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Side 6
... shew their gayly - gilded trim Quick - glancing to the sun.3 To Contemplation's sober eye1 Such is the race of Man : 32 1 " How low , how indigent the proud , How little are the great ! " So these lines appeared in Dodsley . The ...
... shew their gayly - gilded trim Quick - glancing to the sun.3 To Contemplation's sober eye1 Such is the race of Man : 32 1 " How low , how indigent the proud , How little are the great ! " So these lines appeared in Dodsley . The ...
Side 19
... shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah , tell them , they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear , The vulturs of the mind , Disdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that sculks behind ; Or ...
... shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah , tell them , they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear , The vulturs of the mind , Disdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that sculks behind ; Or ...
Side 89
... to mere civility ; Her air and all her manners shew it . Commend me to her affability ! Speak to a Commoner and Poet ! " 1 A famous Highwayman hang'd the week before . - [ Gray . ] [ Here 500 Stanzas are lost . ] And so A LONG STORY . 89.
... to mere civility ; Her air and all her manners shew it . Commend me to her affability ! Speak to a Commoner and Poet ! " 1 A famous Highwayman hang'd the week before . - [ Gray . ] [ Here 500 Stanzas are lost . ] And so A LONG STORY . 89.
Side 104
... the blaze of greatness ; Shew'd him where empire tower'd , and bade him strike The noble quarry . Gods ! then was the time To shrink from danger ; fear might then have worn The mask of prudence ; but a heart like mine 104 POEMS .
... the blaze of greatness ; Shew'd him where empire tower'd , and bade him strike The noble quarry . Gods ! then was the time To shrink from danger ; fear might then have worn The mask of prudence ; but a heart like mine 104 POEMS .
Side 254
... shew it is alive , reflecting rocks , woods , fields , and inverted tops of mountains , with the white buildings of Keswick , Crosthwait church , and Skiddaw for a back ground at a distance . Oh ! Doctor ! I never wished more for you ...
... shew it is alive , reflecting rocks , woods , fields , and inverted tops of mountains , with the white buildings of Keswick , Crosthwait church , and Skiddaw for a back ground at a distance . Oh ! Doctor ! I never wished more for you ...
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Side 221 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 220 - 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 17 - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way...
Side 75 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Side 18 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace...
Side 76 - Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton, here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 125 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Side 79 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 232 - He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 11 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause.