PoemsSmith, 1830 - 451 sider |
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Side 4
... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring , and standing as if struck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ! If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be ...
... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring , and standing as if struck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ! If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be ...
Side 5
... play ) ; To win no praise when well - wrought plans prevail . But to be rudely censured when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His galleries ...
... play ) ; To win no praise when well - wrought plans prevail . But to be rudely censured when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His galleries ...
Side 8
... play the wanton with her powers , Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping every mound , Spread anarchy and terror all around ? B. Agreed . But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ? Or if , when ridden ...
... play the wanton with her powers , Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping every mound , Spread anarchy and terror all around ? B. Agreed . But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ? Or if , when ridden ...
Side 13
... play with syllables , and sport in song . A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where Discipline helps th ' opening buds of sense , And makes his pupils proud with silver pence , I was a poet ...
... play with syllables , and sport in song . A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where Discipline helps th ' opening buds of sense , And makes his pupils proud with silver pence , I was a poet ...
Side 14
... . Neglected talents rust into decay , And every effort ends in push - pin play . The man that means success , should soar above A soldier's feather , or a lady's glove ; Else , summoning the muse to such a theme , 14 TABLE TALK .
... . Neglected talents rust into decay , And every effort ends in push - pin play . The man that means success , should soar above A soldier's feather , or a lady's glove ; Else , summoning the muse to such a theme , 14 TABLE TALK .
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