Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 3John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 pagine |
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Pagina 7
... desire . At last divine Cecilia came , Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast , from her sacred store , Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds , And added length to solemn sounds , With Nature's mother - wit , and arts unknown ...
... desire . At last divine Cecilia came , Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast , from her sacred store , Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds , And added length to solemn sounds , With Nature's mother - wit , and arts unknown ...
Pagina 18
... desires , I lov'd the lady first . Canst thou pretend desire , whom zeal inflam'd To worship , and a power celestial nam'd ? Thine was devotion to the blest above , I saw the woman , and desir'd her love ; First own'd my passion , and ...
... desires , I lov'd the lady first . Canst thou pretend desire , whom zeal inflam'd To worship , and a power celestial nam'd ? Thine was devotion to the blest above , I saw the woman , and desir'd her love ; First own'd my passion , and ...
Pagina 21
... desire : Some pray for riches ; riches they obtain ; But , watch'd by robbers , for their wealth are slain ; Some pray from prison to be freed ; and come , When guilty of their vows , to fall at home ; Murder'd by those they trusted ...
... desire : Some pray for riches ; riches they obtain ; But , watch'd by robbers , for their wealth are slain ; Some pray from prison to be freed ; and come , When guilty of their vows , to fall at home ; Murder'd by those they trusted ...
Pagina 23
... desires , fulfil ; Then when the creature is unjustly slain , Yet after death at least he feels no pain ; But man , in life surcharg'd with woe before , Not freed when dead , is doom'd to suffer more . A serpent shoots his sting at ...
... desires , fulfil ; Then when the creature is unjustly slain , Yet after death at least he feels no pain ; But man , in life surcharg'd with woe before , Not freed when dead , is doom'd to suffer more . A serpent shoots his sting at ...
Pagina 25
... Desire : But full of museful mopings , which presage The loss of reason , and conclude in rage . This when he had endur'd a year and more , Now wholly changed from what he was before , It happen'd once , that , slumbering as he lay , He ...
... Desire : But full of museful mopings , which presage The loss of reason , and conclude in rage . This when he had endur'd a year and more , Now wholly changed from what he was before , It happen'd once , that , slumbering as he lay , He ...
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Pagina 2 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Pagina 3 - Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Pagina 104 - Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd. For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky; And oft, with holy hymns, he charm'd their ears: (A music more melodious than the spheres.) For David left him, when he went to rest, His lyre; and after him he sung the best.
Pagina 213 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm...
Pagina 6 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Pagina 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Pagina 276 - Murmuring he lifts his eyes, and thinks it hard That generous actions meet a base reward. While thus they pass, the sun his glory shrouds, The changing skies hang out their sable clouds ; A sound in air presag'd approaching rain, And beasts to covert scud across the plain. Warn'd by the signs, the wandering pair retreat To seek for shelter at a neighboring seat.
Pagina 209 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Pagina 169 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire ; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing, And wanted yet an omen to the spring. " Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay ; In narrow mazes oft it seem'd to meet, . And look'd as lightly ^press'd by fairy feet.
Pagina 274 - 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.