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... Brave : It founds - his blood the kindling Hero pays , A cheap and ready price for thy eternal praise ! Tho ' felfish Fear th ' immortal ftrain deride , And mock the Warrior's wifh as frantic pride ! Ye gallant , hapless Dead of diftant ...
... Brave : It founds - his blood the kindling Hero pays , A cheap and ready price for thy eternal praise ! Tho ' felfish Fear th ' immortal ftrain deride , And mock the Warrior's wifh as frantic pride ! Ye gallant , hapless Dead of diftant ...
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... brave Spirit , as an impious Son , Who meanly fear'd to yield his vital flood , And fought his fafety by a Parent's blood ? Bafe calumny , at which Belief muft halt , And blind Credulity herself revolt . 255 260 265 Could that firm ...
... brave Spirit , as an impious Son , Who meanly fear'd to yield his vital flood , And fought his fafety by a Parent's blood ? Bafe calumny , at which Belief muft halt , And blind Credulity herself revolt . 255 260 265 Could that firm ...
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... brave Progenitors , ye vigorous Source Of modern Freedom and of Europe's force , While your rude minds , athirst for martial ftrife , 25 Mock'd all the meaner arts of polish'd life , The Muse still led you by her magic clue , And from ...
... brave Progenitors , ye vigorous Source Of modern Freedom and of Europe's force , While your rude minds , athirst for martial ftrife , 25 Mock'd all the meaner arts of polish'd life , The Muse still led you by her magic clue , And from ...
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... brave ODIN's Songs , our Northern fire , Rude , early framer of the modern Lyre , Fierce Freedom gave an energy fublime , Parent and Guardian of the Gothic Rhyme . While nurtur'd in the North's protecting arms , 40 The modern Muse ...
... brave ODIN's Songs , our Northern fire , Rude , early framer of the modern Lyre , Fierce Freedom gave an energy fublime , Parent and Guardian of the Gothic Rhyme . While nurtur'd in the North's protecting arms , 40 The modern Muse ...
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... Bard . 210 215 220 Brave Spaniard ! ftill thy wounded pride confole ; 225 Time shall not ftrike thy name from Glory's roll , Ver . 209. See NOTE IX . On ; On which thy generous and fraternal hand Emblaz'd each [ 55 ]
... Bard . 210 215 220 Brave Spaniard ! ftill thy wounded pride confole ; 225 Time shall not ftrike thy name from Glory's roll , Ver . 209. See NOTE IX . On ; On which thy generous and fraternal hand Emblaz'd each [ 55 ]
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Æneid afferts againſt Araucanians Bard bleft Boccacio breaſt CANTO Caupolican celebrated Chieftains cloſe compofition confiderable courſe Critic Dante darkneſs death defign defire deſcribed difplayed diſcover Engliſh Epic poem Epic poetry EPISTLE Ercilla eſcape eyes faid fame Fancy Fancy's fate fays feems fhall fingular fink fire firft firſt foldiers fome fond foon foul fplendid ftill ftrikes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fuperior fuppofed Genius heart Heroic herſelf himſelf Homer honour Indian juft juſt Lantaro laſt Lope de Vega Lucan lyre mind moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt noble NOTE numbers o'er occafion paffage paffed paffion Petrarch pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetical poetry praiſe prefent pride purſue raiſe reafon ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Spaniards Spaniſh ſpeak ſpirit ſpread ſtate ſtill ſuch thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tucapel uſe verfe Verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe William of Apulia
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Page 194 - Caron dimonio con occhi di bragia Loro accennando tutte le raccoglie ; Batte col remo qualunque s
Page 134 - ... that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart...
Page 192 - Ed ecco verso noi venir per nave Un vecchio, bianco per antico pelo, Gridando: Guai a voi, anime prave: Non isperate mai veder lo cielo: l' vegno per menarvi all' altra riva Nelle tenebre eterne, in caldo e in gielo. E tu, che se' costì, anima viva, Partiti da cotesti che son morti.
Page 92 - And turn'd each fairer image in his brain To blank confusion and her crazy train, 'Twas thine, with constant love, through...
Page 294 - ... late critics have taken with them), I know not what other expedients the epic poet might have...
Page 184 - Di questo impedimento ov' io ti mando, Si che duro giudicio lassù frange. Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando, K disse: Or abbisogna il tuo fedele Di te, ed io a te lo raccomando. Lucia, nimica -di ciascun crudele, Si mosse, e venne al loco dov
Page 120 - Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY ; Virgil of POLITICS : and nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION.
Page 172 - Guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle Vestite già de' raggi del pianeta Che mena dritto altrui per ogni calle.
Page 57 - NAVAL POET'S laureate head. Ye Nymphs of Tagus, from your golden cell, That caught the echo of his tuneful...
Page 211 - Voltaire himself and others, but the positive en:husiasm and the omission of any real negative criticism are new. Indeed, after making these statements, Hayley proceeds to translate almost 900 lines of the poem. The Essay on Epic Poetry soon came to be regarded...