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The world , the clustering spheres he made , The glorious light , the soothing
shade Dale , champaign , grove and hill : The multitudinous abyss , Where
secresy remains in bliss , And wisdom hides her skill . Tell them , I AM , Jehovah
said To ...
The world , the clustering spheres he made , The glorious light , the soothing
shade Dale , champaign , grove and hill : The multitudinous abyss , Where
secresy remains in bliss , And wisdom hides her skill . Tell them , I AM , Jehovah
said To ...
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... AND LEARNED Away , thou hideous hell - born spright , Go , with thy looks of
dark design , Dr . WEBSTER , . Sullen , sour , and saturnine ; Occasioned by his
Dialogues on Anger and Por . Fly to some gloomy shade , por blot the goodly
light ...
... AND LEARNED Away , thou hideous hell - born spright , Go , with thy looks of
dark design , Dr . WEBSTER , . Sullen , sour , and saturnine ; Occasioned by his
Dialogues on Anger and Por . Fly to some gloomy shade , por blot the goodly
light ...
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Each mutual office cheerfully perform , And share alike the sunshine , and the
storm ; Descend , descend , ye sweet Aonian maids , And ever , as you flourish
hand in hand , Leave i he Parnassian shades , Both shade the shepherd and
adorn ...
Each mutual office cheerfully perform , And share alike the sunshine , and the
storm ; Descend , descend , ye sweet Aonian maids , And ever , as you flourish
hand in hand , Leave i he Parnassian shades , Both shade the shepherd and
adorn ...
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... shade , ! And wear the vestal in your heart . Sophron the wise was laid : When I
ask a kiss , or so And to the answ ' ring wood these sounds convey ' d : Grant it
with a begging nc , While others toil within the town , And let each rose that decks
...
... shade , ! And wear the vestal in your heart . Sophron the wise was laid : When I
ask a kiss , or so And to the answ ' ring wood these sounds convey ' d : Grant it
with a begging nc , While others toil within the town , And let each rose that decks
...
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Of crippled winter ' gins t ' advance , prepares But , if thy deaden ' d sense , and
listless thought Her annual flight , and in some poplar shade More glaring
evidence demand ; behold , | Takes her melodious leave , who then ' s her pilot ?
Of crippled winter ' gins t ' advance , prepares But , if thy deaden ' d sense , and
listless thought Her annual flight , and in some poplar shade More glaring
evidence demand ; behold , | Takes her melodious leave , who then ' s her pilot ?
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Adrastus appears arms band bear beauty breast character charms chief death deep divine Earth ev'ry eyes fair fall fame fate fear field fire flow flower force give glory gods golden grace grove hand head hear heart Heav'n hero honour hope hour human kind king land leave light live lord lost mind mountains Muse nature never night o'er once pain peace plain poem poet pow'r praise present pride rage reason rest rise rose round sacred sense shade shore side skies smile soft soon soul sound spread spring stand stood strain streams sweet tears thee things thou thought trembling true truth turn vain virtue voice warriors waves wild winds youth
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Page 78 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 493 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 95 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 492 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 492 - All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 492 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 500 - Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see, Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restor'd to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And ev'ry care resign: And shall we never, never part, My life, — my all that's mine. "No, never, from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 493 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 493 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 493 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson 16. köide of The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Alexander Chalmers 16. köide of Works of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper : in twenty-one volumes / S. Johnson; Alexander Chalmers |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 jaan. 2008 |
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