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By the night's obscurity , In this scale gold , in th ' other fame does lie , And
obscurer secrecy ! The weight of that mounts this so high . Unlike to every other
sprite , These men are Fortune's jewels , moulded bright ; Thou attempt'st not
men to ...
By the night's obscurity , In this scale gold , in th ' other fame does lie , And
obscurer secrecy ! The weight of that mounts this so high . Unlike to every other
sprite , These men are Fortune's jewels , moulded bright ; Thou attempt'st not
men to ...
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But , when I meant t'adopt thee for my son , And did as learn'd a portion assign ,
As ever any of the mighty Nine Had to their dearest children done ; When I resolv'
d t'exalt thy anointed name , Among the spiritual lords of peaceful fame ; Thou ...
But , when I meant t'adopt thee for my son , And did as learn'd a portion assign ,
As ever any of the mighty Nine Had to their dearest children done ; When I resolv'
d t'exalt thy anointed name , Among the spiritual lords of peaceful fame ; Thou ...
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But not the praise , " And purple all the ground with vernal flowers Phæbus
replied , and touchi'd my trembling ears ; Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken
dies , 142 “ Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil , The tufted crow - toe , and
pale ...
But not the praise , " And purple all the ground with vernal flowers Phæbus
replied , and touchi'd my trembling ears ; Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken
dies , 142 “ Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil , The tufted crow - toe , and
pale ...
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In fable or romance of Uther's son Space may produce new worlds ; whereof so
rife Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; There went a fame in Heaven that he
ere long And all who since , baptiz'd or infidel , Intended to create , and therein ...
In fable or romance of Uther's son Space may produce new worlds ; whereof so
rife Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; There went a fame in Heaven that he
ere long And all who since , baptiz'd or infidel , Intended to create , and therein ...
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That argued fear ; each on himself relied , Where erst was thickest fight , the
angelic throng , As only in luis arm the moment lay And left large field , unsafe
within the wind Of victory : deeds of eternal fame Of such cornmotion ; such as , to
set ...
That argued fear ; each on himself relied , Where erst was thickest fight , the
angelic throng , As only in luis arm the moment lay And left large field , unsafe
within the wind Of victory : deeds of eternal fame Of such cornmotion ; such as , to
set ...
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Page 8 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 136 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee...
Page 373 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that...
Page 10 - Built in the eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
Page 352 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven...
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Page 353 - Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
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Page 14 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.
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| Title | Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces |
| Author | John Aikin |
| Editor | John Aikin |
| Publisher | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 807 pages |
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