The Works of the English Poets: AkensideH. Hughs, 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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Samuel Johnson. Did fancy mock your vows . Nor let the gleam Of youthful 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 ...
Samuel Johnson. Did fancy mock your vows . Nor let the gleam Of youthful 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 ...
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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 tinfel charms ; Hence oft obtrusive on the eye of scorn , Untimely zeal her witlefs pride betrays ! And ferious manhood from the towering aim Of Wisdom , stoops to emulate the boast Of childish toil . Behold yon mystic form ...
... hope for tinfel charms ; Hence oft obtrusive on the eye of scorn , Untimely zeal her witlefs pride betrays ! And ferious manhood from the towering aim Of Wisdom , stoops to emulate the boast Of childish toil . Behold yon mystic 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 stores Repay the tiller's labour ; or attend 540 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 stores Repay the tiller's labour ; or attend 540 His will , obfequious , whether to produce The olive ...
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Страница 82 - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being ; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Страница 80 - Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground. When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from his lowest bed, Heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky ; Amid the mighty uproar, while below The nations tremble, SHAKSPEARE looks abroad From some high cliff, superior, and enjoys The elemental war.
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Страница 81 - Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.
Страница 74 - O'er these mixt treasures of his pregnant breast, With conscious pride. From them he oft resolves To frame he knows not what excelling things ; And win he knows not what sublime reward Of praise and wonder.
Страница 68 - Thee too, facetious Momion, wandering here, Thee, dreaded censor, oft have I beheld Bewilder'd unawares : alas ! too long Flush'd with thy comic triumphs and the spoils Of sly Derision ! till on every side Hurling thy random bolts, offended Truth Assign'd thee here thy station with the slaves Of Folly.
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