Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Pagina v
... Divine Judgments ib . Sovereignty and Grace ib . Earth and Heaven .......... 22 The Law and Gospel ib . Felicity above God's Dominion and Decrees Self - Consecration ..... The Creator and Creatures ................ ........... ib ...
... Divine Judgments ib . Sovereignty and Grace ib . Earth and Heaven .......... 22 The Law and Gospel ib . Felicity above God's Dominion and Decrees Self - Consecration ..... The Creator and Creatures ................ ........... ib ...
Pagina vi
... Divine Poems , never printed ... 73 51 Stanzas to Lady Sunderland , at Tunbridge Wells ib . ib . BOOK 11I . 53 SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD . ib . An Epitaph on King William 774 ib . 54 On the sudden Death of Mrs. Mary Peacock . An ...
... Divine Poems , never printed ... 73 51 Stanzas to Lady Sunderland , at Tunbridge Wells ib . ib . BOOK 11I . 53 SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD . ib . An Epitaph on King William 774 ib . 54 On the sudden Death of Mrs. Mary Peacock . An ...
Pagina 10
... DIVINE POEMS . SAY , human seraph , whence that charming force , That flame , that soul , which animates each line ; And how it runs with such a graceful ease , Loaded with ponderous sense ! Say , did not he , The lovely Jesus , who ...
... DIVINE POEMS . SAY , human seraph , whence that charming force , That flame , that soul , which animates each line ; And how it runs with such a graceful ease , Loaded with ponderous sense ! Say , did not he , The lovely Jesus , who ...
Pagina 13
... divine , should be enslaved to vice and profaneness ; that an art , inspired from Heaven , should have so far lost the memory of its birth - place , as to be engaged in the interests of Hell . How unhappily is it perverted from its most ...
... divine , should be enslaved to vice and profaneness ; that an art , inspired from Heaven , should have so far lost the memory of its birth - place , as to be engaged in the interests of Hell . How unhappily is it perverted from its most ...
Pagina 14
... divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to imagine , that poetry and vice are naturally akin ; or at least , that verse is fit only to recommend trifles , and en- tertain our looser hours , but is too light and trivial a method ...
... divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to imagine , that poetry and vice are naturally akin ; or at least , that verse is fit only to recommend trifles , and en- tertain our looser hours , but is too light and trivial a method ...
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ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
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Pagina 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Pagina 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Pagina 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Pagina 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Pagina 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Pagina 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Pagina 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Pagina 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Pagina 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Pagina 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...