A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Granville. YaldenJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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Side 20
... first receiv'd a guest ) ; Slow creeking turns the door with jealous care , And half he welcomes in the fhivering pair ; One frugal faggot lights the naked walls , And nature's fervour through their limbs recalls : Bread of the coarseft ...
... first receiv'd a guest ) ; Slow creeking turns the door with jealous care , And half he welcomes in the fhivering pair ; One frugal faggot lights the naked walls , And nature's fervour through their limbs recalls : Bread of the coarseft ...
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... first task the bounds of power to know ; The bounds once paft , it holds the fame no more , Its nature alters , which it own'd before , Nor were fubmiffion humbleness exprest , But all a low idolatry at best . Power from above ...
... first task the bounds of power to know ; The bounds once paft , it holds the fame no more , Its nature alters , which it own'd before , Nor were fubmiffion humbleness exprest , But all a low idolatry at best . Power from above ...
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... first , with ruffled drefs appears , Feels her whole fex return , and bathes with tears . The jealous Procris wipes a seeming wound , Whofe trickling crimson dyes the bushy ground ; Knows the fad fhaft , and calls before she go , To ...
... first , with ruffled drefs appears , Feels her whole fex return , and bathes with tears . The jealous Procris wipes a seeming wound , Whofe trickling crimson dyes the bushy ground ; Knows the fad fhaft , and calls before she go , To ...
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... first that the poets made ufe of . Hence arofe many of those ftories concerning the heathen gods , which at first were invented to infinuate truth and morali- ty more pleafingly , and which afterwards made poetry itself more folemn ...
... first that the poets made ufe of . Hence arofe many of those ftories concerning the heathen gods , which at first were invented to infinuate truth and morali- ty more pleafingly , and which afterwards made poetry itself more folemn ...
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... first effay . So the young cagle , that his force would try , Faces the fun , and towers it to the fky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at first , at length they faintly pleafe ; And ftill , whate'er their firft efforts ...
... first effay . So the young cagle , that his force would try , Faces the fun , and towers it to the fky . Others proceed to art by flow degrees , Aukward at first , at length they faintly pleafe ; And ftill , whate'er their firft efforts ...
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Side 5 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Side 295 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Side 310 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Side 472 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Side 211 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Side 237 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Side 130 - Then to her new love let her go, And deck her in golden array, Be finest at...
Side 414 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
Side 224 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng"d legions, and charge home upon him.
Side 6 - Now sunk the sun ; the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober...