Poems on Several Occasions: And Two Critical Essays; Viz., the First, on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers Whether in Prose Or Verse, the Second, on the Numbers of Paradise Lost, Bind 1John Hughs, 1745 - 174 sider |
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११ Accent ÆNEID agreeable almoſt alſo Ancients Anſwer Attorney at Law AURENG-ZEBE Beauty becauſe Bliſs Books call'd CICERO Cloſe Compoſitions conſiſts Dactyle Defire DEMOSTHENES Deſign diftinguiſh'd Earth eſpecially expreſs fame firſt fome fuch give Glory Grace Harmony Haſte Heaven Himſelf HORACE Iämbic Idéa ILIAD Inſtance Inſtruct Ipfwich Ipswich itſelf John Juſt juſtly Laſt leſs Lines Love Meaſure MILTON Mind moſt Movements Muſe Muſic muſt neceſſary obſerve Occafion Paffions PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAIN'D Paſſage Paſſion Pauſes pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poëm Poët Power of Numbers Praiſe preſent Profe Proſe purpoſe Pyrrichius QUINTILIAN Reader Reaſon REGAIN'D reſt RHYTHMUS Rime riſe ſame ſays ſee ſeems ſeen Senſe ſenſible Sentence ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſome ſometimes ſoon Soul Sounds Spondee ſtand ſtill ſtrike ſuch Sweet Syllables Thee themſelves Theſe Thoſe Thou Thoughts thro Tranſlation Trochee Uſe utmoſt Variety Verfe Verſe Voice whoſe Words
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Side 116 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Side 102 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Side 94 - Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon : then from pole to pole He views in breadth, and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seem'd other worlds ; Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles...
Side 139 - Hesperides, that seem'd Fairer than feign'd of old or fabled since Of faery damsels, met in forest wide By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Side 140 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Side 123 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Side 87 - By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
Side 91 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Side 138 - And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Side 160 - AND it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God...