The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 sider |
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... death , in 1756 , came to his relief . After his return from France , the writer of this cha- racter paid him a visit at Islington , where he was wait- ing for his sister , whom he had directed to meet him : there was then nothing of ...
... death , in 1756 , came to his relief . After his return from France , the writer of this cha- racter paid him a visit at Islington , where he was wait- ing for his sister , whom he had directed to meet him : there was then nothing of ...
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... death ; and , with the usual weakness of men so diseased , eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce . But his health continually declined , and he grew more and more burthensome to ...
... death ; and , with the usual weakness of men so diseased , eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce . But his health continually declined , and he grew more and more burthensome to ...
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... Death with shrieks directs their way , Fills the wild yell , and leads them to their prey . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! At that dread hour the silent asp shall creep , If ...
... Death with shrieks directs their way , Fills the wild yell , and leads them to their prey . Sad was the hour , and luckless was the day , When first from Schiraz ' walls I bent my way ! At that dread hour the silent asp shall creep , If ...
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... death inured , and nursed in scenes of woe . ' He said when loud along the vale was heard A shriller shriek , and nearer fires appear'd . Th ' affrighted shepherds through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their ...
... death inured , and nursed in scenes of woe . ' He said when loud along the vale was heard A shriller shriek , and nearer fires appear'd . Th ' affrighted shepherds through the dews of night , Wide o'er the moonlight hills renew'd their ...
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... Death of Colonel Charles Ross , in the Action at Fontenoy Written May , 1745 . WHILE , lost to all his former mirth , Britannia's genius bends to earth , And mourns the fatal day ; While stain'd with blood he strives to tear , Unseemly ...
... Death of Colonel Charles Ross , in the Action at Fontenoy Written May , 1745 . WHILE , lost to all his former mirth , Britannia's genius bends to earth , And mourns the fatal day ; While stain'd with blood he strives to tear , Unseemly ...
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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.