The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair, Lloyd, Green, Byrom, Dodsley, Chatterton, Cooper, Smollett, HamiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Pride .... The Beggar and the Divine ib . 278 Fragment of an Hynın on the Goodness of Godib Universal Good the Object of the divine Will , and Evil the necessary Effect of the Crea- ture's Opposition to it ....... A Prayer , used by ...
... Pride .... The Beggar and the Divine ib . 278 Fragment of an Hynın on the Goodness of Godib Universal Good the Object of the divine Will , and Evil the necessary Effect of the Crea- ture's Opposition to it ....... A Prayer , used by ...
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... pride possessing , Ever loving and caressing , Music moving , Bliss improving ! - He'll enjoy a heav'n below ! Happy he , beyond expressing ? THE DESPAIRING MAIDEN . WITHIN on unfrequented grove As late I laid alone , A tender maid in ...
... pride possessing , Ever loving and caressing , Music moving , Bliss improving ! - He'll enjoy a heav'n below ! Happy he , beyond expressing ? THE DESPAIRING MAIDEN . WITHIN on unfrequented grove As late I laid alone , A tender maid in ...
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... pride of beauty , May , To gladden Earth , forsakes her heav'nly bow'rs , Restoring Nature from her palsy'd state . April , retire ; ne longer , Nature , wait : Love - sick with odours ! -Now to order roll'd , It melts upon her bosom's ...
... pride of beauty , May , To gladden Earth , forsakes her heav'nly bow'rs , Restoring Nature from her palsy'd state . April , retire ; ne longer , Nature , wait : Love - sick with odours ! -Now to order roll'd , It melts upon her bosom's ...
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... pride of youth and beauty drest , O think , lanthe , cruel Time lays waste The roses of the cheek , the lilies of the breast . Weep not ; but , rather taught by this , improve The present freshness of thy springing prime : Bestow thy ...
... pride of youth and beauty drest , O think , lanthe , cruel Time lays waste The roses of the cheek , the lilies of the breast . Weep not ; but , rather taught by this , improve The present freshness of thy springing prime : Bestow thy ...
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... pride , He cloth'd the naked , and the hungry fed ; If e'er distress , and misery , forlorn , Deceiv'd his cheek , and stole his untaught tear , An humble drop of thy celestial dew ! Hear , Mercy , sweetest daughter of the skies ...
... pride , He cloth'd the naked , and the hungry fed ; If e'er distress , and misery , forlorn , Deceiv'd his cheek , and stole his untaught tear , An humble drop of thy celestial dew ! Hear , Mercy , sweetest daughter of the skies ...
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Page 138 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 139 - 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.
Page 46 - Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Page 138 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 138 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 137 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 138 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 53 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 138 - Th" applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 216 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.