The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, 10. köideAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... thou tread'st the blissful plains : If there , regardful of the ways of men , Thou seest with pity what thou once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas ...
... thou tread'st the blissful plains : If there , regardful of the ways of men , Thou seest with pity what thou once hast been , O gentle shade ! accept this humble verse , Amidst the meaner honours of thy hearse . How does thy Phocyas ...
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... thou to warring waves thy sacred life expose ? Why am I thus divided by the sea From all the world , and all the world in thee ? Could sighs and tears the rage of tempests bind , With tears I'd bribe the seas , with sighs the wind ...
... thou to warring waves thy sacred life expose ? Why am I thus divided by the sea From all the world , and all the world in thee ? Could sighs and tears the rage of tempests bind , With tears I'd bribe the seas , with sighs the wind ...
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... thou , fair Boyne ! shall pass unmention'd by , Already sung in strains that ne'er shall die . These , and a ... Thou saw'st him , Boyne ! when thy charg'd waters bore The swimming coursers to th ' opposing shore , And , round thy banks ...
... thou , fair Boyne ! shall pass unmention'd by , Already sung in strains that ne'er shall die . These , and a ... Thou saw'st him , Boyne ! when thy charg'd waters bore The swimming coursers to th ' opposing shore , And , round thy banks ...
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... thou destroy The lovers ' hopes , and why forbid the joy ? How should we bless thee , would'st thou yield to charms , And , opening , let us rush into each other's arms ! At least , if that's too much , afford a space To meeting lips ...
... thou destroy The lovers ' hopes , and why forbid the joy ? How should we bless thee , would'st thou yield to charms , And , opening , let us rush into each other's arms ! At least , if that's too much , afford a space To meeting lips ...
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... thou triumphant through the shouting throng Shalt ride , and move with art the willing birds along ; While captive youths and maids , in solemn state , Adorn the scene , and on thy triumph wait . There I , a later conquest of thy bow ...
... thou triumphant through the shouting throng Shalt ride , and move with art the willing birds along ; While captive youths and maids , in solemn state , Adorn the scene , and on thy triumph wait . There I , a later conquest of thy bow ...
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Page 428 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us ; and we now and then gave a correction or a word or two of advice, but it was wholly of his own writing.
Page 211 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Page 205 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Page 440 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 113 - We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided.
Page 145 - Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva, and him a new god. But why should I stories of Athens rehearse, Where people knew love, and were partial to verse ; Since none can with justice my pleasures oppose, In Holland half...
Page 150 - Ah me ! the blooming pride of May And that of Beauty are but one : At morn both flourish, bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale and gone.
Page 456 - Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the leaky boat the Thames divide; Or, box'd within the chair, contemn the street, And trust their safety to another's feet, Still let me walk; for oft the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail.
Page 427 - will make " you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton " every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost ; and Gay sunk under the calamity so low, that his life became in danger.
Page 261 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.