A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volumen 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... Muses fing . Though minifters of mighty monarchs wait , With beating hearts , to learn their masters ' fate , One hour forbear to fpeak thy Queen's commands , Nor think the world , thy charge , neglected stands ; The blissful profpects ...
... Muses fing . Though minifters of mighty monarchs wait , With beating hearts , to learn their masters ' fate , One hour forbear to fpeak thy Queen's commands , Nor think the world , thy charge , neglected stands ; The blissful profpects ...
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... Muse . A voice , like thine alone , might then affuage The warrior's fury , and controul his rage ; To hear thee speak might the fierce Vandal stand , And fling the brandifh'd fabre from his hand . Far Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ...
... Muse . A voice , like thine alone , might then affuage The warrior's fury , and controul his rage ; To hear thee speak might the fierce Vandal stand , And fling the brandifh'd fabre from his hand . Far Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ...
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... And courtly BOLINGBROKE , the Muse's friend ) With piercing eye fome fearch where nature plays , And trace the wanton through her darksome maze ; Whence I Whence health from herbs ; from feeds how groves begun ( 26 )
... And courtly BOLINGBROKE , the Muse's friend ) With piercing eye fome fearch where nature plays , And trace the wanton through her darksome maze ; Whence I Whence health from herbs ; from feeds how groves begun ( 26 )
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... Muse hath staid , And left her debt to Addison unpaid ; Blame not her filence , Warwick , but bemoan , And judge , oh judge , my bofom by your own . What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires ...
... Muse hath staid , And left her debt to Addison unpaid ; Blame not her filence , Warwick , but bemoan , And judge , oh judge , my bofom by your own . What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse , that real woe inspires ...
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... Muse's art I found ; Reluctant now I touch the trembling string , Bereft of him , who taught me how to fing ; And these fad accents , murmur'd o'er his urn , Betray that abfence they attempt to mourn . Oh ! muft I then ( now fresh my ...
... Muse's art I found ; Reluctant now I touch the trembling string , Bereft of him , who taught me how to fing ; And these fad accents , murmur'd o'er his urn , Betray that abfence they attempt to mourn . Oh ! muft I then ( now fresh my ...
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Página 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Página 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Página 215 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Página 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Página 209 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Página 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Página 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Página 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Página 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.