Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and TranslationsJ. Tonson, 1714 - 318 pages |
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... foft Show'rs ; and fweet the Coming - on Of grateful Ev'ning mild ; the filent Night , With this her folemn Bird ; and this fair Moon ; And these the Gems of Heav'n , her starry Train : But neither Breath of Morn , when the afcends With ...
... foft Show'rs ; and fweet the Coming - on Of grateful Ev'ning mild ; the filent Night , With this her folemn Bird ; and this fair Moon ; And these the Gems of Heav'n , her starry Train : But neither Breath of Morn , when the afcends With ...
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... foft Favonius fann'd , Diffus'd her Riches with a wanton Hand ; From new - born Flow'rs luxurious Odours fly , And heavenly Landskips meet his ravifh'd Eye ; The twining Branches weave him shady Bow'rs , And Honey Dews fall in delicious ...
... foft Favonius fann'd , Diffus'd her Riches with a wanton Hand ; From new - born Flow'rs luxurious Odours fly , And heavenly Landskips meet his ravifh'd Eye ; The twining Branches weave him shady Bow'rs , And Honey Dews fall in delicious ...
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... foft Recefs , and a cool Summer Shade : The Hedge was fet fo thick , no foreign Eye The Perfons plac'd within it could efpy ; But all that pafs'd without with Eafe was feen , As if nor Fence nor Tree was plac'd between . ' Twas border'd ...
... foft Recefs , and a cool Summer Shade : The Hedge was fet fo thick , no foreign Eye The Perfons plac'd within it could efpy ; But all that pafs'd without with Eafe was feen , As if nor Fence nor Tree was plac'd between . ' Twas border'd ...
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... foft Recorders ; fuch as rais'd To Height of nobleft Temper Heroes old Arming to Battel ; and inftead of Rage Delib'rate Valour breath'd , firm and unmov'd With Dread of Death to Flight or foul Retreat ; Nor wanting Pow'r to mitigate ...
... foft Recorders ; fuch as rais'd To Height of nobleft Temper Heroes old Arming to Battel ; and inftead of Rage Delib'rate Valour breath'd , firm and unmov'd With Dread of Death to Flight or foul Retreat ; Nor wanting Pow'r to mitigate ...
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... foft Whispers thro ' th'Affembly went ; With filent Wonder then they watch'd th'Event , All hufh'd Dryd . Chauc . Pal . & Arc . Then thus to both reply'd th'Imperial God , Who fhakes Heav'ns Axles with his awful Nod : When he begins ...
... foft Whispers thro ' th'Affembly went ; With filent Wonder then they watch'd th'Event , All hufh'd Dryd . Chauc . Pal . & Arc . Then thus to both reply'd th'Imperial God , Who fhakes Heav'ns Axles with his awful Nod : When he begins ...
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Page 237 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 236 - Hell within him; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Page 237 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 149 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Page 235 - O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds 130 Fearless, endangered heaven's perpetual king; And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate...
Page 358 - Clusters in the Sun, Others to tread the liquid Harvest join, The groaning Presses foam with Floods of Wine. Here are the Vines in early Flow'r descry'd, Here Grapes discolour'd on the sunny Side, And there in Autumn's richest Purple dy'd.
Page 334 - Oft, as in Airy Rings they skim the Heath, The clam'rous Plovers feel the Leaden Death: Oft as the mounting Larks their Notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little Lives in Air.
Page 294 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
Page 10 - O'er craggy mountains, and the flowery plain ; Through brakes and thickets forc'd his way, and flew Through many a ring, where once he did pursue. In vain he oft...
Page 326 - Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber, or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn.