The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by dr. Wolcot, Volumen 2John Wolcot 1804 |
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... song With scenes of Yven - Ming , and sayings of Li- Tsong ; 10 the auspicious patronage he now so justly enjoys , added to the READY Vote of those who furnish ways and means , the royal work will speedily be completed . Verse 2 ...
... song With scenes of Yven - Ming , and sayings of Li- Tsong ; 10 the auspicious patronage he now so justly enjoys , added to the READY Vote of those who furnish ways and means , the royal work will speedily be completed . Verse 2 ...
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... song : While bold Mac - Ossian , wont in Ghosts to deal , Bids candid Smollet from his coffin steal ; Bids Mallock quit his sweet Elysian rest , Sunk in his St. John's philosophic breast , And , like old Orpheus , make some strong ...
... song : While bold Mac - Ossian , wont in Ghosts to deal , Bids candid Smollet from his coffin steal ; Bids Mallock quit his sweet Elysian rest , Sunk in his St. John's philosophic breast , And , like old Orpheus , make some strong ...
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... song could cure his Asiatic spleen , And make him wish to see and to be seen ; That solemn vein of irony so fine , Which , e'en Reviewers own , adorns thy line , 35 Verse 34. A King of Prose . ] Kien - Long , the present Emperor of ...
... song could cure his Asiatic spleen , And make him wish to see and to be seen ; That solemn vein of irony so fine , Which , e'en Reviewers own , adorns thy line , 35 Verse 34. A King of Prose . ] Kien - Long , the present Emperor of ...
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... song ! Come then , and guide my careless pen along ; 50 Yet keep it in the bounds of sense and verse , Nor , like Mac - Homer , make me gabble Erse . Verse 37. That solemn vein of irony . ] " A fine vein of solemn irony runs through ...
... song ! Come then , and guide my careless pen along ; 50 Yet keep it in the bounds of sense and verse , Nor , like Mac - Homer , make me gabble Erse . Verse 37. That solemn vein of irony . ] " A fine vein of solemn irony runs through ...
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... song , undisciplin'd by art , Find a sure patron in each English heart . If this its fate , let all the frippery things Be - plac'd , be - pension'd , and be - starr'd by Kings , Frown on the page , and , with fastidious eye , Like old ...
... song , undisciplin'd by art , Find a sure patron in each English heart . If this its fate , let all the frippery things Be - plac'd , be - pension'd , and be - starr'd by Kings , Frown on the page , and , with fastidious eye , Like old ...
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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