A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volumen 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... mind , And warring pow'rs in friendly leagues combin'd ; While ease and pleasure make the nations smile , And heav'n and ANNA blefs Britannia's ifle . Well fends our Queen her mitred BRISTOL forth , For early counfels fam'd , and long ...
... mind , And warring pow'rs in friendly leagues combin'd ; While ease and pleasure make the nations smile , And heav'n and ANNA blefs Britannia's ifle . Well fends our Queen her mitred BRISTOL forth , For early counfels fam'd , and long ...
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... minds , howe'er at war , are fecret friends , Their gen'rous difcord with the battle ends In peace they wonder whence diffention rofe , And afk how fouls fo like could e'er be foes . I Methinks Methinks I hear more friendly fhouts ...
... minds , howe'er at war , are fecret friends , Their gen'rous difcord with the battle ends In peace they wonder whence diffention rofe , And afk how fouls fo like could e'er be foes . I Methinks Methinks I hear more friendly fhouts ...
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... thy image free , And mirth a torment , unchaftis'd by thee . Oft let me range the gloomy ifles alone , ( Sad luxury ! to vulgar minds unknown ) Along Along the walls where speaking marbles fhow What worthies form ( 30 )
... thy image free , And mirth a torment , unchaftis'd by thee . Oft let me range the gloomy ifles alone , ( Sad luxury ! to vulgar minds unknown ) Along Along the walls where speaking marbles fhow What worthies form ( 30 )
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... mind ? A winged virtue , through th ' etherial fky , From world to world unweary'd does he fly , Or curious trace the long laborious maze Of heav'n's decrees , where wond'ring angels gaze ? Does he delight to hear bold feraphs tell ...
... mind ? A winged virtue , through th ' etherial fky , From world to world unweary'd does he fly , Or curious trace the long laborious maze Of heav'n's decrees , where wond'ring angels gaze ? Does he delight to hear bold feraphs tell ...
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... mind that grasps the whole is rarely found , Half learn'd , half painters , and half wits abound ; Few , like thy genius , at proportion aim , All great , all graceful , and throughout the same . Such be thy life . O fince the glorious ...
... mind that grasps the whole is rarely found , Half learn'd , half painters , and half wits abound ; Few , like thy genius , at proportion aim , All great , all graceful , and throughout the same . Such be thy life . O fince the glorious ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.