The Works of the British Poets, Volumen5John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh., 1795 - 1157 páginas |
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... sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and fpells , And like a pack - horse tires without his bells : There fancies , like our bushy points , appear , The poets tag them , we for fashion wear . I too , tranfported by ...
... sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and fpells , And like a pack - horse tires without his bells : There fancies , like our bushy points , appear , The poets tag them , we for fashion wear . I too , tranfported by ...
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... senses dark , What may fuffice , and foften ftony hearts To pray , repent , and bring obedience due . To pray'r repentance , and obedience due , Though but endeavour'd with fincere intent , Mine car fhall not be flow , mine eye not shut ...
... senses dark , What may fuffice , and foften ftony hearts To pray , repent , and bring obedience due . To pray'r repentance , and obedience due , Though but endeavour'd with fincere intent , Mine car fhall not be flow , mine eye not shut ...
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... Sense of pleafure we may well Spare out of life perhaps , and not repine , But live content , which is the calmest life : But pain is perfect mifery , the worst Of evils , and exceffive , overturns All patience . He who therefore can ...
... Sense of pleafure we may well Spare out of life perhaps , and not repine , But live content , which is the calmest life : But pain is perfect mifery , the worst Of evils , and exceffive , overturns All patience . He who therefore can ...
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... sense , Plac'd Heav'n from Earth fo far , that earthly fight , [ hid , If it prefume , might err in things too high , And no advantage gain . What if the fun Be centre to the world , and other stars By his attractive virtue and their ...
... sense , Plac'd Heav'n from Earth fo far , that earthly fight , [ hid , If it prefume , might err in things too high , And no advantage gain . What if the fun Be centre to the world , and other stars By his attractive virtue and their ...
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... sense , In heart or head , poffeffing foon infpir'd With act intelligential ; but his fleep Disturb'd not , waiting clofe th ' approach of morn . Now when , as facred light began to dawn , In Eden on the humid flowers , that breath'd ...
... sense , In heart or head , poffeffing foon infpir'd With act intelligential ; but his fleep Disturb'd not , waiting clofe th ' approach of morn . Now when , as facred light began to dawn , In Eden on the humid flowers , that breath'd ...
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Página 152 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Página 76 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 11 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th...
Página 151 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 25 - I visit; nor sometimes forget Those other two equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 151 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Página 151 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides: Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Página 26 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 224 - This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Página 25 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.