A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands: With NotesJ. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... LORD PRIVY - SEA L. b Sacerdos Fronde fuper MITRAM , et fælici comptus olivá . Contending kings , and fields of death , too long Have been the subject of the British fong . Who hath not read of fam'd Ramilia's plain , Bavaria's fall ...
... LORD PRIVY - SEA L. b Sacerdos Fronde fuper MITRAM , et fælici comptus olivá . Contending kings , and fields of death , too long Have been the subject of the British fong . Who hath not read of fam'd Ramilia's plain , Bavaria's fall ...
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... Lord Sunderland , Mr. Tickell accompanied him , and was employed in public business . In 1717 , he became Under Secretary of State , and about 1725 , was appointed Secretary to the Lords Juftices of Ireland , a place of great honour ...
... Lord Sunderland , Mr. Tickell accompanied him , and was employed in public business . In 1717 , he became Under Secretary of State , and about 1725 , was appointed Secretary to the Lords Juftices of Ireland , a place of great honour ...
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... lord , and weeps o'er every wound ; Hangs on the lips , that fields of blood relate , And fmiles or trembles , at his various fate . Near the full bowl he draws the fancied line , And marks feign'd trenches in the flowing wine , Then ...
... lord , and weeps o'er every wound ; Hangs on the lips , that fields of blood relate , And fmiles or trembles , at his various fate . Near the full bowl he draws the fancied line , And marks feign'd trenches in the flowing wine , Then ...
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... lord of an unpeopled land . Her guiltless glory just Britannia draws From pure religion , and impartial laws : To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal scales the rival kings : Her gen'rous fons in choiceft ...
... lord of an unpeopled land . Her guiltless glory just Britannia draws From pure religion , and impartial laws : To Europe's wounds a mother's aid fhe brings , And holds in equal scales the rival kings : Her gen'rous fons in choiceft ...
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... The noblest boast of thy romantic groves . • George Granville , Efq ; afterwards Lord Landfdowne . ? Henry II . } Chaucer is faid to have written feveral of his poems at Woodflock . Oft , Oft , if the Mufe prefage , fhall he be [ 15 ]
... The noblest boast of thy romantic groves . • George Granville , Efq ; afterwards Lord Landfdowne . ? Henry II . } Chaucer is faid to have written feveral of his poems at Woodflock . Oft , Oft , if the Mufe prefage , fhall he be [ 15 ]
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Seite 286 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Seite 243 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Seite 225 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies...
Seite 225 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Seite 213 - The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 338 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Seite 337 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY.
Seite 251 - 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...
Seite 211 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding truth impress'd, And unresisted passion storm'd the breast.
Seite 225 - In all the hues of heaven's bow, And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.