A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volume 1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1755 - English poetry |
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... rage allay'd , I wait our heroes in the fylvan shade : Difbanding hosts are imag'd to my mind , And warring pow'rs in friendly leagues combin'd ; While ease and pleasure make the nations smile , And heav'n and ANNA blefs Britannia's ...
... rage allay'd , I wait our heroes in the fylvan shade : Difbanding hosts are imag'd to my mind , And warring pow'rs in friendly leagues combin'd ; While ease and pleasure make the nations smile , And heav'n and ANNA blefs Britannia's ...
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... rage . Charm me , ye pow'rs , with fcenes lefs nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious mufe delight , Content to fee the horrors of the field By plough - fhares level'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may ...
... rage . Charm me , ye pow'rs , with fcenes lefs nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious mufe delight , Content to fee the horrors of the field By plough - fhares level'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may ...
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... rage ; To hear thee speak might the fierce Vandal stand , And fling the brandish'd fabre from his hand . Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ftormy shore The drum's harfh mufick , and the cannon's roar ; Let grim Bellona haunt the lawless ...
... rage ; To hear thee speak might the fierce Vandal stand , And fling the brandish'd fabre from his hand . Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ftormy shore The drum's harfh mufick , and the cannon's roar ; Let grim Bellona haunt the lawless ...
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... rage To rend their banks , and pour , at one command Thy realm the fea o'er their precarious land . Henceforth be thine , vice - gerent of the skies , Scorn'd worth to raise , and vice in robes chastise ; To dry the orphan's tears , and ...
... rage To rend their banks , and pour , at one command Thy realm the fea o'er their precarious land . Henceforth be thine , vice - gerent of the skies , Scorn'd worth to raise , and vice in robes chastise ; To dry the orphan's tears , and ...
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... rage , And Grecian plans reform Britannia's stage : ' Till Congreve bids her fmile , Augusta stands , And longs to weep when flowing Rowe commands : Britain's Spectators fhall their strength combine To mend our morals , and our taste ...
... rage , And Grecian plans reform Britannia's stage : ' Till Congreve bids her fmile , Augusta stands , And longs to weep when flowing Rowe commands : Britain's Spectators fhall their strength combine To mend our morals , and our taste ...
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Page 285 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 223 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 256 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Page 200 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Page 254 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair ; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from finger wet the letters fair ; The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high atchievements does declare-; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been, Kens the forthcoming rod ; — unpleasing sight, I ween.
Page 208 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 25 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
Page 195 - Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black, a courtier white; Explain their country's dear-bought rights away, And plead for pirates in the face of day; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth, And lend a lie the confidence of truth.
Page 251 - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere: For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did that title love.
Page 145 - Annuity securely made, A farm some twenty miles from town, Small, tight, salubrious, and my own: Two maids, that never saw the town, A...