Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected and Arranged in Six VolumesJ. Roach, 1792 |
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Pàgina 10
... ftate ! Why do you hide the fecrets of your fate ? -all fhall diffolve , And like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion , Leave not a wreck behind . SHAKESPEAR All , all on earth is fhadow , all beyond Is fubftance- YOUNG . Nor Nor tell your ...
... ftate ! Why do you hide the fecrets of your fate ? -all fhall diffolve , And like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion , Leave not a wreck behind . SHAKESPEAR All , all on earth is fhadow , all beyond Is fubftance- YOUNG . Nor Nor tell your ...
Pàgina 17
... ftate ; many of the purfuits of men in general here be- low , together with the vanity and emptiness of every earth- ly pleafure and enjoyment , are herein pourtrayed in the moft lively and ftriking colours ; well deferving the ...
... ftate ; many of the purfuits of men in general here be- low , together with the vanity and emptiness of every earth- ly pleafure and enjoyment , are herein pourtrayed in the moft lively and ftriking colours ; well deferving the ...
Pàgina 24
... ftate ! But fee ! the well - plum'd hearse comes nodding on Stately and flow ; and properly attended By the whole fable tribe , that painful watch The fickman's door , and live upon the dead , By letting out their perfons by the hour To ...
... ftate ! But fee ! the well - plum'd hearse comes nodding on Stately and flow ; and properly attended By the whole fable tribe , that painful watch The fickman's door , and live upon the dead , By letting out their perfons by the hour To ...
Pàgina 34
... ftate , Perplext with doubts and ignorant of fate ; This one important truth we only know , Blifs waits the good ; the bad , eternal woe . But what that blifs , or what that woe fhall be , Thro ' life's dull cafement fince no eye can ...
... ftate , Perplext with doubts and ignorant of fate ; This one important truth we only know , Blifs waits the good ; the bad , eternal woe . But what that blifs , or what that woe fhall be , Thro ' life's dull cafement fince no eye can ...
Pàgina 35
... ftate , by dreadful forebodings and diftreffing fears . + Seif murder being fo unnatural a crime , is ge- nerally reckoned the effect of infanity , and brought in non compos mentis . Juft Juft reeking from felf flaughter in a rage To ...
... ftate , by dreadful forebodings and diftreffing fears . + Seif murder being fo unnatural a crime , is ge- nerally reckoned the effect of infanity , and brought in non compos mentis . Juft Juft reeking from felf flaughter in a rage To ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abelard arms beauteous befide Bertram bleffings blefs'd bleft blifs bofom breaft BRINKBURN Priory caft charms clofe dæmon death defire diff'rent duft Emma Emma's ev'n ev'ry eyes facred fafe faid fair falfe fame fate fear fecret feek fhade fhall fhare fhine fhould fide fighs filence firft fkies flame fleep fmiling foft folemn fome fond fons foon forrow foul fpread frike ftands ftate fteps ftill ftream fuch fwain fweet grave guife heart Heaven Henry Hermit juft laft lefs loft lord lov'd maid manfion mankind mind mofs muft muſt ne'er night Northumberland Nut-brown Maid o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH paffion pain PERCY pleaſure pow'r praife pray'r pride raiſe Reafon reft rife rofe round tears thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro toil tomb truth uſe virtue wand'ring Warkworth wealth weep Whilft whofe wretch young youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 55 - 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 the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pàgina 58 - 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.
Pàgina 14 - And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's...
Pàgina 2 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Pàgina 16 - Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Pàgina 60 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Pàgina 5 - I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw...
Pàgina 24 - Now sunk the sun ; the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober...
Pàgina 38 - While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind: As in those domes, where...
Pàgina 54 - Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.