The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... head ? 245 250 When now the thunder roars , the lightening flics , And all the warring winds tumultuous rife ; When now the foaming furges , toft on high , Disclose the fands beneath , and touch the sky ; When death draws near , the ...
... head ? 245 250 When now the thunder roars , the lightening flics , And all the warring winds tumultuous rife ; When now the foaming furges , toft on high , Disclose the fands beneath , and touch the sky ; When death draws near , the ...
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... head , The billows close ; he ' s number'd with the dead . 265 ( Hear , O ye juft ! attend , ye virtuous few ! And the bright paths of piety pursue ) Lo ! the great Ruler of the world , from high , Looks fmiling down with a propitious ...
... head , The billows close ; he ' s number'd with the dead . 265 ( Hear , O ye juft ! attend , ye virtuous few ! And the bright paths of piety pursue ) Lo ! the great Ruler of the world , from high , Looks fmiling down with a propitious ...
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... head , Shakes off the lumber of ten thousand years , And on the borders of new worlds appears . Whate'er the bold , the rafh , adventure coft , In wide Eternity I dare be loft . The Mufe is wont in narrow bounds to fing , To teach the ...
... head , Shakes off the lumber of ten thousand years , And on the borders of new worlds appears . Whate'er the bold , the rafh , adventure coft , In wide Eternity I dare be loft . The Mufe is wont in narrow bounds to fing , To teach the ...
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... head . This fever'd head and trunk fhall join once more , Though realms now rife between , and oceans roar . The trumpet's found each fragrant mote fhall hear , 45 Or fix'd in earth , or if afloat in air , Obey the fignal wafted in the ...
... head . This fever'd head and trunk fhall join once more , Though realms now rife between , and oceans roar . The trumpet's found each fragrant mote fhall hear , 45 Or fix'd in earth , or if afloat in air , Obey the fignal wafted in the ...
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... head bleed in vain ? " Annull'd his groans , as far as in them lay , " And flung his agonies , and death , away ? " As our dire punishment for ever strong , " Our conftitution too for ever young . " Curs'd with returns of vigour , ftill ...
... head bleed in vain ? " Annull'd his groans , as far as in them lay , " And flung his agonies , and death , away ? " As our dire punishment for ever strong , " Our conftitution too for ever young . " Curs'd with returns of vigour , ftill ...
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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.