The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetryC. Whittingham, 1806 - 304 oldal |
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25. oldal
... I overlive , own Why am I mock'd with death , and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence , and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest 25.
... I overlive , own Why am I mock'd with death , and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence , and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest 25.
36. oldal
... pain , their dusty way pursue , Shrill roar'd the winds , and dreary was the view ! With desp❜rate sorrow wild , th ' affrighted man Thrice sigh'd , thrice struck his breast , and thus began : " Sad was the hour , and luckless was the ...
... pain , their dusty way pursue , Shrill roar'd the winds , and dreary was the view ! With desp❜rate sorrow wild , th ' affrighted man Thrice sigh'd , thrice struck his breast , and thus began : " Sad was the hour , and luckless was the ...
43. oldal
... Painful pre - eminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness , and its comforts too . Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions , see to what they ' mount : How much of other each is sure to cost ; How ...
... Painful pre - eminence ! yourself to view Above life's weakness , and its comforts too . Bring then these blessings to a strict account ; Make fair deductions , see to what they ' mount : How much of other each is sure to cost ; How ...
45. oldal
... pain : Without satiety , though e'er so blest , And but more relish'd as the more distrest ; The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears , Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears . Good , from each object , from each place acquir'd ...
... pain : Without satiety , though e'er so blest , And but more relish'd as the more distrest ; The broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears , Less pleasing far than virtue's very tears . Good , from each object , from each place acquir'd ...
79. oldal
... , Thy bounty shall my pains beguile ; The barren wilderness shall smile , With sudden greens and herbage crown'd , And streams shall murmur all around . CARDINAL WOLSEY's LAMENTATION OF HIS FALL . SHAKSPEARE . FAREWELL 79.
... , Thy bounty shall my pains beguile ; The barren wilderness shall smile , With sudden greens and herbage crown'd , And streams shall murmur all around . CARDINAL WOLSEY's LAMENTATION OF HIS FALL . SHAKSPEARE . FAREWELL 79.
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angels behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom bosom bow'rs breast breath bright charms cherub clime clouds crown'd darkness death deep divine dreadful dust e'er earth eternal ev'n ev'ry ev❜n eyes fair faithless fame fate fix'd flame flow'rs gloom glory golden grace grave GRONGAR HILL hand happy hast heart heaven hermit hill horrors hour land light liquid sky live LORD lyre mighty mind MONODY morn mortal Muse nature's ne'er night o'er pain patriot war peace Petrarch Pindus plain pleas'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rais'd rise round sacred scene seraph shade shine sight silent skies smile soft solemn song soul sound spread spring swain sweet SWEET Auburn swell tears tempest thee thine thou thought thro throne toil trembling Twas vale virtue voice waking eyes wand'ring waves Whilst wild winds wings wretch
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19. oldal - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end ! Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
94. oldal - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
78. oldal - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
90. oldal - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
92. oldal - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
95. oldal - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth, His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
89. oldal - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
147. oldal - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
26. oldal - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
145. oldal - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...