Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... learn'd or brave : Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) 195 The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd ; Reason the bias turns to good ...
... learn'd or brave : Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) 195 The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd ; Reason the bias turns to good ...
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... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero ...
... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero ...
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... learn'd justice and benevolence : 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu'd , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studious head or gen'rous mind , Follow'r of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or ...
... learn'd justice and benevolence : 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu'd , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studious head or gen'rous mind , Follow'r of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or ...
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... learn'd are blind , This bids to serve , and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to ...
... learn'd are blind , This bids to serve , and that to shun mankind : Some place the bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these ; Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to ...
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... learn'd as you are , and as close . Death's shafts fly thick Here falls the village swain , And there his pamper'd lord . - The cup goes round , And who so artful as to put it by ? ' Tis long since death had the majority ; Yet strange ...
... learn'd as you are , and as close . Death's shafts fly thick Here falls the village swain , And there his pamper'd lord . - The cup goes round , And who so artful as to put it by ? ' Tis long since death had the majority ; Yet strange ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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Side 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Side 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Side 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Side 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Side 18 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Side 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Side 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Side 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Side 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Side 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...