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 13
... sounds From Warton's reed , or Mason's lyre - to paint The sudden gloom that damps my soul - But see ! Melpomene herself has snatch'd the pipe With which sad Lyttleton his Lucia mourn'd , And plaintive cries , My Shenstone is no more ...
... sounds From Warton's reed , or Mason's lyre - to paint The sudden gloom that damps my soul - But see ! Melpomene herself has snatch'd the pipe With which sad Lyttleton his Lucia mourn'd , And plaintive cries , My Shenstone is no more ...
Pagina 47
... sound of various cascades , by which the winding stream is agreeably broken . Opposite to this seat the ground rises again in an easy concave to a kind of dripping fountain , where a small rill trickles down a rude nich of rock - work ...
... sound of various cascades , by which the winding stream is agreeably broken . Opposite to this seat the ground rises again in an easy concave to a kind of dripping fountain , where a small rill trickles down a rude nich of rock - work ...
Pagina 63
... sound ? Perhaps ev'n Genius pours a slighted lay ; Perhaps ev'n Friendship sheds a fruitless tear ; Ev'n Lyttelton but vainly trims the bay , And fondly graces Hammond's mournful bier . Though weeping virgins haunt his favour'd urn ...
... sound ? Perhaps ev'n Genius pours a slighted lay ; Perhaps ev'n Friendship sheds a fruitless tear ; Ev'n Lyttelton but vainly trims the bay , And fondly graces Hammond's mournful bier . Though weeping virgins haunt his favour'd urn ...
Pagina 70
... sound ; The village cur ' twere transport then to hear ; In dreadful silence all was hush'd around , While the rude storm alone distress'd mine ear . As led by Orwell's winding banks I stray'd , Where towering Wolsey breath'd his native ...
... sound ; The village cur ' twere transport then to hear ; In dreadful silence all was hush'd around , While the rude storm alone distress'd mine ear . As led by Orwell's winding banks I stray'd , Where towering Wolsey breath'd his native ...
Pagina 75
... sounds deceive the day . Down yonder brook my crystal beverage flows ; My grateful sheep their annual fleeces bring ; Fair in my garden buds the damask rose , And from my grove I hear the throstle sing . My fellow swains ! avert your ...
... sounds deceive the day . Down yonder brook my crystal beverage flows ; My grateful sheep their annual fleeces bring ; Fair in my garden buds the damask rose , And from my grove I hear the throstle sing . My fellow swains ! avert your ...
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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.