A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... live to fee The fatal time when that could be ! ) Have ev'n increas'd their pride and cruelty . Woman feems now ... lives , Which ftill the fooner it arrives , Although we boaft our winter - fun looks bright , And foolishly are glad to ...
... live to fee The fatal time when that could be ! ) Have ev'n increas'd their pride and cruelty . Woman feems now ... lives , Which ftill the fooner it arrives , Although we boaft our winter - fun looks bright , And foolishly are glad to ...
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... live among Detractors with an evil tongue , Who may object against the term , Pliny fhall prove what we affirm : Pliny fhall prove , and we'll apply , And I'll be judg'd by ftanders - by . First , then , our author has defin'd This ...
... live among Detractors with an evil tongue , Who may object against the term , Pliny fhall prove what we affirm : Pliny fhall prove , and we'll apply , And I'll be judg'd by ftanders - by . First , then , our author has defin'd This ...
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... live on Chriftian ground , They and their houfes fhall be drown'd ; Whilft you fhali fee your cottage rise , And grow a church before your eyes . They fcarce had spoke , when fair and foft The roof began to mount aloft ; Aloft rofe ...
... live on Chriftian ground , They and their houfes fhall be drown'd ; Whilft you fhali fee your cottage rise , And grow a church before your eyes . They fcarce had spoke , when fair and foft The roof began to mount aloft ; Aloft rofe ...
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... lives ! And , had her stock been lefs , no doubt She must have long ago run out . Then who can think we'll quit the ... live to fee the day When Stella's locks muft all be gray , When age muft print a furrow'd trace : On every feature ...
... lives ! And , had her stock been lefs , no doubt She must have long ago run out . Then who can think we'll quit the ... live to fee the day When Stella's locks muft all be gray , When age muft print a furrow'd trace : On every feature ...
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... live , that no man is fhy To difcover the goods he came honeftly by . If I light on a thought , he will certainly steal it , And , when he has got it , find ways to conceal it : Of all the fine things he keeps in the dark , There's ...
... live , that no man is fhy To difcover the goods he came honeftly by . If I light on a thought , he will certainly steal it , And , when he has got it , find ways to conceal it : Of all the fine things he keeps in the dark , There's ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ANTISTROPHE beauty behold beneath blefs bleft breaft breath charms Dean dear death defcending defire delight divine dreft earth ECLOGUE Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fair fame fate fatire fave fcene fecret feems feen fenfe fhade fhall fhine fhore fhould fhow fide filk fing firft firſt fkies flain flame fleep fmile foft fome fong fons foon forrow foul fpirit fpread fpring ftand ftate ftill ftrain ftream fubject fuch funk fure fwain fweet fwell glory grace heart heaven himſelf honour juft king laft lefs loft Lord mind moſt mufe muft muſt ne'er never numbers nymph o'er paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet praife praiſe pride profe rage reafon reft reign rife rofe round ſcene ſhall ſkies ſky ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand toil verfe virtue Whig whofe wife youth
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Página 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Página 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
Página 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Página 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Página 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.