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Page xxix
... look upon it as a paradox , to affirm , that the fame causes which produced this advantage to Pastoral Poetry , con- tributed in an equal degree to make the firft Lyric Poems the most vague , uncertain , and difproportioned ftandards ...
... look upon it as a paradox , to affirm , that the fame causes which produced this advantage to Pastoral Poetry , con- tributed in an equal degree to make the firft Lyric Poems the most vague , uncertain , and difproportioned ftandards ...
Page xlvi
... fome verfes fo fimilar to thefe , that we may look on them as vouchers for their antiquity : Οι περι φύλλων γενεη , τοιη δε και ανδρων , & c . Ιλιαδ . ζ . Like leaves on trees the race of men is found Like xlvi AN ESSAY ON THE LYRIC.
... fome verfes fo fimilar to thefe , that we may look on them as vouchers for their antiquity : Οι περι φύλλων γενεη , τοιη δε και ανδρων , & c . Ιλιαδ . ζ . Like leaves on trees the race of men is found Like xlvi AN ESSAY ON THE LYRIC.
Page xcvi
... look for those marks of wildness and incoherence , which dif- cover the extent of that faculty , I HAVE acknowledged , in a former part of this Effay , that the shorter Ode not only admits of bold and spirited tranfitions , but that ...
... look for those marks of wildness and incoherence , which dif- cover the extent of that faculty , I HAVE acknowledged , in a former part of this Effay , that the shorter Ode not only admits of bold and spirited tranfitions , but that ...
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... look ( amid the countless store ) We mark'd fome feature unobferv'd before ; As in the cheek with opening roses warm , Each piercing glance improves the growing charm . " THEN THEN fighing deep , diftracted at the view , " 2 16 THE DAY ...
... look ( amid the countless store ) We mark'd fome feature unobferv'd before ; As in the cheek with opening roses warm , Each piercing glance improves the growing charm . " THEN THEN fighing deep , diftracted at the view , " 2 16 THE DAY ...
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... looks fuperior o'er the wrecks below ; Burfts the broad field ! -in wild confufion spread Hills , cities , rocks , fall thund'ring in the shade ; He bows ! and tott'ring o'er the verging gloom , Marks the stupendous waste , and feeks ...
... looks fuperior o'er the wrecks below ; Burfts the broad field ! -in wild confufion spread Hills , cities , rocks , fall thund'ring in the shade ; He bows ! and tott'ring o'er the verging gloom , Marks the stupendous waste , and feeks ...
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Page xxxix - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page xi - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page cxxiii - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page c - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 39 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 101 - Nurs'd on the downy lap of ease, Fall prostrate at His throne : Ye princes, rulers, all adore ; Praise Him, ye kings, who makes your power An image of His own. Ye fair, by nature form'd to move, O praise th...
Page 98 - Join, ye loud spheres, the vocal choir ; Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire, The mighty chorus aid : Soon as grey ev'ning gilds the plain, Thou, moon, protract the melting strain.
Page xxxiii - Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glorioufly ; the horfe and his rider hath he thrown into the fea.
Page xxxiv - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, The floods stood upright as an heap, And the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page cvi - But wrapt in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure : Know we what fortune yet remains behind ? Know we how long the present shall endure ? WIST.