A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Volumen 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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... o'er the sword prevail . So when great Mofes , with JEHOVAH's wand , Had scatter'd plagues o'er ftubborn Pharaoh's land , Now spread an host of locufts round the shore , Now turn'd Nile's fatt'ning ftreams to putrid gore ; Plenty and ...
... o'er the sword prevail . So when great Mofes , with JEHOVAH's wand , Had scatter'd plagues o'er ftubborn Pharaoh's land , Now spread an host of locufts round the shore , Now turn'd Nile's fatt'ning ftreams to putrid gore ; Plenty and ...
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... o'er ev'ry wound ; Hangs on the lips that fields of blood relate , And smiles , and trembles , at his various fate . Near the full bowl he draws the fancied line , And marks feign'd trenches in the flowing wine , Then • Then fets th ...
... o'er ev'ry wound ; Hangs on the lips that fields of blood relate , And smiles , and trembles , at his various fate . Near the full bowl he draws the fancied line , And marks feign'd trenches in the flowing wine , Then • Then fets th ...
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... O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs luxuriant cloath the harmless mine , Tame flocks afcend the breach without a wound , Or crop the bastion , now a fruitful ground ; While fhepherds fleep , along the rampart laid ...
... O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs luxuriant cloath the harmless mine , Tame flocks afcend the breach without a wound , Or crop the bastion , now a fruitful ground ; While fhepherds fleep , along the rampart laid ...
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... O'er wafted kingdoms fpread his wide command , The favage lord of an unpeopled land . Her guiltless glory juft Britannia draws From pure religion , and impartial laws : To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal ...
... O'er wafted kingdoms fpread his wide command , The favage lord of an unpeopled land . Her guiltless glory juft Britannia draws From pure religion , and impartial laws : To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal ...
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... o'er the boundless main . Now o'er his head the polar bear he spies , And freezing fpangles of the Lapland skies ; Now fwells his canvas to the fultry line , With glitt'ring spoils where Indian grottoes shine ; VOL . I. B Where Where ...
... o'er the boundless main . Now o'er his head the polar bear he spies , And freezing fpangles of the Lapland skies ; Now fwells his canvas to the fultry line , With glitt'ring spoils where Indian grottoes shine ; VOL . I. B Where Where ...
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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.