Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... appear ! How will you envy then the happy fate Of idiots ! and perhaps in vain you'll wish You'd been as very fools ... appears most bright , And charms the eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee Let every nobler genius tune his voice To ...
... appear ! How will you envy then the happy fate Of idiots ! and perhaps in vain you'll wish You'd been as very fools ... appears most bright , And charms the eyes of angels . - Oh ! like thee Let every nobler genius tune his voice To ...
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... appear and obey : " By the word of the Lord were the heavens made , and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth : " This is working like a God , with infinite ease and omnipotence . His wonders of providence for the terrour and ...
... appear and obey : " By the word of the Lord were the heavens made , and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth : " This is working like a God , with infinite ease and omnipotence . His wonders of providence for the terrour and ...
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... appear like itself , and confound the blasphemies of a profligate world , ignorant of pious pleasures . But we have reason to fear , that the tuneful men of our day have not raised their ambition to so di- vine a pitch ; I should ...
... appear like itself , and confound the blasphemies of a profligate world , ignorant of pious pleasures . But we have reason to fear , that the tuneful men of our day have not raised their ambition to so di- vine a pitch ; I should ...
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... appear that virtue and love are not such strangers as they are represented . The blissful intimacy of souls in that state will afford sufficient furniture for the gravest entertainment in verse ; so that it need not be everlastingly ...
... appear that virtue and love are not such strangers as they are represented . The blissful intimacy of souls in that state will afford sufficient furniture for the gravest entertainment in verse ; so that it need not be everlastingly ...
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... appear Through all the hollow ground . These skulls , what ghastly figures now ! How loathsome to the eyes ! These are the heads we lately knew So beauteous and so wise . But where the souls , those deathless things , That left this ...
... appear Through all the hollow ground . These skulls , what ghastly figures now ! How loathsome to the eyes ! These are the heads we lately knew So beauteous and so wise . But where the souls , those deathless things , That left this ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
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Página 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Página 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Página 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Página 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Página 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Página 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Página 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Página 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...