The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 páginas |
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... hope that through life's little day , The soul with thought of future fame can bless . While Folly frequent boasts th ' insculptured tomb , By flattery's pen inscribed with purchased praise ; While rustic Labour's undistinguish'd doom ...
... hope that through life's little day , The soul with thought of future fame can bless . While Folly frequent boasts th ' insculptured tomb , By flattery's pen inscribed with purchased praise ; While rustic Labour's undistinguish'd doom ...
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... hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the fair ; Each tender passion man delights to find , The loved perfections of a ...
... hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the fair ; Each tender passion man delights to find , The loved perfections of a ...
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... hope the dear delights to know , Which plains more blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When ...
... hope the dear delights to know , Which plains more blest , or verdaut vales bestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found , And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When ...
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... rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only one , unrivall'd fair , Might hope the magic girdle wear , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . At solemn turney hung on high , The wish of 24 ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER .
... rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only one , unrivall'd fair , Might hope the magic girdle wear , Florimel . See Spenser , Leg . 4th . At solemn turney hung on high , The wish of 24 ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER .
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... Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding step pursue ; In vain - Such bliss to one alone , Of all the sons of soul , was known , And Heaven , and Fancy , kindred powers , Have now o'erturn'd th ' inspiring bowers , Or ...
... Hope's aspiring tongue , My trembling feet his guiding step pursue ; In vain - Such bliss to one alone , Of all the sons of soul , was known , And Heaven , and Fancy , kindred powers , Have now o'erturn'd th ' inspiring bowers , Or ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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Página 110 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Página 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Página 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Página 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Página 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Página 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Página 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.