The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: I. Elegies on several occasions. II. Odes, songs, ballads, &c. III. Levities, or pieces of humour. IV. Moral piecesR. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall., 1764 - 345 Seiten |
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... fame time the strongest prefumption in its favour , Perhaps it may be no great difficulty to compromife the difpute . There is no one kind of metre that is diftinguished by rhimes , but is liable to fome objection or other . Heroic ...
... fame time the strongest prefumption in its favour , Perhaps it may be no great difficulty to compromife the difpute . There is no one kind of metre that is diftinguished by rhimes , but is liable to fome objection or other . Heroic ...
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... fame time never de- viating from a fixed principle , that poetry without morality is but the bloffom of a fruit - tree . Poetry is indeed like that fpecies of plants , which may bear at once both fruits and bloffoms , and the tree is by ...
... fame time never de- viating from a fixed principle , that poetry without morality is but the bloffom of a fruit - tree . Poetry is indeed like that fpecies of plants , which may bear at once both fruits and bloffoms , and the tree is by ...
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... faithless friends , depart ! Fly my plain board , abhor my hostile name ! Hence the faint verse that flows not from the heart , But mourns in labour'd strains , the price of fame ! O lov'd fimplicity ! be thine the prize ! Affiduous.
... faithless friends , depart ! Fly my plain board , abhor my hostile name ! Hence the faint verse that flows not from the heart , But mourns in labour'd strains , the price of fame ! O lov'd fimplicity ! be thine the prize ! Affiduous.
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... fame ? Or hearing , fancy sweetness in the found ? Perhaps ev'n genius pours a flighted lay ; Perhaps ev'n friendship sheds a fruitless tear ; Ev'n LYTTELTON but vainly trims the bay , And fondly graces HAMMOND's mournful bier . Tho ...
... fame ? Or hearing , fancy sweetness in the found ? Perhaps ev'n genius pours a flighted lay ; Perhaps ev'n friendship sheds a fruitless tear ; Ev'n LYTTELTON but vainly trims the bay , And fondly graces HAMMOND's mournful bier . Tho ...
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... fame's bright fabric raise , To life's precarious date confine their care ? O teach them you , to spread the facred base , To plan a work , thro ' latest ages fair ! Is it small transport , as with curious eye You trace the story of ...
... fame's bright fabric raise , To life's precarious date confine their care ? O teach them you , to spread the facred base , To plan a work , thro ' latest ages fair ! Is it small transport , as with curious eye You trace the story of ...
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bard beauty beneath bleft bloom boaſt bofom bow'r breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms chearful cou'd crown'd DAMON dear defire DELIA diſplay diſtant eaſe ELEGY ev'n ev'ry facred faid fair fame fate fav'rite fcorn fecure feem fhade fhall fhepherd fhew fhore fhou'd fhun figh fing firſt flame flow'rs fmiles focial foft fome fond fong fons foon foul friendſhip fuch fure furvey fwain fweet fwell gen'rous gentle grace grove guife lefs lov'd lyre maid mind moffy mournful mufe muſe muſt native ne'er nymph o'er paffion peace penfive plain pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe raiſe reign rife rofe roſe rural ſcene ſcorn ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſmile ſpring ſtep ſtore ſtrain ſtream ſweet taſte tear tender thee theſe thine thoſe thou thro toils tow'ring Twas virtue whofe whoſe wiſh wou'd youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 330 - And all in sight doth rise a birchen tree, Which Learning near her little dome did...
Seite 188 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Seite 188 - I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove, That it ever attended the bold ; And she call'd it the sister of love. But her words such a pleasure convey, So much I her accents adore, Let her speak, and whatever she say, Methinks, I should love her the more.
Seite 332 - Goody, good-woman, gossip, n'aunt, forsooth, Or dame, the sole additions she did hear; Yet these she challenged, these she held right dear ; Ne would esteem him act as mought behove 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.
Seite 190 - She is every way pleasing to me. 0 you that have been of her train, Come and join in my amorous lays ! 1 could lay down my life for the swain, That will sing but a song in her praise.
Seite 186 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Seite 335 - To thwart the proud, and the fubmifs to raife ; Some with vile copper prize exalt on high, And fome entice with pittance fmall of praife ; And other fome with baleful...
Seite 193 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Seite 187 - To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away, Is happy, nor heard to repine. Thus, widely remov'd from the fair, Where my vows, my devotion I owe ; Soft hope is the relique I bear, And my solace wherever I go.
Seite 336 - 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. 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...