A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volumen 1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1755 |
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... Thro ' breathing ftatues , then unheeded things , Thro ' rows of warriors , and thro ' walks of kings ! What awe did the flow folemn knell inspire ; The pealing organ , and the paufing choir ; The duties by the lawn - rob'd prelate pay ...
... Thro ' breathing ftatues , then unheeded things , Thro ' rows of warriors , and thro ' walks of kings ! What awe did the flow folemn knell inspire ; The pealing organ , and the paufing choir ; The duties by the lawn - rob'd prelate pay ...
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... thro ' fields and blood , Farewel unfaithful promiser of good : Thou mufick , warbling to the deafen'd ear ! Thou incenfe wafted on the fun'ral bier ! Through life purfu'd in vain , by death obtain'd , When ask'd , deny'd us , and when ...
... thro ' fields and blood , Farewel unfaithful promiser of good : Thou mufick , warbling to the deafen'd ear ! Thou incenfe wafted on the fun'ral bier ! Through life purfu'd in vain , by death obtain'd , When ask'd , deny'd us , and when ...
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... Thro ' bush , thro ' brake , thro ' groves and gloomy dales , Thro ' dank and dry , o'er ftreams and flowery vales , Direct they fled ; but often look'd behind , And stop'd and started at each rufsling wind . Wing'd with like fear his ...
... Thro ' bush , thro ' brake , thro ' groves and gloomy dales , Thro ' dank and dry , o'er ftreams and flowery vales , Direct they fled ; but often look'd behind , And stop'd and started at each rufsling wind . Wing'd with like fear his ...
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... thro ' the thickest squadrons does he ride , With ANNA's angels by his fide , With what uncommon speed He fpurs his foaming , fiery steed , And pushes on thro ' midmost fires , Where France's fortune with her fons retires ! Now here ...
... thro ' the thickest squadrons does he ride , With ANNA's angels by his fide , With what uncommon speed He fpurs his foaming , fiery steed , And pushes on thro ' midmost fires , Where France's fortune with her fons retires ! Now here ...
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... Thro ' the wide yawn , th ' impetuous fea , Lavish of his new liberty , Beftrides the vale , and , with tumultuous noise , Bellows along the delug'd plain Pernicious to the rip'ning grain ; Far as th ' horizon he destroys : The weeping ...
... Thro ' the wide yawn , th ' impetuous fea , Lavish of his new liberty , Beftrides the vale , and , with tumultuous noise , Bellows along the delug'd plain Pernicious to the rip'ning grain ; Far as th ' horizon he destroys : The weeping ...
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Página 285 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 223 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 256 - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
Página 200 - 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 254 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair ; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are, To save from finger wet the letters fair ; The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high atchievements does declare-; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been, Kens the forthcoming rod ; — unpleasing sight, I ween.
Página 208 - 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 25 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
Página 195 - Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black, a courtier white; Explain their country's dear-bought rights away, And plead for pirates in the face of day; With slavish tenets taint our poison'd youth, And lend a lie the confidence of truth.
Página 251 - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere: For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did that title love.
Página 145 - Annuity securely made, A farm some twenty miles from town, Small, tight, salubrious, and my own: Two maids, that never saw the town, A...