Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas Tomkinseditor, and J. Wallis, 1780 - 204 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... Shall change again , and teach the change to please . Now friends converfing my soft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great . Or o'er ...
... Shall change again , and teach the change to please . Now friends converfing my soft hours refine , And Tully's Tufculum revives in mine : Now to grave books I bid the mind retreat , And fuch as make me rather good than great . Or o'er ...
Pàgina 10
... my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart , " Shall break thy Edwin's too . " HYMN TO HUMANITY . BY DR . LANGHORNE . 1 10 SELECT POEMS .
... my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart , " Shall break thy Edwin's too . " HYMN TO HUMANITY . BY DR . LANGHORNE . 1 10 SELECT POEMS .
Pàgina 17
... Shall never more delight the ravish'd ear ; But broke in fcatter'd fragments , ftrew the plain , And mourn the glories which it could not gain . He said , and as he faid , his foul on fire , With a difdainful air he struck the lyre ...
... Shall never more delight the ravish'd ear ; But broke in fcatter'd fragments , ftrew the plain , And mourn the glories which it could not gain . He said , and as he faid , his foul on fire , With a difdainful air he struck the lyre ...
Pàgina 27
... ifles , ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste as in the city full ! And where He vital breathes there must be joy . When even at laft the folemn hour shall come , C 2 SELECT POEMS . 27.
... ifles , ' tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present , ever felt , In the void waste as in the city full ! And where He vital breathes there must be joy . When even at laft the folemn hour shall come , C 2 SELECT POEMS . 27.
Pàgina 28
... shall come , And wing my mystic flight to future worlds , 1 cheerful will obey ; there with new powers Will rifing wonders fing . I cannot go Where Univerfal Love not fmiles around , Sustaining all yon ' orbs , and all their funs , From ...
... shall come , And wing my mystic flight to future worlds , 1 cheerful will obey ; there with new powers Will rifing wonders fing . I cannot go Where Univerfal Love not fmiles around , Sustaining all yon ' orbs , and all their funs , From ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 150 - 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 th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pàgina 81 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Pàgina 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Pàgina 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Pàgina 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Pàgina 99 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Pàgina 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Pàgina 149 - 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. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Pàgina 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.