The Works of the English Poets: Parnell and A. PhilipsH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure , if aught below the feats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : B 2 A ...
... fate , Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or , deeming meanest what we greatest call , Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall . And fure , if aught below the feats divine Can touch immortals , ' tis a foul like thine : B 2 A ...
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... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and fwiftly flow , Purfue thy thread ; the fpindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
... Fates explore , Then fix the loom , their fingers nimbly weave , And thus their toil prophetic fongs deceive . Flow from the rock , my flax ! and fwiftly flow , Purfue thy thread ; the fpindle runs below . A creature fond and changing ...
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... fate , Though when it happen'd no relation clears , Tis thought in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted shade The neighouring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair , for amorous play ...
... fate , Though when it happen'd no relation clears , Tis thought in five , or five and twenty years . Where , dark and filent , with a twisted shade The neighouring woods a native arbour made , There oft a tender pair , for amorous play ...
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... fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver , Cupid caus'd the deed ; " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . " ... SONG , G. SON WHEN thy beauty appears In its graces and THE RISE OF WOMAN . 13.
... fate to bleed ; " Without his quiver , Cupid caus'd the deed ; " He judg'd this turn of malice justly due , " And Hefiod dy'd for joys he never knew . " ... SONG , G. SON WHEN thy beauty appears In its graces and THE RISE OF WOMAN . 13.
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... the favourite fools of chance " By fortune feem defign'd ; " Virtue can gain the odds of fate , " And from itfelf fhake off the weight Upon th ' unworthy mind . " PER . THE VIGIL OF VENUS . Written in the time of 28 PARNELL'S POEM'S .
... the favourite fools of chance " By fortune feem defign'd ; " Virtue can gain the odds of fate , " And from itfelf fhake off the weight Upon th ' unworthy mind . " PER . THE VIGIL OF VENUS . Written in the time of 28 PARNELL'S POEM'S .
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Страница 80 - I'll lift my voice, and tune my ftring, And thee, great Source of Nature, fing. The fun that walks his airy way, To light the world, and give the day; The moon that mines with borrow'd light ; The ftars that gild the gloomy night, The feas that roll •unnumber'd waves; The wood that fpreads its
Страница 88 - its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loofe from drofs the filver runs below. Long had our pious friends in virtue trod, But now the child half-wean'd his heart from God j (Child of his age) for him he liv'd in pain, And meafur'd back his
Страница 87 - His youthful face grew more ferenely fweet ; His robe turn'd white, and flow'd upon his feet; Fair rounds of radiant points inveft his hair; Celeftial odours breathe through purpled air ; And wings, whofe colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes difplay. The form etherial burft upon his
Страница 88 - wretch, whofe bolted door Ne'er mov'd in duty to the wandering poor; With him I left the cup, to teach his mind That heaven can blefs, if mortals will be kind. Confcious of wanting worth, he views the bowl, And feels compaffion
Страница 81 - in thick diforder run. To clear this doubt, to know the world by fight, To find if books, or fwains, report it right, (For yet by fwains alone the world he knew, Whofe feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew) He quits his cell; the
Страница 86 - round his hall repair, Warn'd by a bell, and clofe the hours with prayer. At length the world, renew'd by calm repofe, Was ftrong for toil, the dappled morn arofe; Before the Pilgrims part, the younger crept, Near the clos'd cradle where an infant flept, And writh'd his
Страница 82 - way ! His raiment decent, his complexion fair, And foft in graceful ringlets wav'd his hair. Then near approaching, Father, hail! he cry'd. And hail, my Son, the reverend Sire reply'd ; Words follow'd words, from queftion anfwer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road
Страница 78 - and then perceives Thou wert not in the rocks and waves. The filent heart, which grief aflails, Treads foft and lonefome o'er the vales, . Sees daifies open, rivers run, And feeks (as I have vainly done) Amufing thought; but learns to know That Solitude 's the nurfe of woe. No real happinefs is found In trailing purple o'er the ground
Страница 76 - Thefe, all the poor remains of ftate, Adorn the rich, or praife the great; Who, while on earth in fame they live, Are fenfelefs of the fame they give. Ha! while I gaze, pale Cynthia fades, The burfting earth unveils the (hades ! All flow, and wan, and wrap'd with
Страница 27 - it o'er the place, They fit, they drink, and eat.; The time with frolic mirth beguile, And poor Sir Topaz hangs the while Till all the rout retreat. By this the ftars began to wink, They (hriek, they fly, the tapers fink, •And down y-drops the knight