The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior, Том 1W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, T. Caslon, J. Nichols, and T. Evans, 1779 |
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... o'er earth's fubmiffive head , Marching through different paths to different lands ? V. Why does the constant fun With measur'd steps his radiant journies run ? Why does he order the diurnal hours To leave earth's other part , and rife ...
... o'er earth's fubmiffive head , Marching through different paths to different lands ? V. Why does the constant fun With measur'd steps his radiant journies run ? Why does he order the diurnal hours To leave earth's other part , and rife ...
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... o'er this deftin'd breast . My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain : For I was born to love , and thou to reign . II . But would you meanly thus rely On power , you know I must obey ? Exert a legal tyranny ; And do an ill , because you ...
... o'er this deftin'd breast . My reason bends to what thy eyes ordain : For I was born to love , and thou to reign . II . But would you meanly thus rely On power , you know I must obey ? Exert a legal tyranny ; And do an ill , because you ...
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... to engage ; So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures fhall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . AN A N EPIST LE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD , ESQ BURLEIGH 12 POEMS OF.
... to engage ; So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age : So Time itself our raptures fhall improve , While still we wake to joy , and live to love . AN A N EPIST LE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD , ESQ BURLEIGH 12 POEMS OF.
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... o'er that mind vain triumph boast , Which gains a Heav'n , for earthly Eden loft . With virtue ftrong as yours had Eve been arm'd , In vain the fruit had blufh'd , or ferpent charm'd ; Nor had our blifs by penitence been bought ; Nor ...
... o'er that mind vain triumph boast , Which gains a Heav'n , for earthly Eden loft . With virtue ftrong as yours had Eve been arm'd , In vain the fruit had blufh'd , or ferpent charm'd ; Nor had our blifs by penitence been bought ; Nor ...
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... o'er Delos ' hills confest , With all thy arrows arm'd , in all thy glory drest . Like thee , the hero does his arms employ , The raging Python to destroy , And give the injur'd nations peace and joy . IV . From fairest years , and ...
... o'er Delos ' hills confest , With all thy arrows arm'd , in all thy glory drest . Like thee , the hero does his arms employ , The raging Python to destroy , And give the injur'd nations peace and joy . IV . From fairest years , and ...
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Сторінка 119 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Сторінка 217 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
Сторінка 30 - Gather all the fmiling hours ; Such as with friendly care have guarded Patriots and kings in rightful wars ; Such as with conqueft have rewarded Triumphant viftors' happy cares ; Such as ftory has recorded Sacred to Naflau's long renown, For countries fav'd, and battles won.
Сторінка 111 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Сторінка 25 - tis thus complain, Since you appear'd upon the plain; You are the cause of all my care: Your eyes ten thousand dangers dart: Ten thousand torments vex my heart: I love, and I despair.
Сторінка 111 - ... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.
Сторінка 111 - Chloe, and what I write, shows The difference there is betwixt nature and art: I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart.
Сторінка 10 - Cheeks confest ; Thou hast, my Dear, undoubted Right To triumph o'er this destin'd Breast. My Reason bends to what thy Eyes ordain ; For I was born to Love, and Thou to Reign. II. But would You meanly thus rely On Power, You know I must Obey ? Exert a Legal Tyranny...
Сторінка 376 - With honour take her back again ? From hence I logically gather, The woman cannot live with either. Now, I have two right...
Сторінка 358 - Note here, Lucretius dares to teach (As all our youth may learn from Creech) That eyes were made but could not view, Nor hands embrace, nor feet pursue, But heedless Nature did produce The members first, and then the use : What each must act was yet unknown, Till all is mov'd by Chance alone.