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 4
... .... Describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind on the melancholy Event of a licentious Amour ... 113 116 ........... 118 LEVITIES : OR , PIECES OF HUMOUR .............. 122 ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE . " WRITTEN ON A FERME ORNEE CONTENTS .
... .... Describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind on the melancholy Event of a licentious Amour ... 113 116 ........... 118 LEVITIES : OR , PIECES OF HUMOUR .............. 122 ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE . " WRITTEN ON A FERME ORNEE CONTENTS .
Pagina 10
... minds contemplative at close of day Retiring , muse o'er Nature's various works , Her wonders venerate , or her sweets enjoy ? — What room for doubt ? some rural deity , Presiding , scatters o'er the ' unequal lawns , In beauteous ...
... minds contemplative at close of day Retiring , muse o'er Nature's various works , Her wonders venerate , or her sweets enjoy ? — What room for doubt ? some rural deity , Presiding , scatters o'er the ' unequal lawns , In beauteous ...
Pagina 14
... mind , A bliss more pure and unconfin'd Your step attends - Draw freely nigh , And meet the bard's benignant eye : On him no pedant forms await , No proud reserve shuts up his gate ; No spleen , no party views , control That warm ...
... mind , A bliss more pure and unconfin'd Your step attends - Draw freely nigh , And meet the bard's benignant eye : On him no pedant forms await , No proud reserve shuts up his gate ; No spleen , no party views , control That warm ...
Pagina 16
... mind secures the rest . But if thy soul such bliss despise , Avert thy dull incurious eyes ; Go , fix them there where gems and gold , Improv'd by art , their pow'r unfold ; Go , try in courtly scenes to trace A fairer form of Nature's ...
... mind secures the rest . But if thy soul such bliss despise , Avert thy dull incurious eyes ; Go , fix them there where gems and gold , Improv'd by art , their pow'r unfold ; Go , try in courtly scenes to trace A fairer form of Nature's ...
Pagina 19
... mind , To go where kindred spirits range , Nor leave a wish behind . And though to share his pleasures here Kings might their state forego , Yet must he feel such raptures there As none can taste below . VERSES LEFT ON A SEAT . O EARTH ...
... mind , To go where kindred spirits range , Nor leave a wish behind . And though to share his pleasures here Kings might their state forego , Yet must he feel such raptures there As none can taste below . VERSES LEFT ON A SEAT . O EARTH ...
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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
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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.