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الصفحة 74
... Adrastus king of Argos . Juno opposes , but to no effect : and Mercury is sent on a message to the shades , to the ghost of Laius , who is to appear to Eteocles , and provoke him to break the agreement . Polynices in the mean time ...
... Adrastus king of Argos . Juno opposes , but to no effect : and Mercury is sent on a message to the shades , to the ghost of Laius , who is to appear to Eteocles , and provoke him to break the agreement . Polynices in the mean time ...
الصفحة 86
... Adrastus soon , with gods averse , shall join In dire alliance with the Theban line ; Hence strife shall rise , and mortal war succeed ; The guilty realms'of Tantalus shall bleed : Fix'd is their docm . This all - rememb'ring breast Yet ...
... Adrastus soon , with gods averse , shall join In dire alliance with the Theban line ; Hence strife shall rise , and mortal war succeed ; The guilty realms'of Tantalus shall bleed : Fix'd is their docm . This all - rememb'ring breast Yet ...
الصفحة 93
... Adrastus here his happy people sways , Bless'd with calm peace in his declining days ; 540 By both his parents of descent divine , Great Jove and Phoebus grac'd his noble line ; Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with a son , But two ...
... Adrastus here his happy people sways , Bless'd with calm peace in his declining days ; 540 By both his parents of descent divine , Great Jove and Phoebus grac'd his noble line ; Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with a son , But two ...
الصفحة 94
... Adrastus ' realms , and hospitable court , The king surveys his guests with curious eyes , 565 And views their arms and habit with surprise . A lion's yellow skin the Theban wears , Horrid his mane , and rough with curling hairs ; Such ...
... Adrastus ' realms , and hospitable court , The king surveys his guests with curious eyes , 565 And views their arms and habit with surprise . A lion's yellow skin the Theban wears , Horrid his mane , and rough with curling hairs ; Such ...
الصفحة 96
... Adrastus shone , Stretch'd on rich carpets on his iv'ry throne ; A lofty couch receives each princely guest ; Around , at awful distance , wait the rest . And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls , the guardian of his ...
... Adrastus shone , Stretch'd on rich carpets on his iv'ry throne ; A lofty couch receives each princely guest ; Around , at awful distance , wait the rest . And now the king , his royal feast to grace , Acestis calls , the guardian of his ...
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الصفحة 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
الصفحة 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
الصفحة 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
الصفحة 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
الصفحة 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
الصفحة 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
الصفحة 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
الصفحة 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
الصفحة 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
الصفحة 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.