The Works of the English Poets: WallerH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 17
Page 1
... stayed till the latest grapes were ripe : for , here your Lady- ship has not only all I have done , but all I ever mean to do of this kind . Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry , by the examples ( not to ...
... stayed till the latest grapes were ripe : for , here your Lady- ship has not only all I have done , but all I ever mean to do of this kind . Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry , by the examples ( not to ...
Page 46
... STAY , Phoebus , ftay ! The world to which you fly so fast , Conveying day From us to them , can pay your haste With no fuch object , nor falute your rife With no fuch wonder , as De Mornay's eyes . Well does this prove The error of ...
... STAY , Phoebus , ftay ! The world to which you fly so fast , Conveying day From us to them , can pay your haste With no fuch object , nor falute your rife With no fuch wonder , as De Mornay's eyes . Well does this prove The error of ...
Page 54
... stay . Yet , what he fung in his immortal strain , Though unfuccefsful , was not fung in vain : All , but the Nymph that should redress his wrong , Attend his paffion , and approve his fong . Like Phoebus thus , acquiring unfought ...
... stay . Yet , what he fung in his immortal strain , Though unfuccefsful , was not fung in vain : All , but the Nymph that should redress his wrong , Attend his paffion , and approve his fong . Like Phoebus thus , acquiring unfought ...
Page 65
... stay , But favage beasts , or men as wild as they ! There the fair light , which all our island grac'd , Like Hero's taper in the window plac'd , Such fate from the malignant air did find , As that expofed to the boisterous wind . Ah ...
... stay , But favage beasts , or men as wild as they ! There the fair light , which all our island grac'd , Like Hero's taper in the window plac'd , Such fate from the malignant air did find , As that expofed to the boisterous wind . Ah ...
Page 74
... stay behind , Is by the vastnefs of her bulk confin'd . They fhout for joy ! and now on her alone Their fury falls , and all their darts are thrown . Their lances spent , one , bolder than the rest , With his broad fword provok'd the ...
... stay behind , Is by the vastnefs of her bulk confin'd . They fhout for joy ! and now on her alone Their fury falls , and all their darts are thrown . Their lances spent , one , bolder than the rest , With his broad fword provok'd the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
againſt Amoret beauty beſt bleft blood bold bounty brave breaſt Britiſh CANTO Chloris command courage dark oracles Engliſh eyes facred fafe fair falutes fame fate fear feem fhall fhew fhining fhips fight fince fing firft firſt flame foes fome fong foul ftill fuch give glory grace Heaven himſelf increaſe inftruct inſpire iſland itſelf Jove juſt King Lady laft laſt lefs light live loft Lucretius marble live mind mortal Mufe muft Muſe muſt noble nobler Numbers Nymph o'er paffion peace Phaëton Phoebus plac'd pleaſe pleaſure Poems praiſe prefent Prince rage raiſe reſt rife riſe royal ſea ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhould ſhow ſome ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtore ſuch ſweet tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand uſe Verfe verſe vex'd virtue WALLER whofe whoſe wind youth
Popular passages
Page 232 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 135 - Whether this portion of the world were rent By the rude ocean from the continent, Or thus created, it was sure design'd To be the sacred refuge of mankind.
Page 137 - A race unconquer'd, by their clime made bold, The Caledonians, arm'd with want and cold, Have, by a fate indulgent to your fame, Been from all ages kept for you to tame. Whom the old Roman wall...
Page 231 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Page 151 - For future shade, young trees upon the banks Of the new stream appear in even ranks : The voice of Orpheus, or Amphion's hand, In better order could not make them stand...
Page 136 - Of her own growth hath all that nature craves, And all that's rare, as tribute from the waves. As ./Egypt does not on the clouds rely, But to...
Page 99 - Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Page 87 - ON A GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 9 - There was no distinction of parts, no regular stops, nothing for the ear to rest upon ; but as soon as the copy began, down it went like a larum, incessantly ; and the reader was sure to be out of breath before he got to the end of it : so that really verse, in those days, was but downright prose tagged with rhymes.
Page 136 - Gold, though the heaviest metal, hither swims. Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow, We plough the deep, and reap what others sow.