The poetical works of William Collins, with critical observations by dr. LanghorneSuttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1815 - 96 sider |
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... poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tel !; ' Tis virtue makes the ...
... poet's lays , And hear how shepherds pass their golden days . Not all are blest whom Fortune's hand sustains With wealth in courts ; nor all that haunt the plains : Well may your hearts believe the truths I tel !; ' Tis virtue makes the ...
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... poet's flame , But reach'd from Virtue's hand the patriot's steel . But who is he whom later garlands grace ; Who left a while o'er Hybla's dews to rove , With trembling eyes thy dreary steps to trace , Where thou and furies shar'd the ...
... poet's flame , But reach'd from Virtue's hand the patriot's steel . But who is he whom later garlands grace ; Who left a while o'er Hybla's dews to rove , With trembling eyes thy dreary steps to trace , Where thou and furies shar'd the ...
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... poet's ear : By old Cephisus deep , Who spread his wavy sweep , In warbled wanderings , round thy green retreat ; On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allur'd thy future feet . * The andwv , or nightingale ...
... poet's ear : By old Cephisus deep , Who spread his wavy sweep , In warbled wanderings , round thy green retreat ; On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allur'd thy future feet . * The andwv , or nightingale ...
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... Poet now unfold What never tongue or numbers told ? How learn delighted , and amaz'd , What hands unknown that fabric rais'd ? E'en now before his favour'd eyes , In gothic pride it seems to rise ! Yet Græcia's graceful orders join ...
... Poet now unfold What never tongue or numbers told ? How learn delighted , and amaz'd , What hands unknown that fabric rais'd ? E'en now before his favour'd eyes , In gothic pride it seems to rise ! Yet Græcia's graceful orders join ...
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... poet's lays , While nurs'd by you she sees her myrtles bloom , Green and unwither'd o'er his honour'd tomb Excuse her doubts , if yet she fears to tell What secret transports in her bosom swell . With conscious awe she hears the ...
... poet's lays , While nurs'd by you she sees her myrtles bloom , Green and unwither'd o'er his honour'd tomb Excuse her doubts , if yet she fears to tell What secret transports in her bosom swell . With conscious awe she hears the ...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins, with Critical Observations by Dr ... William Collins Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2015 |
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Abra lov'd AGIB allegorical imagery ANTISTROPHE bard blank verse blast blest boast breathe Brownie charm Circassia Collins Cymbeline death delight drest E'en e'er EPODE Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fairy Fancy Fear fix'd flowers fond genius Georgian maid golden hair Greece green grief grove hail hallow'd hand happy harmony haste haunt hear heard heart Hebrides hour isle John Home lubber fiend luckless lyre lyric magic maid like Abra midst Milesian Miletus mind moral mountains mourn murmurs Muse myrtles native nature Ne'er numbers Nymph o'er Oriental Eclogues passions pastoral Peace Pity Pity's plain poems poet poet's poetical pour'd pride rage round rural scene Schiraz SECANDER sentiment shade shepherds shore sighs Sir Thomas Hanmer soft song Sophocles sounds strain sullen sung swain sweet tears tender thee Theocritus thou thought toil truth vale verse virtue voice of peace western isle wild
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Side 53 - Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Side 52 - No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Side 29 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Side 23 - What mortal eye can fix'd behold ! Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep...
Side 44 - Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings, In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings.
Side 6 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics...
Side 52 - midst the chase, on every plain, The tender thought on thee shall dwell ; Each lonely scene shall thee restore ; For thee the tear be duly shed ; Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead.
Side 15 - I view his printed feet; And fearful oft when Day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night, By hunger...
Side 54 - No sedge-crown'd sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side Whose cold turf hides the buried friend...
Side 43 - O Nature boon, from whom proceed Each forceful Thought, each prompted Deed If but from Thee I hope to feel, On all my Heart imprint thy Seal...