A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Band 2Robert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... rent clime he tries , And is himself that torment which he flies . 1 For how should ills , that from our paffions flow , Be chang'd by Afric's heat , or Ruffia's fnow ? Or . D Or how can aught but pow'rful Reason cure [ 44 ]
... rent clime he tries , And is himself that torment which he flies . 1 For how should ills , that from our paffions flow , Be chang'd by Afric's heat , or Ruffia's fnow ? Or . D Or how can aught but pow'rful Reason cure [ 44 ]
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Robert Dodsley . D Or how can aught but pow'rful Reason cure , What from unthinking Folly we endure ? Happy is He , and He alone , who knows His heart's uneafy difcord to compofe ; In gen'rous love of others ' good to find The sweetest ...
Robert Dodsley . D Or how can aught but pow'rful Reason cure , What from unthinking Folly we endure ? Happy is He , and He alone , who knows His heart's uneafy difcord to compofe ; In gen'rous love of others ' good to find The sweetest ...
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... Reason heedlefs Beauty flrays , And the most trufted Guide the most betrays : Hence by fond dreams of fancy'd pow'r amus'd , When most you tyrannize you're most abus'd . What is your fex's earlieft , latest care , Your heart's fupreme ...
... Reason heedlefs Beauty flrays , And the most trufted Guide the most betrays : Hence by fond dreams of fancy'd pow'r amus'd , When most you tyrannize you're most abus'd . What is your fex's earlieft , latest care , Your heart's fupreme ...
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... Reason these fears may disapprove But yet I fear , because I love . DELIA . : First , tell me , Damon , why to - day At Belvidera's feet you lay ? Why with fuch warmth her charms you prais'd , And ev'ry trifling beauty rais'd , As if ...
... Reason these fears may disapprove But yet I fear , because I love . DELIA . : First , tell me , Damon , why to - day At Belvidera's feet you lay ? Why with fuch warmth her charms you prais'd , And ev'ry trifling beauty rais'd , As if ...
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... W ... 2 Though well I might your truth distrust , My foolish heart believes you juft ; Reason this faith may disapprove , But I believe , because I love . ODE , D 4 SGIBIBIGIGababababak GJESTIGES ODE , in Imitation of PASTOR FIDO . [ 55 ]
... W ... 2 Though well I might your truth distrust , My foolish heart believes you juft ; Reason this faith may disapprove , But I believe , because I love . ODE , D 4 SGIBIBIGIGababababak GJESTIGES ODE , in Imitation of PASTOR FIDO . [ 55 ]
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Seite 272 - finew ftrains, Thofe in the deeper vitals rage ; Lo, poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain ; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why mould they know their fate ! Since forrow never comes too late, And
Seite 275 - their gayly-gilded trim Quick-glancing to the fun d . IV, To Contemplation's fober eye ' Such is the race of man : And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the bufy and the gay But flutter through life's little day, In fortune's varying colours
Seite 274 - reclin'd in ruftic ftate) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great b ! III. Still is the toiling hand of care: The panting herds repofe : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The bufy murmur glows! ^ The
Seite 270 - Still as they run, they look behind* They hear a voice in every wind* And fnatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Lefs pleafing when poflefs'd ; The tear forgot as foon as fhed. The
Seite 272 - Lo, in the vale of years beneath, A grifly troop are feen, The painful family of death, More hideous than their queen ; This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every
Seite 273 - flowers, And wake the purple year ! The ATTIC warbler pours her throat Refponfive to the cuckow's note, The untaught harmony of fpring : While whifp'ring pleafure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue fky Their
Seite 78 - term affign'd to her here, In the uniform praftice of Religion and Virtue. MADE to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; Tho* meek, magnanimous ; tho' witty, wife ; Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as fhe the world had never feen
Seite 79 - The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentle female tendernefs combin'd. Her Speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her Song the warbling of the vernal Grove ; Her Eloquence was fweeter than her Song, Soft as her Heart, and as her Reafon ftrong ;' Her Form each beauty of her mind exprefs'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces drefs'd. ON
Seite 69 - guide ? Ah ! where is now the hand whofe tender care To every Virtue would have form'd your Youth, And ftrew'd with flow'rs the thorny ways of Truth ? O lofs beyond repair! O wretched Father left alone To weep their dire misfortune, and thy own! How fhall thy
Seite 68 - But thofe, the gentleft and the beft, Whofe holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart enliven and improve. The conjugal, and the maternal love. VI. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns. Were wont to trip along thefe verdant lawns By