The works of mr. James Thomson, to which is prefixed the life of the author by P. Murdoch, Bindi 31802 |
Common terms and phrases
AGAMEMNON ALFRED Antium Arcas arms bear Behold beneath blood bosom brave breast Caius Marcius canst CASSANDRA charms CLYTEMNESTRA COMINIUS command Constantia CORIN CORIOLANUS cruel dare daughter dear death deeds dost dreadful duty e'er EGISTHUS ELECTRA ELTRUDA eyes fair faith faithless fate father fear fond fortune friendship fury GALESUS gentle give glorious glory gods hand happy hear heart Heaven HERMIT honour hope horror justice king LAURA lord lov'd Madam mankind mean MELISANDER mighty Mycena ne'er never noble o'er once OSMOND passions peace pity pride prince proud rage rais'd revenge Rodolpho Roman Roman senate Rome SCENE scorn senate shame Sicily SIFFREDI SIGISMUNDA slave soft soul spirit sword TALTHYBIUS TANCRED tears tempest tender thee thine thou hast thought thro throne TITUS toil traitor Troy truth TULLUS tyrant vengeance VETURIA virtue Volsci Volscian Volumnia VOLUSIUS weakness whate'er woes wretched
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Síða 128 - To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles, thine.
Síða 42 - Cast on the wildest of the Cyclad Isles, Where never human foot had mark'd the shore, These ruffians left me. — Yet believe me, Areas, Such is the rooted love we bear mankind, All ruffians as they were, I never heard A sound so dismal as their parting oars.
Síða 128 - WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain • " Rule Britannia, rule the waves ; Britons never will be slaves.
Síða 252 - Unseen, that rules th' illimitable world, — That guides its motions, from the brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the Lord of all, Is nought but weakness and dependence.
Síða 298 - As thou durst never ask ; a perfect union Of their whole nation with imperial Rome, In all her privileges, all her rights ; By the just gods, I will. — What would'st thou more ? Auf. What would I more, proud Roman ? This I would — Fire the cursed forest, where these Roman wolves Haunt and infest their nobler neighbours round them...
Síða 217 - Tis past — Your wrongs, I own, may well transport The wisest mind — But henceforth, noble Osmond, Do me more justice, honour more my truth, Nor mark me with an eye of squint suspicion — These jars apart — You may repose your soul On my firm faith and unremitting friendship.
Síða 234 - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
Síða 289 - Treat me thyself with more respect, my son ; Nor dare to shock my ears with such proposals. Shall I desert my country, I who come To plead her cause ? Ah no ! A grave in Rome Would better please me, than a throne at Antium. How hast thou thus forsaken all my...
Síða 177 - Oh, my Rodolpho, come, And save me from this traitor ! Hence, I say. " Avoid my presence strait ! and know, old man, " Thou, my worst foe beneath the mask of friendship, " Who, not content to trample in the dust " My dearest rights, dost with cool insolence " Persist, and call it duty ; hadst thou not " A daughter that protects thee, thou shouldst feel " The vengeance thou deserves!.
Síða 298 - Fire the cursed forest, where these Roman wolves Haunt and infest their nobler neighbours round them ; Extirpate from the bosom of this land A false, perfidious people, who, beneath The mask of freedom, are a combination Against the liberty of human kind ; The genuine seed of outlaws and of robbers.