Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... gods relate , And faithfully describe the grand debate . The cloud - compelling thund'rer , at whose call The gods assembled in th ' etherial hall , From his bright throne the deities addrest : " What impious noise disturbs our awful ...
... gods relate , And faithfully describe the grand debate . The cloud - compelling thund'rer , at whose call The gods assembled in th ' etherial hall , From his bright throne the deities addrest : " What impious noise disturbs our awful ...
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... god of theft and eloquence . ) A hand mercurial , ready to convey , E'en in the presence of the garish day , The work an English classic late has writ , And by adoption be the sire of wit- Sure to be this is to be something - snre ...
... god of theft and eloquence . ) A hand mercurial , ready to convey , E'en in the presence of the garish day , The work an English classic late has writ , And by adoption be the sire of wit- Sure to be this is to be something - snre ...
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... gods of mirth , What ! not regard my deputy on Earth ? Whose chymic skill turns brass to gold with ease , And out of ... God's image , which was reserved for the light of the gospel , he has at least given the shadow , which together ...
... gods of mirth , What ! not regard my deputy on Earth ? Whose chymic skill turns brass to gold with ease , And out of ... God's image , which was reserved for the light of the gospel , he has at least given the shadow , which together ...
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... god , And Jove immediate gave th ' assenting nod , When Fame her adamantine trump uprear'd , And thus th ... gods With all the honours of our woodland weeds . Thine was the task , Melinoe , to prepare The turf - built theatre ...
... god , And Jove immediate gave th ' assenting nod , When Fame her adamantine trump uprear'd , And thus th ... gods With all the honours of our woodland weeds . Thine was the task , Melinoe , to prepare The turf - built theatre ...
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... gods decree , To those who sing like Pan , and judge like thee . [ Exeunt omnes . REASON AND IMAGINATION . A FABLE . IMAGINATION , in the flight Of young desire and gay delight , Began to think upon a mate ; As weary of a single state ...
... gods decree , To those who sing like Pan , and judge like thee . [ Exeunt omnes . REASON AND IMAGINATION . A FABLE . IMAGINATION , in the flight Of young desire and gay delight , Began to think upon a mate ; As weary of a single state ...
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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.