A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies of vols. 5,6].1766 |
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... scenes less nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious Mufe delight , Content to fee the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er fhatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs ...
... scenes less nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious Mufe delight , Content to fee the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er fhatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs ...
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... scene shall footh thy foul to reft , And wear each dreadful image from thy breast ; With pleasure , by thy conquests shalt thou fee Thy Queen triumphant , and all Europe free ; No cares henceforth fhall thy repose destroy , But what ...
... scene shall footh thy foul to reft , And wear each dreadful image from thy breast ; With pleasure , by thy conquests shalt thou fee Thy Queen triumphant , and all Europe free ; No cares henceforth fhall thy repose destroy , But what ...
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... scene difplays , And fmit with paffion for my country's praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Ifis rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster'd domes , the great Philippa's pride , Where learning blooms , while ...
... scene difplays , And fmit with paffion for my country's praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Ifis rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster'd domes , the great Philippa's pride , Where learning blooms , while ...
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... scene of wars , and ftain'd with lovers ' blood . You , who through gazing crowds , your captive throng , Throw pangs and paffions , as you move along , Turn on the left , ye fair , your radiant eyes , Where all unlevell'd the gay ...
... scene of wars , and ftain'd with lovers ' blood . You , who through gazing crowds , your captive throng , Throw pangs and paffions , as you move along , Turn on the left , ye fair , your radiant eyes , Where all unlevell'd the gay ...
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... scenes , He builds a city as he plants his greens . With a fad pleasure the aërial maid This image of her ancient realm survey'd ; How chang'd , how fallen from its primæval pride ! Yet here each moon , the hour her lover dy'd , Each ...
... scenes , He builds a city as he plants his greens . With a fad pleasure the aërial maid This image of her ancient realm survey'd ; How chang'd , how fallen from its primæval pride ! Yet here each moon , the hour her lover dy'd , Each ...
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Page 242 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Page 325 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 216 - Trees unnumber'd rise, Beautiful in various Dyes : The gloomy Pine, the Poplar blue, The yellow Beech, the sable Yew, The slender Fir...
Page 326 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 324 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Page 139 - And may my humble dwelling stand Upon some chosen spot of land : A pond before full to the brim, Where cows may cool, and geese may swim; Behind, a green like velvet neat, Soft to the eye, and to the feet; Where od'rous plants in evening fair Breathe all around ambrosial air...
Page 194 - 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 217 - And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep...
Page 217 - 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 200 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.