The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for John Sharpe, 1808 |
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Pagina 7
... hand , attempts her artless line , In numbers such as untaught Nature brings , As flow , spontaneous , like thy native springs . But , ah ! what airy forms around me rise ! The russet mountain glows with richer dyes ; In circling dance ...
... hand , attempts her artless line , In numbers such as untaught Nature brings , As flow , spontaneous , like thy native springs . But , ah ! what airy forms around me rise ! The russet mountain glows with richer dyes ; In circling dance ...
Pagina 9
... hand in hand , And purple Pleasures strew'd the way With sweetest flow'rs ; and every ray Of each fond Muse with rapture fir'd , To glowing thoughts his breast inspir'd ; The hills rejoic'd , the vallies rung , All Nature smil'd while ...
... hand in hand , And purple Pleasures strew'd the way With sweetest flow'rs ; and every ray Of each fond Muse with rapture fir'd , To glowing thoughts his breast inspir'd ; The hills rejoic'd , the vallies rung , All Nature smil'd while ...
Pagina 10
... hand Leads , through the broider'd vale , these lucid rills , That , murmuring as they flow , bear melody Along their banks , and through the vocal shades Improve the music of the woodland choir ? What pensive dryad rais'd yon solemn ...
... hand Leads , through the broider'd vale , these lucid rills , That , murmuring as they flow , bear melody Along their banks , and through the vocal shades Improve the music of the woodland choir ? What pensive dryad rais'd yon solemn ...
Pagina 15
... hand in hand - attentive gaze- And mark the dance's mystic maze . ' Such is the waving line , ' they cry , ' For ever dear to Fancy's eye ! Yon stream that wanders down the dale , The spiral wood , the winding vale , The path which ...
... hand in hand - attentive gaze- And mark the dance's mystic maze . ' Such is the waving line , ' they cry , ' For ever dear to Fancy's eye ! Yon stream that wanders down the dale , The spiral wood , the winding vale , The path which ...
Pagina 22
... hand that wove Their simple sweets to wreaths of artless love . Simplicity with Shenstone died ! - FROM PRATT'S TEARS OF GENIUS . FULL gentle and sweet was the note That flow'd from his delicate heart ; Simplicity smil'd as he wrote ...
... hand that wove Their simple sweets to wreaths of artless love . Simplicity with Shenstone died ! - FROM PRATT'S TEARS OF GENIUS . FULL gentle and sweet was the note That flow'd from his delicate heart ; Simplicity smil'd as he wrote ...
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bard beauty Beauty mourns beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast breathe charms Clent hill crown'd dame Damon dear Delia delight drooping e'er Elegy envy ev'n fair faithless fame Fancy fate favour'd flame flow flow'rs fond form'd gentle glow gold grace ground grove haunts hear Heav'n hill lawn Leasowes Leather Lane lov'd lyre Lyttelton maid mind mournful Muse naiad native ne'er numbers nymph o'er pain paint path peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure polish'd pomp pow'r praise pride rill ROBERT DODSLEY rose rove rural scene scorn seat shade SHENSTONE shepherd shine shore shrubs shun sigh silvan sing skies smile soft song soul stream swain sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toils train trees tuneful Twas vale valley verdant virtue ween wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wood youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 159 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair: The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high achievements does declare; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been Kens the forth-coming rod, unpleasing sight, I ween!
Pagina 44 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah ! lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn — • I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
Pagina 158 - Here oft the dame, on Sabbath's decent eve, Hymned such psalms as Sternhold forth did mete, If winter 'twere, she to her hearth did cleave, But in her garden found a...
Pagina 154 - AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest Worth neglected lies While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprise: Lend me thy clarion, goddess!
Pagina 143 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Pagina 155 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Pagina 120 - If through the garden's flowery tribes I stray, Where bloom the jasmines that could once allure, "Hope not to find delight in us," they say, "For we are spotless, Jessy; we are pure.
Pagina 57 - Their colours and their sash he wore, And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure, Which gives the brave the keenest wound.
Pagina 45 - 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.
Pagina 157 - One ancient hen she took delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favour did her past deportment claim: And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.