Poems, Volumen1S.A. Oddy, 1813 - 443 páginas |
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... less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publication , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTO Charles Square , Hoxton , February 18 , 1782 . 2 TABLE TALK . Si ...
... less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publication , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTO Charles Square , Hoxton , February 18 , 1782 . 2 TABLE TALK . Si ...
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... less sublime . When ministers and ministerial arts , Patriots , who love good places at their hearts ; When admirals , extoll'd for standing still , Or doing nothing with a deal of skill ; Gen'rals who will not conquer when they may ...
... less sublime . When ministers and ministerial arts , Patriots , who love good places at their hearts ; When admirals , extoll'd for standing still , Or doing nothing with a deal of skill ; Gen'rals who will not conquer when they may ...
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... glee , As if he heard his king to say -- Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows ,, Less on exterior things than most suppose . Freedom has Charms unknown to Slaves . Vigilant over all TABLE TALK . 13.
... glee , As if he heard his king to say -- Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows ,, Less on exterior things than most suppose . Freedom has Charms unknown to Slaves . Vigilant over all TABLE TALK . 13.
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... less illustrious bards his beauty shone A meteor , or a star ; in these , the sun . , The nightingale may claim the topmost bough , While the poor grasshopper must chirp below : Like him , unnotic'd , I , and such as 1 , Spread little ...
... less illustrious bards his beauty shone A meteor , or a star ; in these , the sun . , The nightingale may claim the topmost bough , While the poor grasshopper must chirp below : Like him , unnotic'd , I , and such as 1 , Spread little ...
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... less innocent , as less refin'd Then genius danc'd a bacchanal ; he crown'd The brimming goblet , seiz'd the thyrsus , bound His brows with ivy , rush'd into the field Of wild imagination , and there reel'd , The victim of his own ...
... less innocent , as less refin'd Then genius danc'd a bacchanal ; he crown'd The brimming goblet , seiz'd the thyrsus , bound His brows with ivy , rush'd into the field Of wild imagination , and there reel'd , The victim of his own ...
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beams beneath bids blest bliss blooming groves Boadicea boast brighter day call'd Charity charms Christian courser dark deeds delight design'd divine dream earth Effeminacy Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flow'rs folly fools forbidden Game form'd frown give glory God's grace hand happy hast heart heav'n heav'nly hope hour Idolatry int'rest joys land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature never night o'er once pain peace pharisee PINE-APPLE pity plain pleasure poet poet's pow'r praise pray'rs pride prize proud prove Religion Rome sacred scene scorn scorn'd scripture shine sight skies slave smile song soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee their's theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler truth Twas VIRG virtue waste Whate'er WILLIAM COWPER wisdom woes youth zeal
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Página 270 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Página 271 - Ye winds that have made me your sport. Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more : My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 269 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 96 - Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped, but in thy righteousness divine...
Página 313 - The kindest and the happiest p"air Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Página 206 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
Página 3 - Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days, Tells of a few stout hearts that fought and died Where duty placed them, at their country's side, The man that is not moved with what he reads, That takes not fire at their heroic deeds, Unworthy of the blessings of the brave, Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
Página 262 - To mark the matchless workings of the power, That shuts within its seed the future flower, Bids these in elegance of form excel, In colour these, and those delight the smell, Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes...
Página 162 - He loved the world that hated him: the tear That dropp'd upon his bible was sincere; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 279 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire— There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!