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anger appear arms beauty becauſe beneath beſt breaſt charms death earth ev'ry eyes face fair fame fear feel fight fire firſt fond give grace grief hand happy hath head hear heart heav'n hence himſelf honour hour human joys juſt kind laſt leave light live look maid maſter merit mind morn mortal moſt muſt nature never night o'er once pain paſſion peace pity play pleaſing pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe pride reaſon reſentment reſt riſe round ſame ſaw ſay ſcene ſecret ſee ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmile ſome ſoul ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet tear tell thee theſe things thoſe thou thought thro true truth turn Twas uſeful virtue voice wealth whoſe young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 142 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "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 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Página 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Página 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Página 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Página 142 - 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. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Página 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Página 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Página 142 - 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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing Office Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing Office, John Walter |
| Autor | John Walter |
| Editora | J. Walter, 1785 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 5 Jun 2007 |
| Número de páginas | 225 páginas |
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