The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1926 - 727 pagine |
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Pagina 20
... round this Globe their Courses run ; If Human Things went Ill or Well ; If changing Empires rose or fell ; The Morning past , the Evening came , And found this Couple still the same . They Walk'd and Eat , good Folks : What then 20 ...
... round this Globe their Courses run ; If Human Things went Ill or Well ; If changing Empires rose or fell ; The Morning past , the Evening came , And found this Couple still the same . They Walk'd and Eat , good Folks : What then 20 ...
Pagina 22
... round the Year . Nor Tear , nor Smile did They imploy At News of Public Grief , or Joy . When Bells were Rung , and Bonfires made ; If ask'd , They ne'er deny'd their Aid : Their Jugg was to the Ringers carry'd ; Who ever either Dy'd ...
... round the Year . Nor Tear , nor Smile did They imploy At News of Public Grief , or Joy . When Bells were Rung , and Bonfires made ; If ask'd , They ne'er deny'd their Aid : Their Jugg was to the Ringers carry'd ; Who ever either Dy'd ...
Pagina 26
... round , as the wheel turn'd about , He found riches had wings , and knew man was but dust . This verse little polish'd , tho ' mighty sincere , Sets neither his titles nor merit to view ; It says that his relics collected lie here , And ...
... round , as the wheel turn'd about , He found riches had wings , and knew man was but dust . This verse little polish'd , tho ' mighty sincere , Sets neither his titles nor merit to view ; It says that his relics collected lie here , And ...
Pagina 37
... round her burn , And all the Planets , in their turn , Confirm the Tidings as they rowl , And spread the Truth from Pole to Pole . What though , in solemn Silence , all Move round the dark terrestrial Ball ? 26 What tho ' nor real Voice ...
... round her burn , And all the Planets , in their turn , Confirm the Tidings as they rowl , And spread the Truth from Pole to Pole . What though , in solemn Silence , all Move round the dark terrestrial Ball ? 26 What tho ' nor real Voice ...
Pagina 43
... round about him grew : But as those , who Stars wou'd trace From a subterranean Place , Through some Engine lift their Eyes To the outward , glorious Skies ; So th ' immortal Spirit may , When descended to our Clay , From a rightly ...
... round about him grew : But as those , who Stars wou'd trace From a subterranean Place , Through some Engine lift their Eyes To the outward , glorious Skies ; So th ' immortal Spirit may , When descended to our Clay , From a rightly ...
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Pagina 373 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — 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.
Pagina 55 - A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Pagina 551 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill.
Pagina 371 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to extasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress d their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Pagina 132 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes...
Pagina 120 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err...
Pagina 372 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Pagina 489 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Pagina 668 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Pagina 118 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men, what spirits know Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.