Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected and Arranged ...J. Roach, 1793 - 240 pàgines |
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Pàgina 51
... bright prospect to be bleft , And strongest motive to affift the reft . Self - love thus pufh'd to focial , to divine , Gives thee to make thy neighbour's bleffing thine . Is this too little for the boundless heart ? Extend it , let thy ...
... bright prospect to be bleft , And strongest motive to affift the reft . Self - love thus pufh'd to focial , to divine , Gives thee to make thy neighbour's bleffing thine . Is this too little for the boundless heart ? Extend it , let thy ...
Pàgina 12
... Bright o'er his wave does Carron play , And foon fhe'll meet her Nithisdale She'll meet him foon - for at her fight Swift as the mountain deer he fpcd ; The evening fhades will fink in night , — Where art thou , loitering lover , fled ...
... Bright o'er his wave does Carron play , And foon fhe'll meet her Nithisdale She'll meet him foon - for at her fight Swift as the mountain deer he fpcd ; The evening fhades will fink in night , — Where art thou , loitering lover , fled ...
Pàgina 18
... Grecian painter's vell . O married love ! thy bard fhall own , Where two congenial fouls unite , Thy golden chain inlaid with down , Thy lamp with heaven's own fplendor bright . But But if no radiant ftar of love O Hymen fmile [ 18 ]
... Grecian painter's vell . O married love ! thy bard fhall own , Where two congenial fouls unite , Thy golden chain inlaid with down , Thy lamp with heaven's own fplendor bright . But But if no radiant ftar of love O Hymen fmile [ 18 ]
Pàgina 19
... bright That plays on Caron's breast he can , Reafon has lent her quivering light . And shewn the checquer'd field of man . XX . As the firft human heir of earth With penfive eye himself survey'd , And , all unconscious of his birth ...
... bright That plays on Caron's breast he can , Reafon has lent her quivering light . And shewn the checquer'd field of man . XX . As the firft human heir of earth With penfive eye himself survey'd , And , all unconscious of his birth ...
Pàgina 20
... bright that binds my arnı-- It could not come from shepherd's farm ; It only would that arm annoy , If I were but a fhepherd's boy . And , O thou filent picture fair , That lov't to fmile upon me there , O fay , and fill my heart with ...
... bright that binds my arnı-- It could not come from shepherd's farm ; It only would that arm annoy , If I were but a fhepherd's boy . And , O thou filent picture fair , That lov't to fmile upon me there , O fay , and fill my heart with ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
ALEXANDER POPE angels behold beneath BIRTHA bleffing bleft blifs bofom breaft caft charms crown'd death defcend diftant dreadful earth EDWARD YOUNG eternal ev'ry facred fair fame fate fcene fear fecond feem feen fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhine fhone fide figh filent fill fing firft fix'd fkies flain flame flate fleep flood flow fmile foft fome forrow foul fpreads frike ftill fuch funk fweet fwell glory grace GRONGAR HILL grove happineſs heart heav'n itſelf juft laft lefs loft Lord lyre mind mourn mufe mufic muft muſt nature nature's o'er paffion pain pale pallions Phaon pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife pride rage raiſe reafon reft rife rocks Sappho ſhall tears Theatre Royal thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro throne trembling Twas vaft vale virtue weft whofe youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 54 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. 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 59 - Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, (Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, — While organs yet were mute) Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Pàgina 27 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Pàgina 39 - Where grows ? — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Pàgina 50 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins Heaven and Earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, • All end in love of God, and love of man.
Pàgina 55 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Pàgina 26 - Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Pàgina 60 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Pàgina 57 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Pàgina 56 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...