Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volumen 3Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807 "These volumes are intended to accompany Mr. Ellis's ... Specimens of the early English poets. That series concludes with reign of Charles II, this begins with that of James his successor."-- Preface. |
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... HE , Shall deign my love - lorn tale to hear , Shall catch the soft contagion of my song , And pay the pensive Muse the tribute of a tear . * Lord Lyttleton . B 3 GEORGE CANNING . 1771 . An Irish Gentleman , father CUTIIBERT SHAW .
... HE , Shall deign my love - lorn tale to hear , Shall catch the soft contagion of my song , And pay the pensive Muse the tribute of a tear . * Lord Lyttleton . B 3 GEORGE CANNING . 1771 . An Irish Gentleman , father CUTIIBERT SHAW .
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... hear his people ; for their voice is God's ! Cease then your wiles , ye fawning courtiers ! cease , Suffer your rulers to repose in peace ; By Reason led , give proper names to things , God made them men , the people made them kings ...
... hear his people ; for their voice is God's ! Cease then your wiles , ye fawning courtiers ! cease , Suffer your rulers to repose in peace ; By Reason led , give proper names to things , God made them men , the people made them kings ...
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... hear'st not , Lord ! an hypocrite complain , And sure with thee hypocrisy were vain ; To thy all - piercing eye the ... Hear then , Jehovah , hear thy servant's prayer ! Be England's welfare thy peculiar.care ! Defend her laws , her ...
... hear'st not , Lord ! an hypocrite complain , And sure with thee hypocrisy were vain ; To thy all - piercing eye the ... Hear then , Jehovah , hear thy servant's prayer ! Be England's welfare thy peculiar.care ! Defend her laws , her ...
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... hear thy people's call ! Nor for one man let three great kingdoms fall ! O ! that my blood may glut the barbarous rage Of Freedom's foes , and England's ills assuage ! — Grant but that prayer , I ask for no repeal , A willing victim for ...
... hear thy people's call ! Nor for one man let three great kingdoms fall ! O ! that my blood may glut the barbarous rage Of Freedom's foes , and England's ills assuage ! — Grant but that prayer , I ask for no repeal , A willing victim for ...
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... hear , Too roughly kind to please a lady's ear , Unlike the flatteries of a lover's pen , Such truths as women seldom learn from men . Nor think I praise you ill , when thus I show What female vanity might fear to know . Some merit's ...
... hear , Too roughly kind to please a lady's ear , Unlike the flatteries of a lover's pen , Such truths as women seldom learn from men . Nor think I praise you ill , when thus I show What female vanity might fear to know . Some merit's ...
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beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom bosom bower Bramble brave breast bright charms cheek cries crown'd DAVID GARRICK dear death delight ECLOGUE eyes fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flow flowers fond glow grace grave grief groan grove hand happy haste hear heart Heaven hey derry honour hour JAMES BOSWELL JOSEPH WARTON labour Lady Craven light live Lord lover magick maid mind morn mournful Muse NATHANIEL COTTON Nature's ne'er night numbers o'er pain pale passion peace pensive pleasure Poems poison'd praise pride rage RICHARD GLOVER rise ROBERT SOUTHEY round scene scorn shade shore sigh sight skies smile Soame Jenyns soft song SONNET sorrow soul strain stream sweet tears tender thee thine THOMAS BLACKLOCK thou thought thro toil trembling true lover's knot truth turn'd Twas virtue Yarrow youth
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Página 77 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 467 - Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 469 - All this, and, more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall — Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes ; All this, still legible in memory's page. And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may — Perhaps a. frail memorial, but sincere — Not scorned in heaven, though little noticed here.
Página 467 - But gladly, as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss: Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile! it...
Página 385 - ... baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state...
Página 295 - HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove! Thou messenger of spring ! Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat, And woods thy welcome sing. What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Página 74 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great : Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by...
Página 470 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine ; And, while the wings of fancy still are free, And I can view...
Página 468 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my...
Página 292 - The green-wood path to meet her brother; They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow. No longer from thy window look — Thou hast no son, thou tender mother! No longer walk, thou lovely maid ; Alas, thou hast no more a brother ! No longer seek him east or west And search no more the forest thorough; For, wandering in the night so dark, He fell a lifeless corpse in Yarrow.