A Collection of PoemsJ.Hughs, for] R.and J.Dodsley, 1758 |
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... pow'r half Europe's regions own , Whose scepter waving , with one shout rush forth In fwarms the harnafs'd millions of the north ; Through realms of ice purfu'd his tedious way , To court our friendship , and our fame furvey ! Hence the ...
... pow'r half Europe's regions own , Whose scepter waving , with one shout rush forth In fwarms the harnafs'd millions of the north ; Through realms of ice purfu'd his tedious way , To court our friendship , and our fame furvey ! Hence the ...
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... pow'r ! O virtuous pride in kings ! And like his bounty , whence dominion springs ! Which o'er new worlds makes heaven's indulgence shine , And ranges myriads under laws divine ! Well bought with all that those sweet regions hold , With ...
... pow'r ! O virtuous pride in kings ! And like his bounty , whence dominion springs ! Which o'er new worlds makes heaven's indulgence shine , And ranges myriads under laws divine ! Well bought with all that those sweet regions hold , With ...
Page 110
... pow'r ; Your eager eyes her lovely form devour ; You feel the poifon fwelling in your breast , And all your foul by fond defire poffefs'd . In dying fighs a long three hours are past ; To fome affembly with impatient hafte , With ...
... pow'r ; Your eager eyes her lovely form devour ; You feel the poifon fwelling in your breast , And all your foul by fond defire poffefs'd . In dying fighs a long three hours are past ; To fome affembly with impatient hafte , With ...
Page 112
... pow'r ? Their every wish was in this Mary seen , Gay , witty , youthful , beauteous , and a queen . Vain useless bleffings with ill conduct join'd ! Light as the air , and fleeting as the wind . Whatever poets write , and lovers vow ...
... pow'r ? Their every wish was in this Mary seen , Gay , witty , youthful , beauteous , and a queen . Vain useless bleffings with ill conduct join'd ! Light as the air , and fleeting as the wind . Whatever poets write , and lovers vow ...
Page 113
... pow'r . The traveller by defart wolves purfu'd If by his art the favage foe's fubdu'd , The world will ftill the noble act applaud , Tho ' victory was gain'd by needful fraud . Such is , my tender fex , our helpless case ; And fuch the ...
... pow'r . The traveller by defart wolves purfu'd If by his art the favage foe's fubdu'd , The world will ftill the noble act applaud , Tho ' victory was gain'd by needful fraud . Such is , my tender fex , our helpless case ; And fuch the ...
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Page 216 - Below me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes: The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Page 202 - The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 194 - 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.
Page 326 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 187 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 200 - 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.
Page 325 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 23 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
Page 25 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Page 140 - Invite, and contemplation aid: Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate The dark decrees and will of fate, And dreams beneath the spreading beech Inspire, and docile fancy teach; While soft as breezy breath of wind, Impulses rustle through the mind: Here Dryads, scorning Phoebus