The Pleasures of Memory. [By Samuel Rogers.]P. Wogan, 1804 - 60 pages |
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... blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way ; ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver gray Sooth'd the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with mute attention dwelt . As inhis scrip we dropp'd our little store , And ...
... blest ! We led the bending beggar on his way ; ( Bare were his feet , his tresses silver gray Sooth'd the keen pangs his aged spirit felt , And on his tale with mute attention dwelt . As inhis scrip we dropp'd our little store , And ...
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... Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh , grant the grateful muse Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To pass the clouds that round thy empire roll , And trace its airy precincts in the soul . Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain ...
... Blest MEMORY , hail ! Oh , grant the grateful muse Her pencil dipt in Nature's living hues , To pass the clouds that round thy empire roll , And trace its airy precincts in the soul . Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain ...
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... blest the sight . Pile rocks on rocks , bid woods and mountains rise , Eclipse her native shades , her native skies ; - ' Tis vain ! thro ' Ether's pathless wilds she goes , And lights at last where all her cares repose . Sweet bird ...
... blest the sight . Pile rocks on rocks , bid woods and mountains rise , Eclipse her native shades , her native skies ; - ' Tis vain ! thro ' Ether's pathless wilds she goes , And lights at last where all her cares repose . Sweet bird ...
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... considered , so far as it relates to man and the animal world , the Poem concludes with a conjecture , that superior beings are blest with a nobler exercise of this faculty . THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY PART II .. SWEET MEMORY , ( 26 )
... considered , so far as it relates to man and the animal world , the Poem concludes with a conjecture , that superior beings are blest with a nobler exercise of this faculty . THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY PART II .. SWEET MEMORY , ( 26 )
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... Blest with far greener shades , far fresher flowers .. Ages and climes remote to Thee impart What charms in Genius , and refines in Art ; Thee , in whose hand the keys of Science dwell ,, The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose ...
... Blest with far greener shades , far fresher flowers .. Ages and climes remote to Thee impart What charms in Genius , and refines in Art ; Thee , in whose hand the keys of Science dwell ,, The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose ...
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adieu bends blest breast breath'd his firm breathe breeze calm chain charm charm'd chas'd clime clos'd clouds confest confin'd controul Cumberland delight but faintly dusky dwell faintly imag'd fancy Fancy's fled fleep FLORIO FOSCARI gale gaz'd gaze glade gray hail Hark heart heav'n Hence Herbert's consecrated grove Hist Hope's horse the homeward hour hues hung Innocence light live Long lov'd his Sabine Maximian melancholy melts mild mind muse native NAVARRE nobler NOTE NOTE f old ORMOND nobly PLEASURES OF MEMORY rapture resign'd Richelieu round rous'd rude Say why VESPASIAN scal'd scene seraphic shade shadowy ſhed sigh silent smile soft sooth'd sorrows soul sphere spirit spring steals sublime sweet the soothings tears Thee ting'd tints trace triumph Twas Venice VESPASIAN lov'd VIRGIL's tomb Virtue wakes wave Whence wild wood vales wind wing youth