The task, and minor poems [ed.] by E. Lee1900 |
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... smiling , in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame , 80 By soft recumbency of outstretched limbs , Was bliss reserved for happier days ; -so slow The growth of what is excellent , so hard To attain perfection in this ...
... smiling , in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame , 80 By soft recumbency of outstretched limbs , Was bliss reserved for happier days ; -so slow The growth of what is excellent , so hard To attain perfection in this ...
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... smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature ...
... smiles , descends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature ...
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... smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack , that bows the bearer down . BOOK I. 15 ...
... smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack , that bows the bearer down . BOOK I. 15 ...
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... smiles , slides off Fastidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us , happy to renounce awhile , 515 Not senseless of its charms , what still ...
... smiles , slides off Fastidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us , happy to renounce awhile , 515 Not senseless of its charms , what still ...
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... smile , Can boast but little virtue : and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
... smile , Can boast but little virtue : and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
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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...