PoemsJ. Murray, 1778 - 158 pages |
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... nature , the pub- lisher could hardly give credit . The practice of taking extracts from publications of all kinds is * Mr. Mason claims , besides the above , Ode for Mufic , irregular ; which were he to obtain the property of , would ...
... nature , the pub- lisher could hardly give credit . The practice of taking extracts from publications of all kinds is * Mr. Mason claims , besides the above , Ode for Mufic , irregular ; which were he to obtain the property of , would ...
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... nature inducing him not to give them uneafinefs , by too fudden a declaration of the ftate of his mind , he went to Cambridge , and took his Batchelor's degree in the Civil Law . The time he had paffed in his travels , the intense ...
... nature inducing him not to give them uneafinefs , by too fudden a declaration of the ftate of his mind , he went to Cambridge , and took his Batchelor's degree in the Civil Law . The time he had paffed in his travels , the intense ...
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... with addi- tional violence on the 30th ; and the evening after , this ingenious poet , and cultivated scholar , ceased to adorn Eng- land and human nature . THE THE LAST WILL and TESTAMENT OF MR . THOMAS GRAY XXIV A SHORT ACCOUNT , & c .
... with addi- tional violence on the 30th ; and the evening after , this ingenious poet , and cultivated scholar , ceased to adorn Eng- land and human nature . THE THE LAST WILL and TESTAMENT OF MR . THOMAS GRAY XXIV A SHORT ACCOUNT , & c .
Page xxvii
... natural life ; and after the decease of the faid Jane Olliffe , I give the said eftate to the faid Mary Antrobus , To Have and To Hold , to her , her heirs and affigns for ever . Further I bequeath to the faid Mary Antrobus the fum of ...
... natural life ; and after the decease of the faid Jane Olliffe , I give the said eftate to the faid Mary Antrobus , To Have and To Hold , to her , her heirs and affigns for ever . Further I bequeath to the faid Mary Antrobus the fum of ...
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... nature hears the lofty found , And Snowdon's airy cliffs the heavenly ftrains re- found . In pomp of ftate , behold they wait , With arms outstretch'd , and aspects kind , To fnatch on high to yonder sky , The child of fancy left behind ...
... nature hears the lofty found , And Snowdon's airy cliffs the heavenly ftrains re- found . In pomp of ftate , behold they wait , With arms outstretch'd , and aspects kind , To fnatch on high to yonder sky , The child of fancy left behind ...
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Page 46 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Page 93 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 147 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 149 - 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 61 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
Page 155 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 104 - Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep : they do not sleep ! On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Page 156 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 148 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 138 - OWEN's praise demands my song, OWEN swift, and OWEN strong; Fairest flower of Roderic's stem, * Gwyneth's shield, and Britain's gem. He nor heaps his brooded stores, Nor on all profusely pours; Lord of every regal art, Liberal hand, and open heart. Big with hosts of mighty name, Squadrons three against him came; This the force of Eirin hiding, Side by side as proudly riding, On her shadow long and gay * Lochlin plows...