A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Granville. YaldenJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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... falling , feem to fall away . A gely freihnefs hence the role receives , And bluthus fweet through all her filken leaves ( The dr . ps descending through the filent night , While ftars fcrenely roll their golden light ) : Clofe till the ...
... falling , feem to fall away . A gely freihnefs hence the role receives , And bluthus fweet through all her filken leaves ( The dr . ps descending through the filent night , While ftars fcrenely roll their golden light ) : Clofe till the ...
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... fall the wanton and the young : And fledg'd by geefe the weapons fly , When others love they know not why All his ( as late I chanc'd to rove ) I learn'd in yonder waving grove , And fee , fays love , who call'd me near , How much I ...
... fall the wanton and the young : And fledg'd by geefe the weapons fly , When others love they know not why All his ( as late I chanc'd to rove ) I learn'd in yonder waving grove , And fee , fays love , who call'd me near , How much I ...
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... falling , feem to fall away . A glefy fruhnefs hence the role receives , And bluthus fweet through all her filken leaves ( The drops defcending through the filent night , While ftars fcrenely roll their golden light ) : Clofe till the ...
... falling , feem to fall away . A glefy fruhnefs hence the role receives , And bluthus fweet through all her filken leaves ( The drops defcending through the filent night , While ftars fcrenely roll their golden light ) : Clofe till the ...
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... fall are like ) appear the beaux ; In boxes fome with fpruce pretenfion fit , Some change from feat to feat within the pit , Some roam the fcenes , or turning ceafe to roam ; Preluding mufic fills the lofty dome . When thus a fly ( if ...
... fall are like ) appear the beaux ; In boxes fome with fpruce pretenfion fit , Some change from feat to feat within the pit , Some roam the fcenes , or turning ceafe to roam ; Preluding mufic fills the lofty dome . When thus a fly ( if ...
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... fall a victim to the nine , Myfelf the priest , my desk the fhrine . Bring Homer , Virgil , Taffo near , To pile a facred altar here ; Hold , boy , thy hand out - runs thy wit , You reach'd the plays that Dennis writ ; You reach'd me ...
... fall a victim to the nine , Myfelf the priest , my desk the fhrine . Bring Homer , Virgil , Taffo near , To pile a facred altar here ; Hold , boy , thy hand out - runs thy wit , You reach'd the plays that Dennis writ ; You reach'd me ...
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Page 5 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 295 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 310 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 472 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Page 211 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Page 237 - 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 130 - Then to her new love let her go, And deck her in golden array, Be finest at...
Page 414 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
Page 224 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng"d legions, and charge home upon him.
Page 6 - Now sunk the sun ; the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober...