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... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . Aërial forms in Tempe's classic vale Glance thro ' the gloom , and ...
... Hope could grant no more , And chains and torture hailed him to the shore . And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes , and Avon melts the heart . Aërial forms in Tempe's classic vale Glance thro ' the gloom , and ...
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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 , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
... 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 , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
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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 ! From the rude wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And ...
... Hope's soft energies were felt no more . Yet still how sweet the soothings of his art ! From the rude wall what bright ideas start ! Even now he claims the amaranthine wreath , With scenes that glow , with images that breathe ! And ...
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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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age to age ancient bids bless blest blush breathe bright calm CANTO charm Cicero clouds Columbus controul Cortes courser dark dear delight desert shore dream Euripides father fear Finden fled flowers fond gaze glory glows Goodall grave grove hail hand hear heart Heaven Hence Herodotus Herrera Hist holy hope and fear hour human voice hung Icarius inspire light live look mighty Wind mind Muse night o'er once Petrarch pleasure rapture resigned rise round sacred sail sate says scene secret seraph shade shadow shed shine shore sigh silent sire sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spirit spring steals Stothard sung sweet swell tears thee thine thou thought thro Tigranes trace trembling triumphs truth Turner Twas vale VESPASIAN VIRGIL's tomb voice Voyage wake wandering wave weep whence wild wind wings youth
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Page 15 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and, lo ! what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 45 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light ; And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, Where Virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest ! HUMAN LIFE.
Page 104 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 27 - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, 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 hands the...
Page 105 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 78 - How oft her eyes read his ; her gentle mind To all his wishes, all his thoughts inclined ; Still subject — ever on the watch jto borrow Mirth of his mirth, and sorrow of his sorrow.
Page 106 - ... an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 101 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 197 - ... Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow oft beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew; And Lucy at her wheel shall sing In russet gown and apron blue.
Page 38 - ... the pebbled floor, And on the front these simple lines it bore. Hence away, nor dare intrude ! In this secret, shadowy cell Musing MEMORY loves to dwell, With her sister Solitude. Far from the busy world she flies, To taste that peace the world denies. Entranced she sits ; from youth to age, Reviewing Life's eventful page ; And noting, ere they fade away, The little lines of yesterday.