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Page 374
... The place of fame and elegy supply ; : . . And many a holy text around she
strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who , to dumb forgetfulness a
prey , This pleasing anxious being e ' er resign ' d , Sur de rians climats répandre
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... The place of fame and elegy supply ; : . . And many a holy text around she
strews , That teach the rustic moralist to die . For who , to dumb forgetfulness a
prey , This pleasing anxious being e ' er resign ' d , Sur de rians climats répandre
l ...
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Page 188 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay: If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 78 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Page 332 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
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Page 374 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 333 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
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Page 208 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poétique anglaise, Volume 3 Poétique anglaise, Albin Joseph U. Hennet |
| Author | Albin Joseph U. Hennet |
| Published | 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Nov 2006 |
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