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... night Was graced with many an undulating light . In 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 ...
... night Was graced with many an undulating light . In 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 ...
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... spark , Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and absolute disgrace . While servile trick and imitative knack Confine the million in the beaten track , Perhaps some courser who disdains the road , Snuff's up TABLE TALK . 19.
... spark , Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and absolute disgrace . While servile trick and imitative knack Confine the million in the beaten track , Perhaps some courser who disdains the road , Snuff's up TABLE TALK . 19.
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... night , down - stooping from her ebon throne , Views constellations brighter than her own . ' Tis innocent , and harmless , and refined , The balm of care , elysium of the mind . Innocent ! Oh , if venerable time , Slain at the foot of ...
... night , down - stooping from her ebon throne , Views constellations brighter than her own . ' Tis innocent , and harmless , and refined , The balm of care , elysium of the mind . Innocent ! Oh , if venerable time , Slain at the foot of ...
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... These are the sober , in whose cooler brains Some thought of immortality remains ; The rest too busy or too gay to wait On the sad theme , their everlasting state , VOL . I G Sport for a day and perish in a night , TRUTH . 41.
... These are the sober , in whose cooler brains Some thought of immortality remains ; The rest too busy or too gay to wait On the sad theme , their everlasting state , VOL . I G Sport for a day and perish in a night , TRUTH . 41.
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William Cowper. Sport for a day and perish in a night , The foam upon the waters not so light . Who judged the Pharisee ? what odions cause Exposed him to the vengeance of the laws ? Had he seduced a virgin , wronged a friend , Or ...
William Cowper. Sport for a day and perish in a night , The foam upon the waters not so light . Who judged the Pharisee ? what odions cause Exposed him to the vengeance of the laws ? Had he seduced a virgin , wronged a friend , Or ...
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Términos y frases comunes
beneath bids blasphemy blest bliss boast breast breath cerebrum charms courser dark dear declension deeds deist delight divine docet dream earth Edmonton eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fools frown Gilpin give glory GLOW-WORM God's grace Greece hallowed ground hand happy hast hear heart heaven heavenly hope hour John Gilpin joys land learned light lust lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature never night NOSEGAY nymph o'er once peace Pharisee pine-apples pity plain pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scripture shine shore Sighs sight skies slave smile song soon sorrow soul sound stand strain stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE Virg virtue waste whate'er wind wisdom woes wonder youth zeal
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Página 221 - Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folks so glad ; The stones did "rattle underneath, As if Cheapside were mad.
Página 172 - Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? 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 229 - Bent upon pleasure, heedless of its end. But he, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That hard by nature, and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace designed To rescue from the rums of mankind, Called for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go, spend them in the vale of tears.
Página 228 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Página 236 - O LORD, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort, to thy will, And make thy pleasure mine. 2 Why should I shrink at thy command, Whose love forbids my fears ? Or tremble at the gracious hand That wipes away my tears...
Página 172 - 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 210 - And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
Página 178 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Página 227 - And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, This shall be yours when you bring back My husband safe and well.
Página 223 - Fair and softly," John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein.