British Synonymy; Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation: Inscribed, with Sentiments of Gratitude and Respect, ...G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794 |
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412 페이지 - Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
411 페이지 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
77 페이지 - Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
2 페이지 - There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and. whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
101 페이지 - Waller was fmooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verfe, the full-refounding line, The long majeftic march, and energy divine.
120 페이지 - Enough ! thou haft convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet. Proceed with thy narration." " To be a poet," faid Imlac, " is indeed very difficult." " So difficult," returned the prince, " that I will at prefent hear no more of his labours. Tell me whither you went when you had feen Perfia.
290 페이지 - Revelations, who fits upon a fcarlet-coloured beaft, is exprefsly faid to be that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth — a difcrimination that could agree only with Rome at that period, chap. xvii. verfe 18. This is a FIGURE ; fo was the Roman eagle in vifion to Efdras, book II. chap. xi. and xii. where the...
349 페이지 - Puts all upon a defp'rate bet ; Then plunges in the Southern waves, Dipt over head and ears in debt. So, by a calenture...
126 페이지 - Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair ; Ulysses, far in fighting fields renown'd, Before whose arm Troy tumbled to the ground.' " The astonished savage with a roar replies : ' Oh heavens ! oh faith of ancient prophecies ! This, Telemus Eurymedes foretold (The mighty seer who on these hills grew old ; Skill'd the dark fates of mortals to declare, And learn'd in all wing'd omens of the air) ; Long since he menaced, such was Fate's command ; And named Ulysses as the destined hand.
27 페이지 - Begun by sloth, and nursed by too much ease. The idle god of love supinely dreams, Amidst inglorious shades and purling streams ; In rosy fetters and fantastic chains, He binds' deluded maids and simple swains; With soft enjoyments wooes them to forget The hardy toils and labours of the great.