Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing Office |
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... and oftner dwells With modest worth in humble cells ; There's no complaint , tho ' brown the bread , Or the cold stone sustain the head ; Tho ' hard the couch , and coarse the meat , Still the brown loaf and sleep are sweet .
... and oftner dwells With modest worth in humble cells ; There's no complaint , tho ' brown the bread , Or the cold stone sustain the head ; Tho ' hard the couch , and coarse the meat , Still the brown loaf and sleep are sweet .
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... Add but a friend to all this store , You can't in reason with for more : And if kind Heav'n this comfort brings , ' Tis more than Heav'n bestows on kings . He spake_The airy spectre flies , And strait the sweet illusion dies .
... Add but a friend to all this store , You can't in reason with for more : And if kind Heav'n this comfort brings , ' Tis more than Heav'n bestows on kings . He spake_The airy spectre flies , And strait the sweet illusion dies .
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RIENDSHIP ! thou soft , propitious pow'r , Sweet regent of the social hour ! Sublime the joys , nor understood , But by the virtuous and the good ! CABAL and RIOT take thy name , But ' tis a falfe affected claim .
RIENDSHIP ! thou soft , propitious pow'r , Sweet regent of the social hour ! Sublime the joys , nor understood , But by the virtuous and the good ! CABAL and RIOT take thy name , But ' tis a falfe affected claim .
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Through youth and age in love excelling , We'll hand in hand together tread ; Sweet smiling peace shall crown our dwelling , And babes , sweet smiling babes our bed . How should I love the pretty creatures , While round my knees they ...
Through youth and age in love excelling , We'll hand in hand together tread ; Sweet smiling peace shall crown our dwelling , And babes , sweet smiling babes our bed . How should I love the pretty creatures , While round my knees they ...
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Tho ' fools fpurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs , We , who improve his golden hours , By sweet experience know , That marriage , rightly understood , Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below . 1 + Our babes shall richest comforts bring ...
Tho ' fools fpurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs , We , who improve his golden hours , By sweet experience know , That marriage , rightly understood , Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below . 1 + Our babes shall richest comforts bring ...
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Страница 142 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Страница 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Страница 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Страница 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Страница 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Страница 142 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Страница 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Страница 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Страница 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Страница 142 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.