A Collection of Poems ...Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1758 |
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Side 6
... flame , But glory'd in a happy captive's name ; Nor wou'd I now , cou'd Love permit , be free , But leave to brutes their favage liberty . And art thou then , fond fwain , fecure of joy ? Can no reverse thy flatt'ring bliss destroy ...
... flame , But glory'd in a happy captive's name ; Nor wou'd I now , cou'd Love permit , be free , But leave to brutes their favage liberty . And art thou then , fond fwain , fecure of joy ? Can no reverse thy flatt'ring bliss destroy ...
Side 8
... flame , And let her often hear her fhepherd's name ; Shade all my faults from her enquiring fight , And fhew my merits in the fairest light ; My pipe your kind assistance shall repay , And ev'ry friend shall claim a diff'rent lay . But ...
... flame , And let her often hear her fhepherd's name ; Shade all my faults from her enquiring fight , And fhew my merits in the fairest light ; My pipe your kind assistance shall repay , And ev'ry friend shall claim a diff'rent lay . But ...
Side 14
... flame ; Two milk - white doves he on their altar laid , And thus to both his grateful homage paid : Hail , bounteous god , before whofe hallow'd shrine My Delia vow'd to be for ever mine , While glowing in her cheeks , with tender love ...
... flame ; Two milk - white doves he on their altar laid , And thus to both his grateful homage paid : Hail , bounteous god , before whofe hallow'd shrine My Delia vow'd to be for ever mine , While glowing in her cheeks , with tender love ...
Side 43
... selfish heart , that but by halves is giv❜n , Shall find no place in Love's delightful heav'n ; Here sweet extremes alone can truly bless . The virtue of a lover is excess . A maid A maid unafk'd may own a well - plac'd flame [ 43 ]
... selfish heart , that but by halves is giv❜n , Shall find no place in Love's delightful heav'n ; Here sweet extremes alone can truly bless . The virtue of a lover is excess . A maid A maid unafk'd may own a well - plac'd flame [ 43 ]
Side 44
... flame , Not loving first , but loving wrong is fhame . Contemn the little pride of giving pain , Nor think that conqueft juftifies difdain ; Short is the period of infulting Pow'r ; Offended Cupid finds his vengeful hour , Soon will ...
... flame , Not loving first , but loving wrong is fhame . Contemn the little pride of giving pain , Nor think that conqueft juftifies difdain ; Short is the period of infulting Pow'r ; Offended Cupid finds his vengeful hour , Soon will ...
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ARCHIMAGE bards Bavius beſt bleft blifs bluſh boaſt bofom breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms cou'd defire Delia delight difdain Druids eaſe Edward EPIGRAM erft Ev'n ev'ry eyes facred fage fair falfe fame fenfe fhade fhall fhine fing firft firſt flame flave flow'ry fmiles foft fome fong fons foon footh form'd foul fov'reign fpirit ftill ftream fuch fure fweet GARTER gen'rous glorious glory heart heav'n heav'nly honour immortal infpire juft juftice king lefs loft lov'd lyre mind moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt nature's o'er paffion pain pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride prince publick rage raiſe reafon reft rife ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhould sk sk ſmile ſpread ſpring ſtate ſtill ſtore ſweet thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thro throne toils train truth uſe verſe vex'd virtue virtue's whofe whoſe wife wiſdom wiſh wou'd
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Side 269 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Side 267 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
Side 79 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove...
Side 265 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Side 264 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Side 46 - Tell me, my heart, if this be love? If she some other youth commend, Though I was once his fondest friend, His instant enemy I prove: Tell me, my heart, if this be love?
Side 37 - To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre, If high exalted on the Throne of Wit, Near Me and Homer thou afpire to...
Side 70 - VII. Where were ye, Mufes, when relentlefs fate From thefe fond arms your fair difciple tore, From thefe fond arms that vainly ftrove With haplefs...
Side 2 - Damon came, unknowing where he ftray'd, Full of the image of his beauteous maid : His flock far off, unfed, untended lay, To ev'ry favage a defencelefs prey ; No fenfe of int'reft could their matter move, And ev'ry care feem'd trifling now but Love. Awhile in penfive filence he remain'd> But tho...
Side 43 - Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.