The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 23. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... wonder , and transcend our praise ? Can neither injuries of time , or age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not fo thy Ovid in his exile wrote , Grief chill'd his breaft , and check'd his rifing thought : Penfive and fad ...
... wonder , and transcend our praise ? Can neither injuries of time , or age , Damp thy poetic heat , and quench thy rage ? Not fo thy Ovid in his exile wrote , Grief chill'd his breaft , and check'd his rifing thought : Penfive and fad ...
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... wonder fill the bleft , In choirs of warbling feraphims Known and distinguish'd from the rest ; Attend , harmonious saint , and fee Thy vocal fons of harmony ; Attend , harmonious faint , and hear our prayers ; Enliven all our earthly ...
... wonder fill the bleft , In choirs of warbling feraphims Known and distinguish'd from the rest ; Attend , harmonious saint , and fee Thy vocal fons of harmony ; Attend , harmonious faint , and hear our prayers ; Enliven all our earthly ...
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... wonder , but new wonders rife . As in the milky - way a fhining white O'erflows the heavens with one continued light ; That not a single star can fhew his rays , Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I ...
... wonder , but new wonders rife . As in the milky - way a fhining white O'erflows the heavens with one continued light ; That not a single star can fhew his rays , Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I ...
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... wonder , but new wonders rife . As in the milky - way a fhining white O'erflows the heavens with one continued light ; That not a fingle ftar can fhew his rays , Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I ...
... wonder , but new wonders rife . As in the milky - way a fhining white O'erflows the heavens with one continued light ; That not a fingle ftar can fhew his rays , Whilft jointly all promote the common blaze . Pardon , great Poet , that I ...
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... wonder loft , And factions strive who shall applaud them most . Soon as foft vernal breezes warm the íky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Croffing the provinces himself had won , Till ...
... wonder loft , And factions strive who shall applaud them most . Soon as foft vernal breezes warm the íky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her chief already has his march begun , Croffing the provinces himself had won , Till ...
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Page 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Page 295 - 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.
Page 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Page 41 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Page 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Page 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Page 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Page 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Page 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.