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antient Antistrophe art thou ARVIRAGUS ATHELWOLD AULUS DIDIUS BARD beauty Behold Belinus bless blest bold breast breath Brigantes bright Britons brother brow Cæsar captive CARACTACUS CARACTACUS's charm CHORUS constant wife daughter death Dost thou doth drama dread Druid e'er Earl EDGAR EDWIN ELFRIDA ELIDURUS Ev'n ev'ry EVELINA fair falchion fate father fear flame fled give gods grace grief grove hail hallow'd Harewood Hark harp hast head hear heart heav'n holy honours hour immortal instant King kneel light Lord lyre maid Mona Muse o'er ORGAR pardon peace perchance pity praise prepar'd Prince Queen Romans Rome round sacred sage scene SEMICHORUS shade shalt sigh smile soft solemn song soul Strabo strain sword tears tell thee thine thro throne trembling Twas VELLINUS Virgins virtue warble weep wretch yonder youth
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Page 47 - Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, And died.
Page 30 - Behold each neighb'ring monarch's tomb ; The trophied arch, the breathing bust, The laurel shades their sacred dust: While thou, vile Out-cast, on this hostile plain, Moulder'st, a vulgar corse, among the vulgar slain.
Page 42 - Or caught the orient blush of quick surprise, How sweetly mutable, how brightly wild, The liquid lustre darted from her eyes ? Each look, each motion wak'da new-born grace, That o'er her form its transient glory cast : Some lovelier wonder soon usurp'd the place, Chas'd by a charm still lovelier than the last.
Page 138 - gainst Heav'n's will To violate their echoes : Patience here, Her meek hands folded on her modest breast, In mute submission lifts th' adoring eye, Ev'n to the storm that wrecks her.
Page 16 - When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Mem'ry and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth : Hence all thy classic...
Page 47 - Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if as fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
Page 191 - Julius feel, when, fir'd by it, our fathers First drove him recreant to his ships ; and ill Had far'd his second landing, but that fate Silenc'd the master Bard, who led the song.
Page 9 - Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart...
Page 12 - And every lily droop'd its silver head. Sad sympathy! yet sure his rightful meed Who charm'd all nature : well might Nature mourn Through all her choicest sweets Musaeus dead.
Page 198 - Now, thanks to the bright star that rul'd his birth ; Yes, he will soon return to claim my blessing, And he shall have it pour'd in tears of joy On his bold breast ! methought I heard a step : Is it not his ? BARD. 'Tis some of our own train, And as I think, they lead six Romans captive. CHORUS, CARACTACUS, CAPTIVES.