Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Death stood o'er me with his threat'ning When reason left me in the time of need , And sense was lost in terrour or in trance , My sinking soul was with my blood inflam'd , And the celestial image sunk , defac'd and maim'd . I sent back ...
... Death stood o'er me with his threat'ning When reason left me in the time of need , And sense was lost in terrour or in trance , My sinking soul was with my blood inflam'd , And the celestial image sunk , defac'd and maim'd . I sent back ...
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... death , Mute , motionless they lie ; full well appriz'd , That the rapacious adversary's near . But who inform'd her of the approaching danger , Who taught the cautious mother that the hawk Was hatcht her foe , and liv'd by her ...
... death , Mute , motionless they lie ; full well appriz'd , That the rapacious adversary's near . But who inform'd her of the approaching danger , Who taught the cautious mother that the hawk Was hatcht her foe , and liv'd by her ...
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... death , ere yet he rise Victorious o'er the universal foe , And Death , and Sin and Hell in triumph lead . His by the right of conquest is mankind , And in sweet servitude and golden bonds Were ty'd to him for ever . - O how easy Is his ...
... death , ere yet he rise Victorious o'er the universal foe , And Death , and Sin and Hell in triumph lead . His by the right of conquest is mankind , And in sweet servitude and golden bonds Were ty'd to him for ever . - O how easy Is his ...
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... death . On his left side in bright emblazonry His falchion burn'd ; forth from his sevenfold shield A basilisk shot adamant ; hs bow Wore clouds of fury ! -on that with plumage crown'd Of various hue sat a tremendous cone : Thus sits ...
... death . On his left side in bright emblazonry His falchion burn'd ; forth from his sevenfold shield A basilisk shot adamant ; hs bow Wore clouds of fury ! -on that with plumage crown'd Of various hue sat a tremendous cone : Thus sits ...
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... death there's no returning , When th ' old lover bids adieu , All the pomp and farce of mourning Are but signals for a new . T EPISTLE TO MRS . TYLER , Ir ever was allow'd , dear madam , Ev'n from the days of father Adam , Of all ...
... death there's no returning , When th ' old lover bids adieu , All the pomp and farce of mourning Are but signals for a new . T EPISTLE TO MRS . TYLER , Ir ever was allow'd , dear madam , Ev'n from the days of father Adam , Of all ...
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Page 80 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 495 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 97 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 494 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
Page 494 - All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 494 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 502 - Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see, Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restor'd to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And ev'ry care resign: And shall we never, never part, My life, — my all that's mine. "No, never, from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 495 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 495 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 495 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.