Odes original and translated. With other poems

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Thomas and George Underwood, 1824 - Odes - 120 pages
 

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Page 118 - says, in reference to England, "All human things have an end : the state we are speaking of will lose its liberty — will perish. Have not
Page 15 - field. See! there, in his chair of state, Circled by the good and great, Britain's sceptred Monarch placed; In whom concentrated are met, And with the worth of either graced, The lines of Stuart and Plantagenet — Yes; noble as his noble Sire, He joys to see around him stand, With looks of love and eyes of fire,
Page 118 - Carthage, and Sparta fallen ? It will perish when the legislative power shall become more corrupt than the executive.
Page 3 - of Poesy, Of Pindus' fountains, and Parnassus' bowers; And if I seek to cull her humblest flowers, And o'er my brow entwine the graceful wreath, 'Tis more to while away life's tedious hours, And smooth the path that leads us on to death, Than court ephemeral praise, or Fame's as fleeting breath.
Page 52 - MAXIMIS RECITATUM. AD 1821. MARIA SCOTORUM REGINA. OLIM, ut vetustis condita turribus Gentis furores et procerum dolos Regina plorabat, Leveni * Ceeruleas speculata lymphas,
Page 6 - But where is he, the Northern Bard ? Why sleep his lyre and lute ? Where he of memory, he alike of hope, Who sung ? Why too are mute Those strains that once were heard Of Te'ian music 'mid green Erin's bowers ? Why sleeps that giant son of song, whose scope Not Nature's self can bound ? Why is the laureate harp too found Unwreathed with choicest flowers ? All—all are
Page 62 - At non secundos reddidit exitus Fortuna belli; militis impetu Non profuit tanti coronam Et solium reparare avitum : Ergo vetusti te laris exulem, MARIA, cui sors debita mitior, Nutus tyrannorum fugavit
Page 42 - Bove all the dying shriek — These — these are scenes that glad thy maddening soul, For they the waste of war bespeak; And who may dare control What thou, at Fate's command, around hast spread ? Contention fills each breast, And proud Ambition, o'er the heaped-up dead, At distance eyes his throne, and shakes his towering crest.
Page 117 - as when erst our Second Richard reigned. The coronation of Richard the Second is said to have been one of the most splendid and expensive pageants of that era; indeed his whole reign was remarkable for the most lavish profusion. How astonished would our ancestors have been could they but have seen our last! Page
Page 95 - THOU, spirit of the Teian bard, Leave for a while thy drear domain — Such gentle strains as erst were heard On Gra'ia's shore, oh, sound again! II. Oh, haste and bring thine airy lyre, "Which oft hath sung bright Beauty's smile Haste, and with sweetest notes aspire To sing the fair of Albion's isle.

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