The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 53–54. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... , That caft an aweful look below ; Whofe ragged walls the ivy creeps , And with her arms from falling keeps ; So both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find . B 2 3 ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis " Tis GRONGAR HILL .
... , That caft an aweful look below ; Whofe ragged walls the ivy creeps , And with her arms from falling keeps ; So both a fafety from the wind On mutual dependence find . B 2 3 ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis " Tis GRONGAR HILL .
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... falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls . Yet time has feen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has ... fall , the river's flow , The woody vallies , warm and low ; } The The windy fummit , wild and high , Roughly ...
... falls Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls . Yet time has feen , that lifts the low , And level lays the lofty brow , Has ... fall , the river's flow , The woody vallies , warm and low ; } The The windy fummit , wild and high , Roughly ...
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... Fall'n , fall'n , a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp , The throne of nations fall'n ; obscur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majestical : the folemn fcene Elates the foul , while now the rifing Sun 10 B 4 ...
... Fall'n , fall'n , a filent heap ; her heroes all Sunk in their urns ; behold the pride of pomp , The throne of nations fall'n ; obscur'd in duft ; Ev'n yet majestical : the folemn fcene Elates the foul , while now the rifing Sun 10 B 4 ...
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... falling waters ; fhrouded Nile * , Eridanus , and Tiber with his twins , And palmy Euphrates ; they with dropping locks , Hang o'er their urns , and mournfully among The plaintive - echoing ruins pour their streams . Yet * Fountains at ...
... falling waters ; fhrouded Nile * , Eridanus , and Tiber with his twins , And palmy Euphrates ; they with dropping locks , Hang o'er their urns , and mournfully among The plaintive - echoing ruins pour their streams . Yet * Fountains at ...
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... fall'n ) At length afcrib'd th ' Inapplicable Name . How doth it please and fill the memory With deeds of brave renown , while on each hand Hiftoric urns and breathing ftatues rife , And speaking bufts ! Sweet Scipio , Marius stern ...
... fall'n ) At length afcrib'd th ' Inapplicable Name . How doth it please and fill the memory With deeds of brave renown , while on each hand Hiftoric urns and breathing ftatues rife , And speaking bufts ! Sweet Scipio , Marius stern ...
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Page 4 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 6 - I lie ; While the wanton Zephyr sings. And in the vale perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep; While the birds unbounded fly, And with music fill the sky, Now, ev'n now. my joys run high.
Page 160 - Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Page 158 - Thus glide the foft numbers along, And he fancies no fhepherd his peer ; Yet I never mould envy the fong, Were not PHYLLIS to lend it an ear. Let his crook be with hyacinths bound, So PHYLLIS the trophy defpife ; Let his forehead with laurels be crown'd, So they fhine not in PHYLLIS'S eyes.
Page 155 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Page 158 - Tis his with mock passion to glow, Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, " How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold. How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die.
Page 34 - Not fcience fhall extort that dear delight, Which gay delufion gave the tender mind. Adieu foft raptures ! tranfports void of care ! Parent of raptures, dear deceit, adieu! And you, her daughters, pining with defpair, Why, why fo foon her fleeting fteps purfue ! Tedious again to curfe the...
Page 287 - Twas her own country bred the flock so fair; 'Twas her own labour did the fleece prepare...
Page 160 - CORYDON'S theme : High tranfports are fhewn to the fight, But we are not to find them our own ; Fate never beftow'd fuch delight, As I with my PHYLLIS had known.
Page 287 - Goody, good-woman, gossip, n'aunt, forsooth, Or dame, the sole additions she did hear; Yet these she challenged, these she held right dear ; Ne would esteem him act as mought behove Who should not honour'd eld with these revere ; For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a mind which did that title love.