Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 3John Aikin |
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... sound , A present deity , they shout around : A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod , And seems to shake the spheres . CHORUS . With ravish'd ears The monarch ...
... sound , A present deity , they shout around : A present deity the vaulted roofs rebound : With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod , And seems to shake the spheres . CHORUS . With ravish'd ears The monarch ...
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... Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ; 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 ' blessings are a ...
... Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ; 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 ' blessings are a ...
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... stole ; And tears began to flow . The mighty master smil'd , to see That love was in the next degree : ' Twas but a kindred sound to move , For pity melts the mind to love . Softly sweet , in Lydian measures , Soon he sooth'd DRYDEN .
... stole ; And tears began to flow . The mighty master smil'd , to see That love was in the next degree : ' Twas but a kindred sound to move , For pity melts the mind to love . Softly sweet , in Lydian measures , Soon he sooth'd DRYDEN .
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... sound Has rais'd up his head ! As awak'd from the dead , And amaz'd , he stares around . Revenge , revenge , Timotheus cries , See the Furies arise : See the snakes that they rear , How they hiss in their hair , And the sparkles that ...
... sound Has rais'd up his head ! As awak'd from the dead , And amaz'd , he stares around . Revenge , revenge , Timotheus cries , See the Furies arise : See the snakes that they rear , How they hiss in their hair , And the sparkles that ...
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... sounds , With Nature's mother - wit , and arts unknown before . Let old Timotheus yield the prize , Or both divide the crown ; He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . GRAND CHORUS . At last divine Cecilia came ...
... sounds , With Nature's mother - wit , and arts unknown before . Let old Timotheus yield the prize , Or both divide the crown ; He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . GRAND CHORUS . At last divine Cecilia came ...
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Page 2 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 3 - 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...
Page 104 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Page 213 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm...
Page 6 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Page 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 276 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Page 209 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Page 169 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire ; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. " Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay ; In narrow mazes oft it seem'd to meet, . And look'd as lightly ^press'd by fairy feet.
Page 274 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.