The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackeft moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no rest , Still ...
... fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackeft moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no rest , Still ...
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... fay where ran proud Afia's bound ? Or where with fruits was fair Europa crown'd ? Where stretch'd waste Libya ? Where did India's store Sparkle in diamonds , and her golden ore ? 275 Each loft in each , their mingling kingdoms glow ...
... fay where ran proud Afia's bound ? Or where with fruits was fair Europa crown'd ? Where stretch'd waste Libya ? Where did India's store Sparkle in diamonds , and her golden ore ? 275 Each loft in each , their mingling kingdoms glow ...
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... fays , " My victory's complete : " And tell your Queen , I thank her for the blow , " And grieve my gratitude I cannot show : " A poor return I leave in England's crown , " For everlasting pleasure , and renown : " Her guilt alone ...
... fays , " My victory's complete : " And tell your Queen , I thank her for the blow , " And grieve my gratitude I cannot show : " A poor return I leave in England's crown , " For everlasting pleasure , and renown : " Her guilt alone ...
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... fays he , is the son of the goddess Poverty , and the god of Riches : he has from his father his daring genius ; his elevation of thought ; his building caftles in the air ; his prodigality ; his neglect of things feri- ous and useful ...
... fays he , is the son of the goddess Poverty , and the god of Riches : he has from his father his daring genius ; his elevation of thought ; his building caftles in the air ; his prodigality ; his neglect of things feri- ous and useful ...
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... fay you ' re curious , when we swear you ' re mad . By your revenue measure your expence ; 199 And to your funds and acres join your fenfe . No man is blefs'd by accident or guefs ; True wisdom is the price of happiness : Yet few ...
... fay you ' re curious , when we swear you ' re mad . By your revenue measure your expence ; 199 And to your funds and acres join your fenfe . No man is blefs'd by accident or guefs ; True wisdom is the price of happiness : Yet few ...
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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.