A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands: With NotesJ. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... hope for pardon , not aspire to praise , Cherish'd by you , in time may grow to fame , And mine furvive with BRISTOL's glorious name . Fir'd with the views this glitt'ring fcene difplays , And fmit with paffion for my country's praife ...
... hope for pardon , not aspire to praise , Cherish'd by you , in time may grow to fame , And mine furvive with BRISTOL's glorious name . Fir'd with the views this glitt'ring fcene difplays , And fmit with paffion for my country's praife ...
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... hope to fly the world , in vain From Europe fever'd by the circling main : Sought by the kings of every diftant land , And every hero worthy of thy hand ? Haft thou forgot that mighty Bourbon m fear'd He still was mortal , till thy ...
... hope to fly the world , in vain From Europe fever'd by the circling main : Sought by the kings of every diftant land , And every hero worthy of thy hand ? Haft thou forgot that mighty Bourbon m fear'd He still was mortal , till thy ...
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... hope appears Through the long prospect of fucceeding years ; The fon , afpiring to his father's fame , Shows all his fire : another and the fame , He bleft in lovely Carolina's arms , To future ages propagates her charms : With pain and ...
... hope appears Through the long prospect of fucceeding years ; The fon , afpiring to his father's fame , Shows all his fire : another and the fame , He bleft in lovely Carolina's arms , To future ages propagates her charms : With pain and ...
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... twice fugitive Bavarian tell ; Who , from his airy hope of better state , By luft of sway irregularly great , Like an apoftate angel fell : Who , by imperial favour rais'd , I ' th 3 Who [ 79 ] Can painters' oil, or ftatuaries' art, ...
... twice fugitive Bavarian tell ; Who , from his airy hope of better state , By luft of sway irregularly great , Like an apoftate angel fell : Who , by imperial favour rais'd , I ' th 3 Who [ 79 ] Can painters' oil, or ftatuaries' art, ...
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... hope , though I am ne'er deny'd ; " Nor think a woman won , that's willing to be try'd . } XX XXXXXXXXX An EPISTLE to Lord BATHURST , By the Same . OW happy you ! who varied joys pursue ; HOW And every hour prefents you fomething new ...
... hope , though I am ne'er deny'd ; " Nor think a woman won , that's willing to be try'd . } XX XXXXXXXXX An EPISTLE to Lord BATHURST , By the Same . OW happy you ! who varied joys pursue ; HOW And every hour prefents you fomething new ...
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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.