The task, and minor poems [ed.] by E. Lee1900 |
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... crowns it ! yet not all its pride secures The grand retreat from injuries impressed By rural carvers , who with knives deface The panels , leaving an obscure , rude name , In characters uncouth , and spelt amiss . So strong the zeal to ...
... crowns it ! yet not all its pride secures The grand retreat from injuries impressed By rural carvers , who with knives deface The panels , leaving an obscure , rude name , In characters uncouth , and spelt amiss . So strong the zeal to ...
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... crown , With all the cunning of an envious shrew . And let that pass , — ' twas but a trick of state . A brave man knows no malice , but at once Forgets in peace the injuries of war , And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace . And ...
... crown , With all the cunning of an envious shrew . And let that pass , — ' twas but a trick of state . A brave man knows no malice , but at once Forgets in peace the injuries of war , And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace . And ...
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... crown ! – ' Tis generous to communicate your skill To those that need it . Folly is soon learned : And under such preceptors who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , The ...
... crown ! – ' Tis generous to communicate your skill To those that need it . Folly is soon learned : And under such preceptors who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , The ...
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... crown us , but to fly is safe . Had I the choice of sublunary good , 685 What could I wish that I possess not here ? 690 Health , leisure , means to improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering muse , And ...
... crown us , but to fly is safe . Had I the choice of sublunary good , 685 What could I wish that I possess not here ? 690 Health , leisure , means to improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering muse , And ...
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... crown thee King of intimate delights , Fireside enjoyments , home - born happiness , And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement , and the hours . 135 140 Of long uninterrupted evening know . No rattling wheels ...
... crown thee King of intimate delights , Fireside enjoyments , home - born happiness , And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement , and the hours . 135 140 Of long uninterrupted evening know . No rattling wheels ...
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admire Æneid ALEXANDER SELKIRK Beau marked beauty beneath blank verse boast Book breath called cause CHARLES LAPWORTH charms clime Cowper Crown 8vo death delight divine dream earth ease English fair fancy Fcap fear feel Fettes College flower folly Gilpin gives glory grace hand happy hast heard heart heaven honour human John Gilpin king labour land light live lost lyre Milton mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night numbers o'er once Paradise Lost peace perhaps pleasure poem poet praise proud rude rural scene seek seems shade shine silent sleep smile smooth Sofa song soon soul sound storm sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thought toil truth Twas University of Aberdeen Unwin verse virtue Warren Hastings William Blackwood wind winter wisdom wonder worth ΙΟ
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Página 252 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 166 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 80 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 175 - GOD moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will.
Página 194 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 176 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
Página 271 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Página 166 - Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly, as the precept were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she.
Página 193 - I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 167 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...