A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield. Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Granville. YaldenJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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... glory take their flight , And frail affections , born of earth , decay , Like weeds that wither in the warmer ray . I thank thee , Father ! with a grateful mind : Man's undeserving , and thy mercy kind . I now perceive , I long to fing ...
... glory take their flight , And frail affections , born of earth , decay , Like weeds that wither in the warmer ray . I thank thee , Father ! with a grateful mind : Man's undeserving , and thy mercy kind . I now perceive , I long to fing ...
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... glory go . ; Oh , grateful Miriam , in thy temper wrought , Too warm for filence , or inventing thought ; Thy part of anthem was to warble o'er , In fweet response what Mofes fung before . Thou ledit the public voice to join his lays ...
... glory go . ; Oh , grateful Miriam , in thy temper wrought , Too warm for filence , or inventing thought ; Thy part of anthem was to warble o'er , In fweet response what Mofes fung before . Thou ledit the public voice to join his lays ...
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... glory fair , Like a wreath'd pillar , curl itself in air ! Behold it hovering just above the door , And Mofes meekly kneeling on the floor . But if the gazing turn thy edge of fight , And darkness fpring from unfupported light , Then ...
... glory fair , Like a wreath'd pillar , curl itself in air ! Behold it hovering just above the door , And Mofes meekly kneeling on the floor . But if the gazing turn thy edge of fight , And darkness fpring from unfupported light , Then ...
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... glory vaunted , and their power deny'd , While thus they boaft , our arm has fhewn us brave , And God did nothing , for he could not fave . So fond their thoughts are , fo remote of fenfe , And blind in every course of Providence . O ...
... glory vaunted , and their power deny'd , While thus they boaft , our arm has fhewn us brave , And God did nothing , for he could not fave . So fond their thoughts are , fo remote of fenfe , And blind in every course of Providence . O ...
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... glory double - gilds the lightsome day . Though nations change , and Ifrael's empire dies , Yet ftill the cafe on earth again may rise ; Eternal Providence its rule retains , And still preferves , and ftill applies the strains . ' Twas ...
... glory double - gilds the lightsome day . Though nations change , and Ifrael's empire dies , Yet ftill the cafe on earth again may rise ; Eternal Providence its rule retains , And still preferves , and ftill applies the strains . ' Twas ...
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Страница 5 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Страница 295 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above, (Such is the power of mighty love.) A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spires he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Страница 310 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Страница 472 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Страница 211 - For though in dreadful whirls we hung High on the broken wave, I knew thou wert not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.
Страница 237 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 130 - Then to her new love let her go, And deck her in golden array, Be finest at...
Страница 414 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
Страница 224 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng"d legions, and charge home upon him.
Страница 6 - Now sunk the sun ; the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober...