The Works of William Mason, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 - Church music |
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... o'er his silver urn . And , when the Poet's widow'd grot he laves , His reed - crown'd locks shall shake , his head shall bow , His tide no more in eddies blithe shall rove , But creep soft by with long - drawn murmurs slow . For oft ...
... o'er his silver urn . And , when the Poet's widow'd grot he laves , His reed - crown'd locks shall shake , his head shall bow , His tide no more in eddies blithe shall rove , But creep soft by with long - drawn murmurs slow . For oft ...
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... o'er , And in his hand an oaken crook he bore , And thus in antique guise short talk did hold : " Grete clerk of Fame ' is house , whose excellence " Maie wele befitt thilk place of eminence , " Mickle of wele betide thy houres last ...
... o'er , And in his hand an oaken crook he bore , And thus in antique guise short talk did hold : " Grete clerk of Fame ' is house , whose excellence " Maie wele befitt thilk place of eminence , " Mickle of wele betide thy houres last ...
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... o'er that spirit divine , " Who builds immortal verse . There thy bold Muse , " Which while on earth could breathe Mæonian fire , " Shall soar seraphic heights ; while to her voice " Ten thousand hierarchies of angels harp 66 ...
... o'er that spirit divine , " Who builds immortal verse . There thy bold Muse , " Which while on earth could breathe Mæonian fire , " Shall soar seraphic heights ; while to her voice " Ten thousand hierarchies of angels harp 66 ...
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... o'er the pebbled floor : “ Yet not this various peaceful cave , with this " Its mineral roof ; nor this assemblage meet " Of coral , ore , and shell ; nor mid the shade " These pointed crystals , glist'ring fair ; nor rills [ 10 ]
... o'er the pebbled floor : “ Yet not this various peaceful cave , with this " Its mineral roof ; nor this assemblage meet " Of coral , ore , and shell ; nor mid the shade " These pointed crystals , glist'ring fair ; nor rills [ 10 ]
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... o'er the pebbled floor , " Deal charms more various to each raptured sense , " Than thy mellifluous lay 66 " Cease , friendly swain ; ( MUSEUS cried , and raised his aching head ) " ALL PRAISE IS FOREIGN , BUT OF TRUE DESERT ; " PLAYS ...
... o'er the pebbled floor , " Deal charms more various to each raptured sense , " Than thy mellifluous lay 66 " Cease , friendly swain ; ( MUSEUS cried , and raised his aching head ) " ALL PRAISE IS FOREIGN , BUT OF TRUE DESERT ; " PLAYS ...
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ALCANDER antistrophe Arius Bard beam beauty behold BISHOP OF WORCESTER blessings blest bloom BOOK bower breast breathe bright brow call'd charms CLEON cloyster cry'd Dæmons divine e'er Elegy ENGLISH GARDEN Ev'n ev'ry fair faith fame Fancy fane flame foes foliage form'd frown Genius Georgics give glade glow Goddess Gothic grace grove hand head heart heav'n Hence History of Gardening honours imitation join'd lawn Lord Lord Burlington lyre majestic Muse Naiad Nature Nature's Note numbers Nymph o'er ornament peace perchance picturesque Pindaric plain Poem Poet praise precept pride PROTOGENES PSALM reign rhyme rill rise round sacred sage scene scorn seraph shade smile song SONNET soul sov'reign spread strain stream sublime sweet swell taste thee theme thine thou throne toil truth Twas vale verdure vernal Verse warble wave wild WILLIAM MASON youth καὶ
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Page 201 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 137 - Heav'n so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does Youth, does Beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead MARIA ! breathe a strain divine : Ev'n from the grave thou shalt have power to charm.
Page 137 - Ev'n from the grave thou shall have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas ev'n to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heav'n lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their GOD.
Page 390 - ... work, about twelve foot in height, by which you may go in shade into the garden. As for the making of knots or figures with divers coloured earths, that they may lie under the windows of the house on that side which the garden stands, they be but toys : you may see as good sights many times in tarts.
Page 406 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Page 401 - So spake the fiend; and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.
Page 469 - AGAIN the day returns of holy rest, Which, when he made the world, Jehovah blest ; When, like his own, he bade our labours cease, And all be piety, and all be peace.
Page 469 - Father of heaven ! in whom our hopes confide, Whose power defends us, and whose precepts guide, In life our Guardian, and in death...
Page 393 - What I have said, of the best forms of gardens, is meant only of such as are in some sort regular; for there may be other forms wholly irregular that may, for aught I know, have more beauty than any of the others ; but they must owe it to some extraordinary dispositions of nature in the seat, or some great race of fancy or judgment in the contrivance, which may reduce many disagreeing parts into some figure, which shall yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable.
Page 131 - Unpropp'd by staff, support me to behold How Nature, to her Maker's mandate true, Calls Spring's impartial heralds to the view, The snow-drop pale, the crocus spik'd with gold ; And still (thank Heaven) if I not falsely deem, My lyre, yet vocal, freely can afford Strains not discordant to each moral theme Fair Truth inspires, and aid me to record (Best of poetic...