The Pleasures of MemoryS. Archer, 1815 - 54 pages |
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... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hail'd him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart : Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . Aerial forms , in Tempe's classic vale , Glance thro ' the gloom ...
... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hail'd him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart : Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . Aerial forms , in Tempe's classic vale , Glance thro ' the gloom ...
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... hope relief , Want , with her babes , round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine perchance the first to die , Crush'd by her meagre hand ...
... hope relief , Want , with her babes , round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas thine perchance the first to die , Crush'd by her meagre hand ...
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... Hope her airy colouring draws , And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws ; From thee that bosom spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray , And Hope's ...
... Hope her airy colouring draws , And Fancy's flights are subject to thy laws ; From thee that bosom spring of rapture flows , Which only Virtue , tranquil Virtue , knows . When Joy's bright sun has shed his evening ray , And Hope's ...
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... Hope's soft energies were felt no more . Yet still , how sweet the soothings of his art ! ( b ) From the rude stone what bright ideas start ! Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ...
... Hope's soft energies were felt no more . Yet still , how sweet the soothings of his art ! ( b ) From the rude stone what bright ideas start ! Ev'n now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ...
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... hope to trace The pensive softness of her angel face ? Can VIRGIL's verse , can RAPHAEL's touch impart Those finer features of the feeling heart , Those tend'rer tints that shun the careless eye , And in the world's contagious climate ...
... hope to trace The pensive softness of her angel face ? Can VIRGIL's verse , can RAPHAEL's touch impart Those finer features of the feeling heart , Those tend'rer tints that shun the careless eye , And in the world's contagious climate ...
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