The Pleasures of MemoryParsons and Galignani, 1805 - 144 pages |
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... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a gen'rous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh , or ...
... silent dust , Still hold communion with the wise and just ! — Yet should this Verse , my leisure's best resource , When thro ' the world it steals its secret course , Revive but once a gen'rous wish supprest , Chase but a sigh , or ...
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... silent spot endear ! Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze ! That casement , arch'd with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey❜d . The mould'ring ...
... silent spot endear ! Mark yon old Mansion frowning thro ' the trees , Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze ! That casement , arch'd with ivy's brownest shade , First to these eyes the light of heav'n convey❜d . The mould'ring ...
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... silent awe , Her tatter'd mantle , and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips , her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore , Imps , in the barn with mousing owlets bred , From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ...
... silent awe , Her tatter'd mantle , and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips , her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore , Imps , in the barn with mousing owlets bred , From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ...
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... silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give― But when the sons of peace and pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet , with raptures so ...
... silent register ye live , Nor ask the vain memorial Art can give― But when the sons of peace and pleasure sleep , When only Sorrow wakes , and wakes to weep , What spells entrance my visionary mind With sighs so sweet , with raptures so ...
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... silent energy of grief , 13 With looks that ask'd , yet dar'd not hope relief , Want , with her babes , round gen'rous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas ...
... silent energy of grief , 13 With looks that ask'd , yet dar'd not hope relief , Want , with her babes , round gen'rous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' Twas thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' twas ...
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beneath bless blest bliss bow'rs breast breath'd breeze bright charm charm'd clime confest controul David Garrick dear deep delight dread ev'ning ev'ry fame fancy fire fled flies flow'rs fond gale gen'rous genius glow grove hail Hark hath heart Heav'n heav'nly Hope hour life's light ling'ring live lonely lov'd Loxian Maximian memory mind mingling mirth mould'ring murmurs Muse native Nature Nature's o'er Old Bailey OLIVER GOLDSMITH pensive pleas'd pleasure pow'r pride proud rapture reign repose resign'd Richard Burke round rude sacred Samuel Johnson scene seraph shade shed shore sigh silent smile sooth sorrow soul spirit storm stranger sublime sweet SWEET Auburn tears thee thine thou thought thro toil trembling triumph Truth Twas tyrant vale Vespasian Vide page 126 Virgil's tomb virtue wand'ring wave wealth weep Whitefoord wild winds wing wretch youth