The Destruction Of Troy (John Denham Poems)
AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS,THE ARGUMENT.The first book speaks of Aeneas's voyage by sea, and how, ...
AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL'S AENEIS,THE ARGUMENT.The first book speaks of Aeneas's voyage by sea, and how, ...
Sure there are poets which did never dreamUpon Parnassus, nor did taste the streamOf Helicon; we therefore may supposeThose made ...
Wisdom's first progress is to take a viewWhat's decent or indecent, false or true.He's truly prudent who can separateHonest from ...
Having at large declared Jove's embassy,Cyllenius from Aeneas straight doth fly;He, loth to disobey the god's command,Nor willing to forsake ...
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
But will you now to peace incline, And languish in the main design, And leave us in the lurch? I would not monarchy ...
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
After so many concurring petitionsFrom all ages and sexes, and all conditions,We come in the rear to present our folliesTo ...
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
FROM WHENCE WE BROUGHT L, FOR HIS MAJESTY, BYTHE DECIMATION OF HIS SCOTTISH SUBJECTS THERE.Toll, toll, Gentle bell, for the soul Of ...
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,That few but such as cannot write, translate.But what in them is ...
So shall we joy, when all whom beasts and wormsHave turn'd to their own substances and forms:Whom earth to earth, ...
BEING INVITED FROM CALAIS TO BOULOGNE, TO EAT A PIG.All on a weeping Monday, With a fat vulgarian sloven, Little admiral John To ...
What mighty gale hath raised a flight so strong,So high above all vulgar eyes, so long?One single rapture scarce itself ...
Great Strafford! worthy of that name, though allOf thee could be forgotten, but thy fall,Crush'd by imaginary treason's weight,Which too ...
You heard of that wonder, of the lightning and thunder, Which made the lie so much the louder: Now list to another, ...
Thus to Glaucus spakeDivine Sarpedon, since he did not findOthers, as great in place, as great in mind:--Above the rest ...
AND MR WILLIAM MURREY'S FROM SCOTLAND. Our resident Tom, From Venice is come,And hath left the statesman behind him; Talks at the same ...
Do you not know, not a fortnight ago, How they bragg'd of a Western Wonder? When a hundred and ten slew five ...
A tablet stood of that abstersive tree, Where Aethiop's swarthy bird did build her nest;Inlaid it was with Libyan ivory, Drawn from ...
What gives us that fantastic fit, That all our judgment and our wit To vulgar custom we submit?Treason, theft, murder, and all ...
Morpheus! the humble god, that dwells In cottages and smoky cells, Hates gilded roofs and beds of down; And though he fears no ...
Somnus, the humble god that dwellsIn cottages and smoky cells,Hates gilded roofs and beds of down;And, though he fears no ...
O could I flow like thee, and make thy streamMy great example, as it is my theme!Though deep, yet clear; ...
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