The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 sider |
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Side 10
... dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain That Love shall blind , when once he fires the ...
... dark within , they drink no lustrous light : Such are the maids , and such the charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain That Love shall blind , when once he fires the ...
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... Dark Power ! with shuddering , meek , submitted thought , Be mine to read the visions old , Which thy awakening bards have told And , lest thou meet my blasted view , Hold each strange tale devoutly true ; Ne'er be I found , by thee o ...
... Dark Power ! with shuddering , meek , submitted thought , Be mine to read the visions old , Which thy awakening bards have told And , lest thou meet my blasted view , Hold each strange tale devoutly true ; Ne'er be I found , by thee o ...
Side 54
... dark forest dwells : How they , whose sight such dreary dreams engross , With their own visions oft astonish'd droop'd , When , o'er the wat'ry strath or quaggy moss , They see the gliding ghosts ' unbodied troop ; Or , if in sports ...
... dark forest dwells : How they , whose sight such dreary dreams engross , With their own visions oft astonish'd droop'd , When , o'er the wat'ry strath or quaggy moss , They see the gliding ghosts ' unbodied troop ; Or , if in sports ...
Side 55
... dark The broad , unbroken billows heave and swell , In horrid musings wrapt , they sit to mark ' The lab'ring moon ... darkness shuts the eye of day , ' And shrouds each star that wont to cheer the night ; ' Or , if the drifted snow ...
... dark The broad , unbroken billows heave and swell , In horrid musings wrapt , they sit to mark ' The lab'ring moon ... darkness shuts the eye of day , ' And shrouds each star that wont to cheer the night ; ' Or , if the drifted snow ...
Side 56
... dark dell espied , His glimmering mazes cheer th ' excursive sight , Yet turn , ye wanderers , turn your steps aside , Nor trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For watchful , lurking , mid thʼ unrustling reed , At those murk ...
... dark dell espied , His glimmering mazes cheer th ' excursive sight , Yet turn , ye wanderers , turn your steps aside , Nor trust the guidance of that faithless light ; For watchful , lurking , mid thʼ unrustling reed , At those murk ...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each William Collins,Thomas Gray Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each William Collins Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
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Side 110 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Side 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Side 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Side 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Side 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Side 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Side 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Side 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Side 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Side 111 - 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.