The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Mufe , With gen'rous zeal , a nobler fame pursues : Religion's caufe her ravish'd heart inspires , And with a thousand bright ideas fires ; Transports her quick , impatient , piercing eye , O'er the ftrait limits of mortality , To ...
... Mufe , With gen'rous zeal , a nobler fame pursues : Religion's caufe her ravish'd heart inspires , And with a thousand bright ideas fires ; Transports her quick , impatient , piercing eye , O'er the ftrait limits of mortality , To ...
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... Mufe , whom dismal scenes delight , Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night ; Say , melancholy maid , if bold to dare The last extremes of terror and despair ; Oh fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackeft ...
... Mufe , whom dismal scenes delight , Frequent at tombs , and in the realms of night ; Say , melancholy maid , if bold to dare The last extremes of terror and despair ; Oh fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackeft ...
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... rife , and pour His facred gueft un - injur'd on the fhore : A type of that great bleffing , which the Mufe In her next labour ardently purfues . VOL . I. C THE THE LAST DAY . BOOK II . - Εκ γαίης THE LAST DAY , BOOK I. 17.
... rife , and pour His facred gueft un - injur'd on the fhore : A type of that great bleffing , which the Mufe In her next labour ardently purfues . VOL . I. C THE THE LAST DAY . BOOK II . - Εκ γαίης THE LAST DAY , BOOK I. 17.
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... Mufe is wont in narrow bounds to fing , To teach the fwain , or celebrate the king . I grafp the whole , no more to parts confin'd , I lift my voice , and fing to human kind : I fing to men and angels ; angels join , While fuch the ...
... Mufe is wont in narrow bounds to fing , To teach the fwain , or celebrate the king . I grafp the whole , no more to parts confin'd , I lift my voice , and fing to human kind : I fing to men and angels ; angels join , While fuch the ...
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... Mufe , that homage show , Which to fuch worthies thou art proud to owe . Wickham ! Fox ! Chichley ! hail , illuftrious * names , 125 Who to far diftant times difpenfe your beams ; Beneath your fhades , and near your crystal springs ,. I ...
... Mufe , that homage show , Which to fuch worthies thou art proud to owe . Wickham ! Fox ! Chichley ! hail , illuftrious * names , 125 Who to far diftant times difpenfe your beams ; Beneath your fhades , and near your crystal springs ,. I ...
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AUBREY BEAUCLERK becauſe bleffings boaſt Book of Job breaſt bright Britain caft charms crown dare death defcend diftant divine dreadful duft earth eternal eyes facred fafe fair fame fate fatires fays fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhine fhould fkies flain flame fmile foes fome fons fools foon forrow foul fpirit ftill ftrain ftrong fublime fuch fupport fure fweet fwell fword glory grace guilty heart heaven himſelf immortal inſpire juft laft laſt lefs loft lord mankind meaſure mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt numbers nymphs o'er paffion pain pleaſe pleaſure praife praiſe pride profe proud purſue rage raiſe reafon renown rife Satire ſcene ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſky ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtore ſtorm tempeft thee thefe theme theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne thunders toy'd trembling vengeance virtue virtue's Whofe Whoſe wife wiſdom
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Page 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Page 112 - But after seven years' dance, from place to place The 'Dane is more familiar with his grace. Who'd be a crutch to prop a rotten peer ; Or living pendant dangling at his ear, For ever whisp'ring secrets, which were blown For months before, by trumpets, thro...
Page 10 - Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend ; Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend ; The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar, And break the bondage of his wonted shore ; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread ; Darkness the circle of the sun invade ; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
Page 131 - LIBERIA'S eye As riot, impudence, and perfidy ; The youth of fire, that has drunk deep, and play'd...
Page 97 - Though prone to like, yet cautious to commend, You read with all the malice of a friend; Nor favour my attempts that way alone, But more to raise my verse, conceal your own. An ill-tim'd modesty!
Page 81 - Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing — but merit in a low estate.
Page 82 - The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. In Britain, what is many a lordly seat, But a discharge in full for an estate...
Page 96 - I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee. O THOU myself! abroad our counsels roam, And, like ill husbands, take no care at home : Thou too art wounded with the common dart, And Love of Fame lies throbbing at thy heart; And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?
Page 79 - Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went : One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear ; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their religion has been one.
Page 119 - But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word Drops from the lip of her unwary lord, Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent, Just intimates the lady's discontent.