A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Том 3

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J. Hughs, 1765
 

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Страница 241 - Fortune's gem, Ambition's plume, Nor Cytherea's fading bloom, Be objects of my pray'r : Let Av'rice, Vanity, and Pride, These glitt'ring envy'd toys divide, The dull rewards of Care. To me thy better gifts impart, Each moral beauty of the heart By studious thought refin'd : For Wealth, the smiles of glad Content, For Pow'r, its amplest, best extent, An empire o'er my mind.
Страница 6 - HAIL, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good, But, from whose holy, piercing eye, The herd of fools and villains fly.
Страница 128 - Peace resort, And Venus keeps her festive court, Where Mirth and Youth each evening meet, And lightly trip with nimble feet, Nodding their lily-crowned heads, Where Laughter rose-lip'd Hebe leads...
Страница 150 - Enough to diflocate one's bones, We home return, a wond'rous token Of Heaven's kind care, with limbs unbroken. Afflict us not, ye Gods, tho...
Страница 226 - From long dedications to patrons unworthy, Who hear and receive, but will do nothing for thee : From being...
Страница 15 - Ev'n on her fhade a confcious look fhc threw: Then all around her caft a carelefs glance, To mark what gazing eyes her beauty drew. As they came near, before that other maid Approaching decent, eagerly...
Страница 330 - Heroes are much the fame, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede...
Страница 203 - The daily bounties of their Maker's care; The great Creator from his heav'nly throne, Pleas'd, on the wide-expanded joy looks down, And his eternal law is only this, That all contribute to the general blifs. Nature...
Страница 200 - Severely humbled to her one-horfe chair, And the low paftimes of a country fair: Too wretched to endure one lonely day, Too proud one friendly vifit to repay, Too indolent to read, too criminal to pray. At length half dead, half mad, and quite confin'd, Shunning, and...
Страница 125 - Then Wisdom's hoary head, with crutch in hand, Trembling, and bent with age; last, Virtue's self, Smiling, in white array'd, who with her leads Sweet Innocence, that prattles by her side, A naked boy!

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