The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 55Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... hope , That breathes from day to day fublimer things , And mocks poffeffion ? wherefore darts the mind , With fuch refiftlefs ardour to embrace 170 Majestic forms ; impatient to be free , Spurning the grofs control of wilful might ...
... hope , That breathes from day to day fublimer things , And mocks poffeffion ? wherefore darts the mind , With fuch refiftlefs ardour to embrace 170 Majestic forms ; impatient to be free , Spurning the grofs control of wilful might ...
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... hope that shines upon your hearts , Be chill'd or clouded at this awful task , To learn the lore of undeceitful good , And truth eternal . Though the poisonous charms Of baleful fuperftition guide the feet Of fervile numbers , through a ...
... hope that shines upon your hearts , Be chill'd or clouded at this awful task , To learn the lore of undeceitful good , And truth eternal . Though the poisonous charms Of baleful fuperftition guide the feet Of fervile numbers , through a ...
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... hope , nor praife , nor honour . Her the fire 385 Gave it in charge to rear the blooming mind , The folded powers to open , to direct The growth luxuriant of his young defires , And from the laws of this majestic world To teach him what ...
... hope , nor praife , nor honour . Her the fire 385 Gave it in charge to rear the blooming mind , The folded powers to open , to direct The growth luxuriant of his young defires , And from the laws of this majestic world To teach him what ...
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... hope for tinsel charms ; Hence oft obtrufive on the eye of scorn , Untimely zeal her witless pride betrays ! And serious manhood from the towering aim Of Wisdom , stoops to emulate the boast Of childish toil . Behold yon myftic form ...
... hope for tinsel charms ; Hence oft obtrufive on the eye of scorn , Untimely zeal her witless pride betrays ! And serious manhood from the towering aim Of Wisdom , stoops to emulate the boast Of childish toil . Behold yon myftic form ...
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... hope The tender plant should rear its blooming head , Or yield the harvest promis'd in its spring . Nor yet will every foil with equal ftores Repay the tiller's labour ; or attend 549 His will , obfequious , whether to produce The olive ...
... hope The tender plant should rear its blooming head , Or yield the harvest promis'd in its spring . Nor yet will every foil with equal ftores Repay the tiller's labour ; or attend 549 His will , obfequious , whether to produce The olive ...
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Страница 296 - The language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying.
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Страница 277 - Nymphs, from my delighted lyre, Accept the rites your bounty well may claim ; Nor heed the scoffings of the Edonian band.
Страница 19 - She darts her swiftness up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning signs Exulting measures the perennial wheel Of Nature, and looks back on all the stars, Whose blended light, as with a milky zone, Invests the orient. Now amazed she views The empyreal waste...
Страница 220 - Such rites, which they with Spring renew, The eyes of care can never view ; And care hath long been mine : And hence offended with their guest, Since grief of love my soul oppress'd, They hide their toils divine.
Страница 18 - And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?