springs Of spirits immortal ! Now (as swift as Time Doth follow Motion) find th' eternal clime Of his free soul, whose living subject stood Up to the chin in the Pierian flood, And drunk to me half this...
Página 121 - Nor is't of earth or mould celestial, Or capable of any form at all. Of that which hath no being do not boast; Things that are not at all are never lost.
Página 169 - Even as a bird, which in our hands we wring, Forth plungeth and oft flutters with her wing, She trembling strove. This strife of hers (like that Which made the world) another world begat Of unknown joy. Treason was in her thought, And cunningly to yield herself she sought. Seeming not won, yet won she was at length. In such wars women use but half their strength. Leander now, like Theban Hercules, Entered the orchard of th' Hesperides; Whose fruit none rightly can describe but he That pulls or shakes...
Página 114 - And oftentimes into her bosom flew, About her naked neck his bare arms threw And laid his childish head upon her breast, And, with still panting rock, there took his rest. So lovely fair was Hero, Venus...
Página 311 - The goddess Ceremony, with a crown Of all the stars; and Heaven with her descended: Her flaming hair to her bright feet extended, By which hung all the bench of deities; And in a chain, compact of ears and eyes, She led Religion : all her body was Clear and transparent as the purest glass, . For she was all presented to the sense: Devotion, Order, State, and Reverence, Her shadows were; Society, Memory; All which her sight made live, her absence die.
Página 117 - She proudly sits) more over-rules the flood Than she the hearts of those that near her stood Even as when gaudy nymphs pursue the chase, Wretched Ixion's shaggy-footed race...
Página 170 - Again, she knew not how to frame her look, Or speak to him, who in a moment took That which so long, so charily she kept; And fain by stealth away she would have crept, And to some corner secretly have gone, Leaving Leander in the bed alone.