A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Том 6J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... natural and to the moral world . Their origin is deduced from the firft allegorical deities , or powers of nature ; according to the doctrine of the old mythological poets , concerning the generation of the Gods and the rife of things ...
... natural and to the moral world . Their origin is deduced from the firft allegorical deities , or powers of nature ; according to the doctrine of the old mythological poets , concerning the generation of the Gods and the rife of things ...
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... nature , Jove repays With generous wealth and his own feat on earth , Fit judgments to pronounce , and curb the might Of wicked men . Your kind unfailing urns Not vainly to the hospitable arts Of Hermes yield their store . For , O ye ...
... nature , Jove repays With generous wealth and his own feat on earth , Fit judgments to pronounce , and curb the might Of wicked men . Your kind unfailing urns Not vainly to the hospitable arts Of Hermes yield their store . For , O ye ...
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... nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your gentle aid Hygeia well can witnefs ; she who faves , From poisonous cates and cups of pleafing bane , The wretch devoted to the ...
... nature : to the works of peace More prone , and lenient of the many ills Which wait on human life . Your gentle aid Hygeia well can witnefs ; she who faves , From poisonous cates and cups of pleafing bane , The wretch devoted to the ...
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... theme , Whose heart muft every strong emotion know By nature planted , or by fortune taught ; That He , if haply fome presumptuous foe , With false ignoble science fraught , Shall Shall fpurn at freedom's faithful band ; That He , ( 26 )
... theme , Whose heart muft every strong emotion know By nature planted , or by fortune taught ; That He , if haply fome presumptuous foe , With false ignoble science fraught , Shall Shall fpurn at freedom's faithful band ; That He , ( 26 )
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... Nature to her offspring call , That to one general weal their different powers they bend , Unenvious . Thus alone , though strains divine Inform the bofom of the Muse's fon ; Though with new honours the patrician's line Advance from age ...
... Nature to her offspring call , That to one general weal their different powers they bend , Unenvious . Thus alone , though strains divine Inform the bofom of the Muse's fon ; Though with new honours the patrician's line Advance from age ...
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Страница 387 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pidur'd urn Thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban Eagle bear Sailing with
Страница 391 - Thy fon is gone. He refts among the Dead. " The Swarm, that in thy noon-tide beam were born, " Gone to falute the rifing Morn. " Fair laughs the Morn, and foft the Zephyr blows, " While proudly riding o'er the azure realm
Страница 386 - This pencil take (fhe faid) whofe colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine too thefe golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horrour that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the facred fource of fympathetic Tears. III. 2.
Страница 384 - II. i. Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Difeafe, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate ! The fond complaint, my Song, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say, has he given in vain the heav'nly Mufe ? Night, and all her fickly dews, Her
Страница 387 - tis heard no more — Oh! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban Eagle bear Sailing with fupreme dominion Through the azure deep of air: Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Mufe's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the
Страница 389 - (Loofe his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air) And with a Matter's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep forrows of his lyre. * Hark, how each giant-oak, and defart cave, * Sighs to the torrent's
Страница 390 - The characters of hell to trace. " Mark the year, and mark the night, " When Severn fhall re-echo with affright " The fhrieks of death, through Berkley's roofs that ring, " Shrieks of an agonizing King! " She-Wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,
Страница 382 - A WAKE, /Eolian lyre, awake, * And give to rapture all thy trembling firings. From Helicon's harmonious fprings A thoufand rills their mazy progrefs take: The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the ; rich ftream of mufic winds along Deep, majeftic, fmooth and ftrong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres' golden reign: Now rolling down the
Страница 390 - they lie, * Smear'd with gore, and ghaftly pale: * Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens fail; * The famifh'd Eagle fcreams, and paffes by. * Dear loft companions of my tuneful art, * Dear, as the light, that vifits thefe fad eyes, * Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, ' Ye died amidft your dying country's cries — ' No more I weep. They do not deep.
Страница 391 - From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs *' The fcourge of Heav'n. What Terrors round him wait! ** Amazement in his van, with Flight combin'd, " And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind. II. 2. " Mighty Victor, mighty Lord, " Low on his funeral couch he lies ! " No pitying heart, no eye afford " A tear to grace his obfequies. »** Is the fable