A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Том 1 |
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Fir ' d with the views this glittring scene displays , And smit with passion for my
country ' s praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Isis
rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster ' d domes , the great Philippa ' s pride ,
Where ...
Fir ' d with the views this glittring scene displays , And smit with passion for my
country ' s praise , My artless reed attempts this lofty theme , Where facred Isis
rolls her ancient stream ; In cloyster ' d domes , the great Philippa ' s pride ,
Where ...
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Repast ill suited to such diff ' rent guests , For what thy sense desires , thy soul
distastes ; Thy lust , thy curiosity , thy pride , Curb ' d , or deferr ' d , or balk ' d , or
gratify ' d , Rage on , and make thee equally unbless ' d , In what thou want ' st ...
Repast ill suited to such diff ' rent guests , For what thy sense desires , thy soul
distastes ; Thy lust , thy curiosity , thy pride , Curb ' d , or deferr ' d , or balk ' d , or
gratify ' d , Rage on , and make thee equally unbless ' d , In what thou want ' st ...
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Just what is elegantly useful ' s there ; Of aught beyond he scorns th ' unworthy
care ; Nor would , for all the trim that pride can show , One single act of social aid
forego ; For this he labors to improve his store , ' For this he wishes to enlarge his
...
Just what is elegantly useful ' s there ; Of aught beyond he scorns th ' unworthy
care ; Nor would , for all the trim that pride can show , One single act of social aid
forego ; For this he labors to improve his store , ' For this he wishes to enlarge his
...
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But if that pride it be , which thus inspires , Beware , ye dames , with nice
discernment see , Ye quench not too the sparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far
than all the Muses ' lyres , All coward arts , is valour ' s gen ' rous heat ; The firm
fixt breast ...
But if that pride it be , which thus inspires , Beware , ye dames , with nice
discernment see , Ye quench not too the sparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far
than all the Muses ' lyres , All coward arts , is valour ' s gen ' rous heat ; The firm
fixt breast ...
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Yet , spite of all the fools that pride has made , ' Tis not on man an useless
burthen laid ; Pride has ennobled some , and some disgrac ' d ; It hurts not in
itself , but as ' tis plac ' d ; When right , its view knows none but virtue ' s bound ;
When ...
Yet , spite of all the fools that pride has made , ' Tis not on man an useless
burthen laid ; Pride has ennobled some , and some disgrac ' d ; It hurts not in
itself , but as ' tis plac ' d ; When right , its view knows none but virtue ' s bound ;
When ...
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Страница 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Страница 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Страница 215 - 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.
Страница 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Страница 209 - 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.
Страница 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Страница 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Страница 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Страница 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Страница 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.