Download book The Works of the English Poets Volume 56; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
Download book The Works of the English Poets Volume 56; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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Author: Samuel Johnson
Number of Pages: 84 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781231022245
File size: 35 Mb
File Name: The.Works.of.the.English.Poets.Volume.56;.With.Prefaces,.Biographical.and.Critical.pdf
Download Link: The Works of the English Poets Volume 56; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ... 4 Human Human hopes, now mounting high-On the swelling surge of joy; Now with unexpected woe Sinking to the depths below. ANTISTROPHE. For sure presage of things to come None yet on mortals have the gods bestow'd; Nor of futurity's impervious gloom Can wisdom pierce the cloud. Oft our most sanguine views th' event deceives, And veils in sudden grief the smiling ray'i Oft, when with woe the mournful bosom heaves, Caught in a storm of anguish and dismay, Pass some fleeting moments by, AH at once the tempests flyi Ir.stant shifts the clouded scene; Heaven renews its smiles serene; And on Joy's untroubled tides Smooth to port the vessel glides. E P O D E. Son of Philanor I in the secret made Thus had thy speed unknown to fame decay"d; Thus, like the-J-crested bird of Mars, at home Engag'd in foul domestick jars, And wasted with intestine wars, Inglorious Ergoteles. f The cock. Inglorious hadst thou spent thy vigorous bloom 5 Had not sedition's civil broils Expell'd thee from thy native Crete, And driven thee with more glorious toils i' TV Olympiad: crown in Pisa's plain to meet. With olive now, with Pythian laurels grac'd, And the dark chaplets of the Isthmian pine, In Himera's adopted city plac'd, '. To all, Ergoteles, thy honours mine, And raise her lustre by imparting thine. THE THE FOURTEENTH OLYMPIC'K ODE. This Ode is inscribed to Asophicus, the Son of Cleodemus of Orchomenus; who, in the Seventy-sixth Olympiad, gained the victory in the simple Foot-Race, and in the Class of Boys. ARGUMENT. ORCHOMENUS, a city of B otia, and the countiy of the victor Asophicus, being under the protection of the Graces, her tutelary deities, to them Pindar addresses this Ode; which was probably fung in the very temple of those goddesses, at a sacrisice offered by ...
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The Works of the English Poets Volume 56; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical. Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
Number of Pages: 84 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781231022245
File size: 35 Mb
File Name: The.Works.of.the.English.Poets.Volume.56;.With.Prefaces,.Biographical.and.Critical.pdf
Download Link: The Works of the English Poets Volume 56; With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ... 4 Human Human hopes, now mounting high-On the swelling surge of joy; Now with unexpected woe Sinking to the depths below. ANTISTROPHE. For sure presage of things to come None yet on mortals have the gods bestow'd; Nor of futurity's impervious gloom Can wisdom pierce the cloud. Oft our most sanguine views th' event deceives, And veils in sudden grief the smiling ray'i Oft, when with woe the mournful bosom heaves, Caught in a storm of anguish and dismay, Pass some fleeting moments by, AH at once the tempests flyi Ir.stant shifts the clouded scene; Heaven renews its smiles serene; And on Joy's untroubled tides Smooth to port the vessel glides. E P O D E. Son of Philanor I in the secret made Thus had thy speed unknown to fame decay"d; Thus, like the-J-crested bird of Mars, at home Engag'd in foul domestick jars, And wasted with intestine wars, Inglorious Ergoteles. f The cock. Inglorious hadst thou spent thy vigorous bloom 5 Had not sedition's civil broils Expell'd thee from thy native Crete, And driven thee with more glorious toils i' TV Olympiad: crown in Pisa's plain to meet. With olive now, with Pythian laurels grac'd, And the dark chaplets of the Isthmian pine, In Himera's adopted city plac'd, '. To all, Ergoteles, thy honours mine, And raise her lustre by imparting thine. THE THE FOURTEENTH OLYMPIC'K ODE. This Ode is inscribed to Asophicus, the Son of Cleodemus of Orchomenus; who, in the Seventy-sixth Olympiad, gained the victory in the simple Foot-Race, and in the Class of Boys. ARGUMENT. ORCHOMENUS, a city of B otia, and the countiy of the victor Asophicus, being under the protection of the Graces, her tutelary deities, to them Pindar addresses this Ode; which was probably fung in the very temple of those goddesses, at a sacrisice offered by ...
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