Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing OfficeJ. Walter, 1785 - 225 страници |
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... eyes , But ah ! how quick the shadows pass ! Tho ' the bright visions thro ' her glass Charm at a diftance ; yet , when near , The baseless fabricks disappear . Nor RICHES boast intrinsic worth , Their charms , at beft , fuperior earth ...
... eyes , But ah ! how quick the shadows pass ! Tho ' the bright visions thro ' her glass Charm at a diftance ; yet , when near , The baseless fabricks disappear . Nor RICHES boast intrinsic worth , Their charms , at beft , fuperior earth ...
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... eye - lids stole to reft ; When fancy re - affumed the theme , And furnish'd this instructive dream . I fail'd upon a ftormy fea , ( Thousands embark'd alike with me ) My skiff was small , and weak befide , Not built , methought , to ...
... eye - lids stole to reft ; When fancy re - affumed the theme , And furnish'd this instructive dream . I fail'd upon a ftormy fea , ( Thousands embark'd alike with me ) My skiff was small , and weak befide , Not built , methought , to ...
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... eyes ; The mirror , faithful to its charge , Reflects the virgin's foul in large . A VIRTUE , with a fofter air , Was hand - maid to the regal fair . This nymph , indulgent , conftant , kind , Derives from Heav'n her spotlefs mind ...
... eyes ; The mirror , faithful to its charge , Reflects the virgin's foul in large . A VIRTUE , with a fofter air , Was hand - maid to the regal fair . This nymph , indulgent , conftant , kind , Derives from Heav'n her spotlefs mind ...
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... eye defcry'd A pow'rful realm extended wide , Whose bound'ries from north - east begun , And stretch'd to meet the fouth - weft fun . Here FLATT'RY boafts defpotic fway , And bafks in all the warmth of day . Long practis'd in ...
... eye defcry'd A pow'rful realm extended wide , Whose bound'ries from north - east begun , And stretch'd to meet the fouth - weft fun . Here FLATT'RY boafts defpotic fway , And bafks in all the warmth of day . Long practis'd in ...
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... diffolute and vile ; And every tribe , like pagans , run To kneel before the rifing fun . But now fome clam'rous founds arife , And all the pleasing vision flies . Once : Once more I clos'd my eyes to fleep , 38 MISCELLANIES.
... diffolute and vile ; And every tribe , like pagans , run To kneel before the rifing fun . But now fome clam'rous founds arife , And all the pleasing vision flies . Once : Once more I clos'd my eyes to fleep , 38 MISCELLANIES.
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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...
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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.