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... Greek . THRACIANS ! who howl around an infant's birth , And give the funeral hour to songs and mirth , Well in your grief and gladness are exprest , That life is labour , and that death is rest ! From the Greek . ABUNDANCE is a blessing ...
... Greek . THRACIANS ! who howl around an infant's birth , And give the funeral hour to songs and mirth , Well in your grief and gladness are exprest , That life is labour , and that death is rest ! From the Greek . ABUNDANCE is a blessing ...
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... Greek . HIS shafts , the terror of the skies , No more the God of love discover Now from fair Anna's azure eyes With surer aim they wound the lover For Venus he mistook the maid , And laughing ran his arms to give her The bow she bent ...
... Greek . HIS shafts , the terror of the skies , No more the God of love discover Now from fair Anna's azure eyes With surer aim they wound the lover For Venus he mistook the maid , And laughing ran his arms to give her The bow she bent ...
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... Greek . THE man who first laid down the pedant rule That love is folly , was himself the fool ; For if to life that transport you deny , What privilege is left us - but to die ? From Martial . LET Rufus weep , rejoice , stand , sit , or ...
... Greek . THE man who first laid down the pedant rule That love is folly , was himself the fool ; For if to life that transport you deny , What privilege is left us - but to die ? From Martial . LET Rufus weep , rejoice , stand , sit , or ...
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... Greeks we know ( I note it here in charity ) Had taste in beauty , and with them The Graces all were χάριται . — Punch . EFFECTS WITHOUT A CAUSE . THOUGH sages swear , ' Without a cause There's no effect , ' - its mockery ; There are ...
... Greeks we know ( I note it here in charity ) Had taste in beauty , and with them The Graces all were χάριται . — Punch . EFFECTS WITHOUT A CAUSE . THOUGH sages swear , ' Without a cause There's no effect , ' - its mockery ; There are ...
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... Greek . My friend , an eminent physician , Trusted his son to my tuition : The father wish'd me to explain The beauties of old Homer's strain . But scarce these lines the youth had read , ' Of thousands number'd with the dead , ' Of ...
... Greek . My friend , an eminent physician , Trusted his son to my tuition : The father wish'd me to explain The beauties of old Homer's strain . But scarce these lines the youth had read , ' Of thousands number'd with the dead , ' Of ...
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Page 73 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 65 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 212 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 73 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 138 - But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all; The doctors found, when she was dead, — Her last disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent Street well may say, That had she lived a twelvemonth more — She had not died to-day.
Page 53 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen, about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Page 148 - What can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store? — or driven For want of knowing the poet, to say him nay? Well, they should know him, would the king but grant His poet leave to sing his household true...
Page 89 - King George in a fright, Lest Gibbon should write The story of Britain's disgrace, Thought no means more sure His pen to secure, Than to give the historian a place.