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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... most for poverty of spirit . You relish not the great man's lot ? Come then , I'll take thee to my cot . Think me not partial to the great , I'm a fworn foe to pride and state : No monarchs fhare my kind embrace ; There's fcarce a ...
... most for poverty of spirit . You relish not the great man's lot ? Come then , I'll take thee to my cot . Think me not partial to the great , I'm a fworn foe to pride and state : No monarchs fhare my kind embrace ; There's fcarce a ...
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... most obtain , Who prize their duty more than gain ; Soft flow the hours whene'er we meet , And confcious virtue is our treat ; Our harmless breasts no envy know , And hence we fear no fecret foe ; Our walks ambition ne'er attends , And ...
... most obtain , Who prize their duty more than gain ; Soft flow the hours whene'er we meet , And confcious virtue is our treat ; Our harmless breasts no envy know , And hence we fear no fecret foe ; Our walks ambition ne'er attends , And ...
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... VIRTUES here ; Adorn'd with every blooming grace , Without one wrinkle in her face . But PRUDENCE most attracts the fight , And fines pre - eminently bright . IT Τα To view her various thoughts that rise , She holds 34 MISCELLANIES.
... VIRTUES here ; Adorn'd with every blooming grace , Without one wrinkle in her face . But PRUDENCE most attracts the fight , And fines pre - eminently bright . IT Τα To view her various thoughts that rise , She holds 34 MISCELLANIES.
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... most their fov'reign's cause . The minds of all were fraught with guile , Their manners 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 ...
... most their fov'reign's cause . The minds of all were fraught with guile , Their manners 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 ...
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... most valuable character either respected or refpectable . Horse play , romping , frequent and loud fits of laughing , jokes , waggery , and indifcriminate familiarity , will fink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt . They ...
... most valuable character either respected or refpectable . Horse play , romping , frequent and loud fits of laughing , jokes , waggery , and indifcriminate familiarity , will fink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt . They ...
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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...
Страница 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Страница 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Страница 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
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.