The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by dr. Wolcot, Volumen 2John Wolcot 1804 |
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... hand , each sweet design Of Stephen Duck , and good Queen Caroline . Haste , bid yon live - long Terrace re - ascend , Replace each vista , straiten every bend ; Shut out the Thames - Shall that ignoble thing 65 Approach the presence of ...
... hand , each sweet design Of Stephen Duck , and good Queen Caroline . Haste , bid yon live - long Terrace re - ascend , Replace each vista , straiten every bend ; Shut out the Thames - Shall that ignoble thing 65 Approach the presence of ...
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... Ibid . Verse 134. And all the Maids of Honour , & c . ] " This is done to divert his Imperial Majesty , and the ladies of And thou , Sir William ! while thy plastic hand his train . " Ibid . SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS , KNT . 13.
... Ibid . Verse 134. And all the Maids of Honour , & c . ] " This is done to divert his Imperial Majesty , and the ladies of And thou , Sir William ! while thy plastic hand his train . " Ibid . SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS , KNT . 13.
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John Wolcot. And thou , Sir William ! while thy plastic hand Creates each wonder , which thy bard has plann'd ; While , as thy art commands , obsequious rise Whate'er can please , or frighten , or surprise , O ! let the bard his Knight's ...
John Wolcot. And thou , Sir William ! while thy plastic hand Creates each wonder , which thy bard has plann'd ; While , as thy art commands , obsequious rise Whate'er can please , or frighten , or surprise , O ! let the bard his Knight's ...
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... hand sustains With wealth in courts , nor all that haunt the plains ; Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ! ' Tis virtue makes the bliss , where'er we dwell . Thus Selim sung , by sacred truth inspir'd ; Nor praise , but such ...
... hand sustains With wealth in courts , nor all that haunt the plains ; Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ! ' Tis virtue makes the bliss , where'er we dwell . Thus Selim sung , by sacred truth inspir'd ; Nor praise , but such ...
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... hands bestow , And yours the love that kings delight to know . Yet think not these , all beauteous as they are , The best kind blessings Heaven can grant the fair ; Who trust alone in beauty's feeble ray , Boast but the worth Bassora's ...
... hands bestow , And yours the love that kings delight to know . Yet think not these , all beauteous as they are , The best kind blessings Heaven can grant the fair ; Who trust alone in beauty's feeble ray , Boast but the worth Bassora's ...
Términos y frases comunes
adorn'd awful bard beneath bids blessing blest boast breast breath Brentford brow charms cheek CLODIO convey'd cried crowd crown'd dare dome e'en e'er Emperor of China Ev'n ev'ry fair fame Fancy fane Fannius fate fix'd flow'rs foes Freedom Freedom calls gibbets glories grace groves guiltless hand hark head heart Heroic Epistle impious Isis Jemmy Twitcher Lacedemon lie Fit lov'd maid majestic mind Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er pale paleful rivers patriot peace PETER PINDAR PINDAR plain plann'd pleas'd poet poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rise round sacred sage scene Scylla or Charybdis shade shepherds shine shore sighs Sir William Chambers Slander slave smile smiling train soft solemn song sons soul sport spring Stephen Duck stream sublime swain sweet tear tender thee thine thou tow'r train trembling truth vale Verse virtue waves wild wings youth
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Página 50 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Página 48 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Página 32 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is...
Página 66 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Página 60 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Página 117 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.
Página 120 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The Child of Sorrow and of Misery...
Página 50 - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 61 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping Penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals...
Página 31 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i