A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volum 4Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1765 |
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Side 7
... hour . The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Mem❜ry o'er their Tomb no Trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn ifle and fretted vault The pealing anthem fwells the note ...
... hour . The paths of glory lead but to the grave . Nor you , ye Proud , impute to These the fault , If Mem❜ry o'er their Tomb no Trophies raise , Where through the long - drawn ifle and fretted vault The pealing anthem fwells the note ...
Side 12
... hour The Bad affright , afflict the Beft ! · Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain , And purple tyrants vainly grcan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When When first thy Sire to fend on earth ...
... hour The Bad affright , afflict the Beft ! · Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain , And purple tyrants vainly grcan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone . When When first thy Sire to fend on earth ...
Side 31
... hours they XXXIV . Others of rich and noble lineage bred , [ wafte . Though with the crowd to pass the flood constrain'd , Yet o'er the crags with fond indulgence led By hireling guides and in all depths sustain❜d , Skimm'd lightly o ...
... hours they XXXIV . Others of rich and noble lineage bred , [ wafte . Though with the crowd to pass the flood constrain'd , Yet o'er the crags with fond indulgence led By hireling guides and in all depths sustain❜d , Skimm'd lightly o ...
Side 42
... Debauch , and luftful Play , Spent on ignoble toils their active pow'rs , And with untimely blasts difeas'd their vernal hours . b Hefts , behefts , precepts , commands . LXI . Ev'n LXI . Ev'n they , to whom kind Nature did ( 42 )
... Debauch , and luftful Play , Spent on ignoble toils their active pow'rs , And with untimely blasts difeas'd their vernal hours . b Hefts , behefts , precepts , commands . LXI . Ev'n LXI . Ev'n they , to whom kind Nature did ( 42 )
Side 44
... hours Scarce ended ; and again with dewy night , In cover'd theatres , or leafy bow'rs Offering her evening - vows to Pleasure's joyous pow'rs . LXIV . And ever on the way mote he espy Men , women , children , a promifcuous throng Of ...
... hours Scarce ended ; and again with dewy night , In cover'd theatres , or leafy bow'rs Offering her evening - vows to Pleasure's joyous pow'rs . LXIV . And ever on the way mote he espy Men , women , children , a promifcuous throng Of ...
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Side 6 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Side 11 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; 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 church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Side 176 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Side 390 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Side 177 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Side 8 - Lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues, but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a Throne, And...
Side 168 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Side 10 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Side 282 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Side 172 - To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And Detestation rids th