Poems, Volumen1S.A. Oddy, 1813 - 443 páginas |
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... speaking for himself , whoever presumes to step before him with a preface , and to say , Nay , but hear me first , " should have something worthy of attention to offer , or he will be justly deemed offi- cious and impertinent . The ...
... speaking for himself , whoever presumes to step before him with a preface , and to say , Nay , but hear me first , " should have something worthy of attention to offer , or he will be justly deemed offi- cious and impertinent . The ...
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... speak of , and to treat them as enthusiasm and folly , have inward feelings of their own , which , though they would , they cannot suppress . We have been too long in the secret ourselves , to account the proud , the ambitious , or the ...
... speak of , and to treat them as enthusiasm and folly , have inward feelings of their own , which , though they would , they cannot suppress . We have been too long in the secret ourselves , to account the proud , the ambitious , or the ...
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... speak his pow'r , Then grace the bony phantom in their stead With the king's shoulder - knot and gay cockade ; Clothe the twin brethren in each other's dress , The same their occupation and success . Man made for Kings ! —rather they ...
... speak his pow'r , Then grace the bony phantom in their stead With the king's shoulder - knot and gay cockade ; Clothe the twin brethren in each other's dress , The same their occupation and success . Man made for Kings ! —rather they ...
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... Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in ev'ry careless ear , Stop , while ye may ; suspend your mad career ; O learn , from our example and our fate . Learn wisdom and repentance ere too late . Not only vice ...
... Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in ev'ry careless ear , Stop , while ye may ; suspend your mad career ; O learn , from our example and our fate . Learn wisdom and repentance ere too late . Not only vice ...
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... speak thee , or thy powr address , Thou god of our idolatry , the press ? By thee , religion , liberty , and laws , 1 Exert their influence , and advance their cause ? By thee , worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befel , Diffus'd , make ...
... speak thee , or thy powr address , Thou god of our idolatry , the press ? By thee , religion , liberty , and laws , 1 Exert their influence , and advance their cause ? By thee , worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befel , Diffus'd , make ...
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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!