The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 28

Samuel Johnson

C. Bathurst, 1779

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Страница 402 - When first we from the teeming womb were brought, With inborn precepts then our souls were fraught, And then the Maker his new creatures taught. Then when he form'd, and gave us to be men, He gave us all our useful knowledge then.

Страница 231 - Thou know'st not I am he to whom 'tis given Never to want the care of watchful heaven. Obedient fortune waits my humble thrall, And, always ready, comes before I call. Let winds, and seas, loud wars at freedom wage, And waste upon themselves their empty rage ; A stronger, mightier dromon is thy friend, Thou and thy bark on Cesar's fate depend.

Страница 401 - Their will has been thy law, and thou hast kept it well. Fate bids thee now the noble thought improve ; Fate brings thee here to meet and talk with Jove. Inquire betimes what various chance shall come To impious Caesar and thy native Rome ; Try to avert, at least, thy country's doom.

Страница 206 - In loud applause the pleas'd assembly join, And to the glorious task the chief assign: His country's fate they trust to him alone, And bid him fight Rome's battles, and his own. Next, to their friends their thanks are dealt around. And some with gifts, and some with praise are crown'd : Of these the chief are Rhodes, by Phosbus lovM, And Sparta rough, in virtue's lore approv'd. Of Athens much they speak; Massilia's aid Is with her parent Phocis

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Страница 401 - Where would thy fond, thy vain inquiry go? What mystic fate, what secret would'st thou know? Is it a doubt if death should be my doom, Rather than live till kings and bondage come, Rather than see a tyrant crown'd in Rome? Or would'st thou know if, what we value here, Life, be a trifle hardly worth our care? What by old age and length of days we gain, More than to lengthen out the sense of pain? Or if this world, with all its forces...

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• Заглавие: The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 28; The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson
• Редактор: Samuel Johnson
• Издател: C. Bathurst, 1779
• Оригиналът е от: Нюйоркската обществена библиотека
• Цифровизирана на: 20 юли 2006