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... race ! yet oft The sacred sons of vengeance ; on whose course Corrosive famine waits , and kills the year . To check this plague , the skilful farmer chaff And blazing straw , before his orchard , burns ; Till , all involved in smoke ...
... race ! yet oft The sacred sons of vengeance ; on whose course Corrosive famine waits , and kills the year . To check this plague , the skilful farmer chaff And blazing straw , before his orchard , burns ; Till , all involved in smoke ...
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... race Of uncorrupted Man , nor blush'd to see The sluggard sleep beneath its sacred beam : For their light slumbers gently fumed away ; And up they rose as vigorous as the sun , Or to the culture of the willing glebe , Or to the cheerful ...
... race Of uncorrupted Man , nor blush'd to see The sluggard sleep beneath its sacred beam : For their light slumbers gently fumed away ; And up they rose as vigorous as the sun , Or to the culture of the willing glebe , Or to the cheerful ...
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... race , Then , issuing cheerful , to thy sport repair ; Chief should the western breezes curling play , And light o'er ether bear the shadowy clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid their hills , And woodlands warbling round ...
... race , Then , issuing cheerful , to thy sport repair ; Chief should the western breezes curling play , And light o'er ether bear the shadowy clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid their hills , And woodlands warbling round ...
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... race , where beauty plays Her idle freaks ; from family diffused To family , as flies the father - dust , The varied colours run ; and while they break On the charm'd eye , th ' exulting florist marks , With secret pride , the wonders ...
... race , where beauty plays Her idle freaks ; from family diffused To family , as flies the father - dust , The varied colours run ; and while they break On the charm'd eye , th ' exulting florist marks , With secret pride , the wonders ...
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... race , And to the simple , art . With stealthy wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a neighbouring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarm'd , deceive 670 680 690 Th ' unfeeling schoolboy ...
... race , And to the simple , art . With stealthy wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a neighbouring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarm'd , deceive 670 680 690 Th ' unfeeling schoolboy ...
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amid beam behold beneath blaze bliss bloom breast breath bright Britons brow calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms cheerful clouds dark death deep delight dread E'en earth ether Eton College fair fame fancy fate fierce fire flame flood gale genius gloom glory glow grace Greece groves hand happy heart heaven Hence hills Julius Cæsar kings labour land Latium Liberty light luxury lyre Margaret of Anjou matchless mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night nought o'er ODIN passions peace Pindar plain poison'd pomp pour'd pride race rage rapture reign rise Rome round sacred scene shade shine shore smile soft song sons soul spirit spread Spring storm stream swain sweet swelling tempest tender thee thine thou toil train trembling tyrant UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vale vex'd virtue waste wave whence wild winds wing woods youth
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Página 373 - 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 366 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
Página 366 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 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 179 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 369 - The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 368 - 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...
Página 378 - Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres...
Página 125 - Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering; till at last the flakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow.
Página 369 - 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 368 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.