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... fortune ; Or to take arms against a siege of troubles , And , by opposing , end them ? To die . - To sleep- No more ! -- and by a sleep to say we end The heart - ach , and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to : ' tis a ...
... fortune ; Or to take arms against a siege of troubles , And , by opposing , end them ? To die . - To sleep- No more ! -- and by a sleep to say we end The heart - ach , and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to : ' tis a ...
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... fortune felt a wreck , Had that false servant sped in safety back ? This night , his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal , And what a fund of charity would fail ! >> Plus simple il fait aimer son hospitalité . >> 124 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
... fortune felt a wreck , Had that false servant sped in safety back ? This night , his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal , And what a fund of charity would fail ! >> Plus simple il fait aimer son hospitalité . >> 124 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
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... fortune still assists the bold , Resolv'd to make the first attack ; But Chloe drove him fiercely back . How could a nymph so chaste as Chloe , With constitution cold and snowy , Permit a brutish man to touch her ? Ev'n lambs by ...
... fortune still assists the bold , Resolv'd to make the first attack ; But Chloe drove him fiercely back . How could a nymph so chaste as Chloe , With constitution cold and snowy , Permit a brutish man to touch her ? Ev'n lambs by ...
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... obeys ; Let fops or fortune fly which way they will , Disdains all loss of tickets , or codille ; Spleen , vapours , or small - pox , above them all , Ainsi le même objet vu sous un autre jour , 220 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
... obeys ; Let fops or fortune fly which way they will , Disdains all loss of tickets , or codille ; Spleen , vapours , or small - pox , above them all , Ainsi le même objet vu sous un autre jour , 220 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
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... ning fair . CARDELIA . Is this the cause of your romantic strains ? A mightier grief my heavier heart sustains . As you by Love , so I by fortune cross'd , LA ROUGE ET NOIRE . ÉGLOGUE DE VILLE . BÉLINDE 246 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
... ning fair . CARDELIA . Is this the cause of your romantic strains ? A mightier grief my heavier heart sustains . As you by Love , so I by fortune cross'd , LA ROUGE ET NOIRE . ÉGLOGUE DE VILLE . BÉLINDE 246 POÉTIQUE ANGLAISE .
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amant Amid amour arms attraits bear beauté BÉLINDE beneath Betty blest bliss breast breath bright brillant call CARDELIA charms ciel clouds cœur Damon dear death desire douce doux e'er earth envy époux ev'n ev'ry eyes fate fear femme find first flame friend full gave give good grace great hand head headlong hear heart heav'n hélas Hence high hope kind kindling know l'amour lady last life light look lost love lovely madame made make mastiff mind Musidore my breast my fancy nature's never night nymph o'er once pain plaisirs pleasing pleasure pleurs pow'r pride reason round scorn shade sigh SMILINDA soft soon soul sound strange stream stroke sweet take tears tendre their think thou thought thrice thro vanity virtue warm wings wish world wretch Xantippe young youth
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Page 200 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the 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...
Page 38 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 186 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay: If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 78 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 330 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 376 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 4 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Page 80 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 184 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 72 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...