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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... that's mine ! No , never from this hour to part , • We'll live and love fo true ; • The figh that rends thy constant heart , Shall break thy Edwin's too . ' ON ON DIGNITY OF MANNERS . THE HERE is a certain 52 MISCELLANIES.
... that's mine ! No , never from this hour to part , • We'll live and love fo true ; • The figh that rends thy constant heart , Shall break thy Edwin's too . ' ON ON DIGNITY OF MANNERS . THE HERE is a certain 52 MISCELLANIES.
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... let his merits be what they will . This dignity of manners , which I recommend fo much to you , is not only as different from pride , as true courage courage is from bluftering , or true wit from joking 54 MISCELLANIES.
... let his merits be what they will . This dignity of manners , which I recommend fo much to you , is not only as different from pride , as true courage courage is from bluftering , or true wit from joking 54 MISCELLANIES.
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At the Logographic Printing Office John Walter. courage is from bluftering , or true wit from joking , but is abfolutely incon- sistent with it ; for nothing vilifies and degrades more than pride . The pre- tenfions of the proud man are ...
At the Logographic Printing Office John Walter. courage is from bluftering , or true wit from joking , but is abfolutely incon- sistent with it ; for nothing vilifies and degrades more than pride . The pre- tenfions of the proud man are ...
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... characters and languages , that Longinus has made the test of the true fublime ; and he might with equal justice have extended the fame crite- criterion to all the inferior excellen- cies of elegant compofition 62 MISCELLANIES.
... characters and languages , that Longinus has made the test of the true fublime ; and he might with equal justice have extended the fame crite- criterion to all the inferior excellen- cies of elegant compofition 62 MISCELLANIES.
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... true love calls , Come from her midnight - grave ; Now let thy pity hear the maid , Thy love refus'd to fave . This is the dumb and dreary hour , When injur'd ghosts complain ; When yawning graves give up their dead , To haunt the ...
... true love calls , Come from her midnight - grave ; Now let thy pity hear the maid , Thy love refus'd to fave . This is the dumb and dreary hour , When injur'd ghosts complain ; When yawning graves give up their dead , To haunt the ...
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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 - 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.