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... reign whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates1 in the face of day ; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth , And lend a lie ...
... reign whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates1 in the face of day ; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth , And lend a lie ...
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... reign , Could half the nation's criminals contain ; Fair Justice then , without constraint adored , Held high the steady scale , but sheathed the sword ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but , ah ! how ...
... reign , Could half the nation's criminals contain ; Fair Justice then , without constraint adored , Held high the steady scale , but sheathed the sword ; No spies were paid , no special juries known , Blest age ! but , ah ! how ...
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... reign , And Pride and Prudence take her seat in vain ; In crowd at once , where none the pass defend , The harmless freedom and the private friend . 1 ' Lydia's monarch : ' Croesus . - 2 Vane : ' Lady Vane , a celebrated courtezan ; her ...
... reign , And Pride and Prudence take her seat in vain ; In crowd at once , where none the pass defend , The harmless freedom and the private friend . 1 ' Lydia's monarch : ' Croesus . - 2 Vane : ' Lady Vane , a celebrated courtezan ; her ...
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... reign , And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd , And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast . Then Jonson came , instructed from the school , To please in method , and invent by rule ...
... reign , And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd , And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast . Then Jonson came , instructed from the school , To please in method , and invent by rule ...
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... reign to quit , She saw great Faustus lay the ghost of Wit ; Exulting Folly hail'd the joyous day , And Pantomime and Song confirm'd her sway . But who the coming changes can presage , And mark the future periods of the Stage ? Perhaps ...
... reign to quit , She saw great Faustus lay the ghost of Wit ; Exulting Folly hail'd the joyous day , And Pantomime and Song confirm'd her sway . But who the coming changes can presage , And mark the future periods of the Stage ? Perhaps ...
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Page 159 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 166 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 162 - Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...
Page 178 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 167 - Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play: No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Page 205 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 205 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 204 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 163 - But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.
Page 167 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.