Elegies on several occasions. Odes, songs, ballads, &c. Levities; or, Pieces of humour. Moral piecesJ. Hughs, 1765 |
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... reason there are fo many is , that I wanted to write ONE good fong , and could never please myself . " It was this diffidence which occafioned him to throw afide many of his pieces before he had bestowed upon them his laft touches . I ...
... reason there are fo many is , that I wanted to write ONE good fong , and could never please myself . " It was this diffidence which occafioned him to throw afide many of his pieces before he had bestowed upon them his laft touches . I ...
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... reason disagree ? How can my paffion live beneath despair ! How can my bofom sigh for aught but thee ? Ah dear MELISSA ! pleas'd with thee to rove , My foul has yet furviv'd its dreariest time ; Ill can I bear the various clime of love ...
... reason disagree ? How can my paffion live beneath despair ! How can my bofom sigh for aught but thee ? Ah dear MELISSA ! pleas'd with thee to rove , My foul has yet furviv'd its dreariest time ; Ill can I bear the various clime of love ...
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... , And bid your frantic joys adieu . The fole confufion I admire , Is that my DAPHNE's eyes infpire : I fcorn the madness you approve , And value reason next to love . L 3 SONG J SONG XVIII . Imitated from the FRENCH , Y ES ( 165 )
... , And bid your frantic joys adieu . The fole confufion I admire , Is that my DAPHNE's eyes infpire : I fcorn the madness you approve , And value reason next to love . L 3 SONG J SONG XVIII . Imitated from the FRENCH , Y ES ( 165 )
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... reason , Than many a fcull among ye ? DAN PRIOR'S mice , I own it , Were vermin of condition ; But this rat who merely learn'd What rats alone concern'd , Was the greater politician . That England's topsy - turvy , Is clear from these ...
... reason , Than many a fcull among ye ? DAN PRIOR'S mice , I own it , Were vermin of condition ; But this rat who merely learn'd What rats alone concern'd , Was the greater politician . That England's topsy - turvy , Is clear from these ...
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... reason , Than many a fcull among ye ? DAN PRIOR'S mice , I own it , Were vermin of condition ; But this rat who merely learn'd What rats alone concern'd , Was the greater politician . That England's topsy - turvy , Is clear from thefe ...
... reason , Than many a fcull among ye ? DAN PRIOR'S mice , I own it , Were vermin of condition ; But this rat who merely learn'd What rats alone concern'd , Was the greater politician . That England's topsy - turvy , Is clear from thefe ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
bard beauty mourns beneath BENJAMIN WILKS bleft blifs bloom bofom bow'r breaft charms chearful cou'd crown'd cry'd dame DAMON dear defire DELIA diſplay e'er eaſe ELEGY erft Ev'n ev'ry facred faid fair fame fate fav'rite fcenes fcorn feen fhade fhall fhepherd fhew fhou'd fhun figh fing flame flow'rs fmile focial foft fome fong fons foon foul fpring ftill ftrains ftream fuch fure fwain fweet fwell gen'rous gentle grace grove lefs lov'd lyre maid mind mournful mufe muft native ne'er nymphs o'er paffion peace penfive plain pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pofie pow'r praiſe pride purſue raiſe reafon refign'd reign rife rofe ſcene ſeen ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſmile ſweets tear thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thro tow'rs Twas vale virtue ween whofe whoſe wight wou'd ye bands youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 242 - 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 242 - Twas her own country bred the flock so fair; 'Twas her own labour did the fleece prepare...
Seite 241 - And at the door imprisoning board is seen, Lest weakly wights of smaller size should stray; Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day! The noises intermix'd, which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement betray; Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around.
Seite 142 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Seite 85 - Yet fhall fuch bofoms claim a part In all that glads the human heart; Yet thefe the fpirits, form'd to judge and prove All nature's charms immenfe, and heaven's unbounded love.
Seite 102 - She faw him wheel, and frifk, and bound ; From rock to rock purfue his way, And, on the fearful margin, play. / Pleas'd on his various freaks to dwell, She faw him climb my ruftic cell ; Thence eye my lawns with verdure bright, And feem all ravifh'd at the fight.
Seite 145 - 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 87 - Had giv'n the robe with grace to flow, Had taught exotic gems to glow ; And emulous of nature's pow'r, Mimick'd the plume, the leaf, the flow'r...
Seite 141 - 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 147 - I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair — and my passion begun ; She smil'd — and I could not but love ; She is faithless — and I am undone.