The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 páginas |
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... sound's sweet charms entrance , And the fond breast with generous passion warm ? What boots the power each image to portray , The power with force each feeling to express ? How vain the hope that through life's little day , The soul ...
... sound's sweet charms entrance , And the fond breast with generous passion warm ? What boots the power each image to portray , The power with force each feeling to express ? How vain the hope that through life's little day , The soul ...
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... sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin ...
... sound To maids and shepherds round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin ...
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... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The ...
... sound , Now sublimest triumph swelling , Now on love and mercy dwelling ; And she , from out the veiling cloud , Breathed her magic notes aloud : And thou , thou rich - hair'd youth of morn , And all thy subject life was born ! C The ...
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... sounds to life The youths , whose locks divinely spreading , Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue , At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding , Applauding Freedom loved of old to view ? What new Alcæus , fancy - blest , Shali sing ...
... sounds to life The youths , whose locks divinely spreading , Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue , At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding , Applauding Freedom loved of old to view ? What new Alcæus , fancy - blest , Shali sing ...
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... sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base , When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke , And all the blended work of strength and grace , With many a rude repeated stroke , And ...
... sound , a giant statue , fell , Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base , When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke , And all the blended work of strength and grace , With many a rude repeated stroke , And ...
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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.