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 8
... linen more than common whiteness boast : Let order , peace , and housewifery , be mine ; Shenstone ! be fancy , fame , and fortune , thine ! COTSWOULDIA . ON THE DISCOVERY OF AN ECHO AT EDGBASTON . HA ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE .
... linen more than common whiteness boast : Let order , peace , and housewifery , be mine ; Shenstone ! be fancy , fame , and fortune , thine ! COTSWOULDIA . ON THE DISCOVERY OF AN ECHO AT EDGBASTON . HA ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE .
Pagina 16
... peace and freedom - these possest , His temperate 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 ...
... peace and freedom - these possest , His temperate 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 ...
Pagina 36
... peaceful glennes are free . ' Below this alcove is a large sloping lawn , finely bounded , crossed by the serpentine water before mentioned , and interspersed with single or clumps of oaks at agreeable distances . Further on the scene ...
... peaceful glennes are free . ' Below this alcove is a large sloping lawn , finely bounded , crossed by the serpentine water before mentioned , and interspersed with single or clumps of oaks at agreeable distances . Further on the scene ...
Pagina 41
... Here vales invite where sports the cooling breeze , And peaceful sleep beneath embow'ring trees , While lowing herds surround . VOL . I. E Still winding up into the wood , we come to A DESCRIPTION OF THE LEASOWES . 41.
... Here vales invite where sports the cooling breeze , And peaceful sleep beneath embow'ring trees , While lowing herds surround . VOL . I. E Still winding up into the wood , we come to A DESCRIPTION OF THE LEASOWES . 41.
Pagina 48
... peaceful shade , Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower ,, That shun her paths , and slight her power . Hither the peaceful halcyon flies From social meads and open skies , Pleas'd by this rill her course to steer ...
... peaceful shade , Nor let Ambition e'er invade The tenants of this leafy bower ,, That shun her paths , and slight her power . Hither the peaceful halcyon flies From social meads and open skies , Pleas'd by this rill her course to steer ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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.