Poems and EssaysWilliam Smith, 113, Fleet Street, 1839 - 218 páginas |
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... grow to what they seem . But while this softer art their bliss supplies , It gives their follies also room to rise ; For praise too dearly loved , or warmly sought , Enfeebles all internal strength of thought : And the weak soul ...
... grow to what they seem . But while this softer art their bliss supplies , It gives their follies also room to rise ; For praise too dearly loved , or warmly sought , Enfeebles all internal strength of thought : And the weak soul ...
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... grow , Its double weight must ruin all below . O then how blind to all that truth requires , Who think it freedom ... grown , I fly from petty tyrants to the throne . Yes , Brother , curse with me that baleful hour , When first ambition ...
... grow , Its double weight must ruin all below . O then how blind to all that truth requires , Who think it freedom ... grown , I fly from petty tyrants to the throne . Yes , Brother , curse with me that baleful hour , When first ambition ...
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... population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale ; No busy steps the grass - grown footway tread , But all the bloomy flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd , solitary thing , That feebly 26 THE DESERTED VILLAGE .
... population fail , No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale ; No busy steps the grass - grown footway tread , But all the bloomy flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd , solitary thing , That feebly 26 THE DESERTED VILLAGE .
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... grows wild ; There , where a few torn shrubs the place disclose , The village preacher's modest mansion rose . A man he was to all the country dear , And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race ...
... grows wild ; There , where a few torn shrubs the place disclose , The village preacher's modest mansion rose . A man he was to all the country dear , And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race ...
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... grown , Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow , A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength , and every part unsound , Down , down they sink , and spread a ruin ...
... grown , Boast of a florid vigour not their own : At every draught more large and large they grow , A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe ; Till sapp'd their strength , and every part unsound , Down , down they sink , and spread a ruin ...
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Página 15 - Turn, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds immeasurably spread Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Página 72 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wond'rous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes.
Página 28 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side: But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 30 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 32 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits...
Página 45 - The wretch condemn'd with life to part Still, still on hope relies ; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way ; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Página 35 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Página 31 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied — Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Página 64 - Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word — From those who spoke her praise. The needy seldom pass'd her door, And always found her kind ; She freely lent to all the poor — Who left a pledge behind.
Página 29 - For, e'en though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.