Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy |
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Page 19
... purfu'd , and meant a Prey To lawless Power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . C 2 Runny Mead , where that great Charter was firft fealed . When When in that remedy all hope was plac'd Which was Poems upon feveral Occafions . 19.
... purfu'd , and meant a Prey To lawless Power , here turn'd , and stood at bay . C 2 Runny Mead , where that great Charter was firft fealed . When When in that remedy all hope was plac'd Which was Poems upon feveral Occafions . 19.
Page 98
... Power Legislative . And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please Without fear of a Prison or Pursuivants Fees . Next , that we only may lye by Authority , But in that also you have got the Priority . Next , an old Cuftom , our Fathers ...
... Power Legislative . And firft , ' tis to speak whatever we please Without fear of a Prison or Pursuivants Fees . Next , that we only may lye by Authority , But in that also you have got the Priority . Next , an old Cuftom , our Fathers ...
Page 99
... power to change Age into Youth , Turn Non - fenfe to Senfe , and Falfhood to Truth , In brief , to make good whatsoever is faulty , This Art fome Poet , or the Devil has taught ye : And this our Property you have Invaded , And a ...
... power to change Age into Youth , Turn Non - fenfe to Senfe , and Falfhood to Truth , In brief , to make good whatsoever is faulty , This Art fome Poet , or the Devil has taught ye : And this our Property you have Invaded , And a ...
Page 155
... Power extends ; In that they imitate the Pow'r Divine , The Sun alike on Good and Bad doth shine ; And he that doth no Good , although no Ill , Does not the office of the Juft fulfil . Virtue doth Man to virtuous Actions fteer , Tis not ...
... Power extends ; In that they imitate the Pow'r Divine , The Sun alike on Good and Bad doth shine ; And he that doth no Good , although no Ill , Does not the office of the Juft fulfil . Virtue doth Man to virtuous Actions fteer , Tis not ...
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... Powers ingage In the fame Studies , the fame Course to hold ; Nor think our Reason for new Arts too old . Solon the Sage his Progress never ceas'd , But ftill his Learning with his Days increas'd ; And I with the fame greedinefs did ...
... Powers ingage In the fame Studies , the fame Course to hold ; Nor think our Reason for new Arts too old . Solon the Sage his Progress never ceas'd , But ftill his Learning with his Days increas'd ; And I with the fame greedinefs did ...
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Page 12 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 13 - But his proud head the airy mountain hides Among the clouds; his shoulders and his sides A shady mantle clothes; his curled brows Frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, While winds and storms his lofty forehead beat; The common fate of all that's high or great.
Page 86 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, •/ Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Page 9 - And thus to th' ages past he makes amends, Their charity destroys, their faith defends. Then did Religion in a lazy cell, In empty, airy contemplations, dwell; And like the block, unmoved lay: but ours, As much too active, like the stork devours. Is there no temperate region can be known Betwixt their frigid and our torrid zone?
Page 11 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and...
Page 10 - Cooper's Hill, My eye, descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays ; Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Page 3 - Where, with like haste, though several ways they run, Some to undo, and some to be undone ; While luxury and wealth, like war and peace, Are each the other's ruin and increase ; As rivers lost in seas some secret vein Thence reconveys, there to be lost again.
Page 14 - ... his curled brows frown on the gentle stream, which calmly flows, •while winds and storms his lofty forehead beat; the common fate of all that's high or great.
Page 17 - And, like a bold knight -errant, did proclaim Combat to all, and bore away the dame ; And taught the woods to echo to the stream His dreadful challenge and his clashing beam '. Yet faintly now declines the fatal strife, So much his love was dearer than his life.
Page 21 - Snows dissolv'd, oreflows th' adjoyning Plains, 350 The Husbandmen with high-rais'd banks secure Their greedy hopes, and this he can endure. But if with Bays and Dams they strive to force His channel to a new, or narrow course; No longer then within his banks he dwells...