Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volumen1Vicesimus Knox Rivington, 1791 |
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... Saw the rafh error which he could not mend ; An error fatal not to him alone , But to his future fons , his fortune's heirs . Inglorious bondage ! human nature groans Beneath a vaffalage fo vile and cruel , And its vaft body bleeds ...
... Saw the rafh error which he could not mend ; An error fatal not to him alone , But to his future fons , his fortune's heirs . Inglorious bondage ! human nature groans Beneath a vaffalage fo vile and cruel , And its vaft body bleeds ...
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... Saw , like thyfelf , that all things form'd were good ; Where fhall the timorous Bard thy praife begin , Where end the pureft facrifice of fong , light , And juft thanksgiving ? -The thougl.t - kindling Thy prime production , darts upon ...
... Saw , like thyfelf , that all things form'd were good ; Where fhall the timorous Bard thy praife begin , Where end the pureft facrifice of fong , light , And juft thanksgiving ? -The thougl.t - kindling Thy prime production , darts upon ...
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... saw the Nurse , like one poffefs'd , With wringing hands , and sobbing breast . Sure fome difafter has befel : Speak , Nurfe ! I hope the boy is well ? Dear Madam , think not me to blame ; Invisible the Fairy came : Your precious babe ...
... saw the Nurse , like one poffefs'd , With wringing hands , and sobbing breast . Sure fome difafter has befel : Speak , Nurfe ! I hope the boy is well ? Dear Madam , think not me to blame ; Invisible the Fairy came : Your precious babe ...
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... saw that all respect and duty Were paid to wealth , to pow'r , and beauty . Once more he cries , Accept my pray's ; Make my lov'd progeny thy care . Let my firft hope , my fav'rite boy , All fortune's richeft gifts enjoy . My My next ...
... saw that all respect and duty Were paid to wealth , to pow'r , and beauty . Once more he cries , Accept my pray's ; Make my lov'd progeny thy care . Let my firft hope , my fav'rite boy , All fortune's richeft gifts enjoy . My My next ...
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... saw his woeful plight , His limbs that totter'd with his weight ; And , friendly , to the ftable led , And faw him litter'd , drefs'd , and fed . In flothful cafe all night he lay ; The fervants rofe at break of day ; The market calls ...
... saw his woeful plight , His limbs that totter'd with his weight ; And , friendly , to the ftable led , And faw him litter'd , drefs'd , and fed . In flothful cafe all night he lay ; The fervants rofe at break of day ; The market calls ...
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Página 22 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 22 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 188 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 443 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Página 215 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Página 210 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 14 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 19 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe.
Página 205 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Página 33 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.