Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
As we arrived at our Lady's Steps,Incontinent all men reversed their caps,Bidding us welcome home, and joining hand,They ask from ...
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Farrar, when o'er Goodwin's pageLate I found thee poring,From the hydrostatic SageLeaky Memory storing,Or when groaning yesterdayNeedlessly distractedBy some bright ...
"Te quoque vatem dicunt pastores."-VIRGIL.O Maxwell, if by reason's strengthAnd studying of Babbage,You have transformed yourself at lengthInto a mental ...
You would extend the mind beyond the act,Furious, bending, suffering in thinAnd unpoetic dicta; you have beenForced by hypothesis to ...
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
1Meandering abroad in the Lincolnshire meadows dayDay and day a month perhaps, lying at night lonely,The early September evening administering ...
Captains of industry, your aimless powerAwakens harsh velleities of time:Let you, brother, captaining your hourBe zealous that your numbers are ...
That Tom was poor was sure a pity, Such guts for learning had the lad; He took to Greek like ...
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