A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volum 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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Side 10
... praise . Brave minds , howe'er at war , are fecret friends , Their gen'rous difcord with the battle ends In peace they wonder whence diffention rofe , And afk how fouls fo like could e'er be foes . I Methinks Methinks I hear more ...
... praise . Brave minds , howe'er at war , are fecret friends , Their gen'rous difcord with the battle ends In peace they wonder whence diffention rofe , And afk how fouls fo like could e'er be foes . I Methinks Methinks I hear more ...
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... prize of useful arts he bore , And round his empire spread the learned store , ( T ' adorn old realms is more than new to raise , His country's parent is a monarch's praise . ) His His bands now march in just array to war , ( 16 )
... prize of useful arts he bore , And round his empire spread the learned store , ( T ' adorn old realms is more than new to raise , His country's parent is a monarch's praise . ) His His bands now march in just array to war , ( 16 )
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... Britain pays , So patriots merit , and fo monarchs praise . O'er diftant times fuch records fhall prevail , When English numbers , antiquated , fail : } A trifling A trifling fong the Mufe can only yield , And ( 18 )
... Britain pays , So patriots merit , and fo monarchs praise . O'er diftant times fuch records fhall prevail , When English numbers , antiquated , fail : } A trifling A trifling fong the Mufe can only yield , And ( 18 )
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... praises fhall his STRAFFORD'S join : He too , from whom attentive OXFORD draws Rules for just thinking , and poetic laws ... praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Ifis rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster'd ...
... praises fhall his STRAFFORD'S join : He too , from whom attentive OXFORD draws Rules for just thinking , and poetic laws ... praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Ifis rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster'd ...
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... praise we , prodigal of fame , The rage that fets the world on flame ? My guiltless Mufe his brow fhall bind Whofe godlike bounty spares mankind : For thofe , whom bloody garlands crown , The brass may breathe , the marble frown ; To ...
... praise we , prodigal of fame , The rage that fets the world on flame ? My guiltless Mufe his brow fhall bind Whofe godlike bounty spares mankind : For thofe , whom bloody garlands crown , The brass may breathe , the marble frown ; To ...
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Side 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Side 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Side 215 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Side 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Side 209 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Side 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Side 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Side 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Side 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Side 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.