Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807 "These volumes are intended to accompany Mr. Ellis's ... Specimens of the early English poets. That series concludes with reign of Charles II, this begins with that of James his successor."-- Preface. |
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Pagina 6
... hour , When weaken'd Virtue bends to Nature's power , And would the goodness of the soul efface , To substitute dishonour in her place . With such you lose the day in false delights , In lewd debauch you revel out the nights , ( O fatal ...
... hour , When weaken'd Virtue bends to Nature's power , And would the goodness of the soul efface , To substitute dishonour in her place . With such you lose the day in false delights , In lewd debauch you revel out the nights , ( O fatal ...
Pagina 29
... Sir John must own ' tis true , He's doing what he least would wish to do . Not Tattle less delights to hold his tongue , Yet sits four hours to hear an Opera sung ; Nor less uneasiness does Embrio feel In whalebone stays — JAMES MILLER .
... Sir John must own ' tis true , He's doing what he least would wish to do . Not Tattle less delights to hold his tongue , Yet sits four hours to hear an Opera sung ; Nor less uneasiness does Embrio feel In whalebone stays — JAMES MILLER .
Pagina 35
... hours employ , Sorrow , be thou henceforth my joy ! By tombs where sullen spirits stalk , Familiar with the dead I walk ; While to my sighs and groans by turns , From graves the midnight echo mourns . Open thy marble jaws , O tomb ...
... hours employ , Sorrow , be thou henceforth my joy ! By tombs where sullen spirits stalk , Familiar with the dead I walk ; While to my sighs and groans by turns , From graves the midnight echo mourns . Open thy marble jaws , O tomb ...
Pagina 44
... hour . The jack and chimney , near ally'd , Had never left each other's side : The chimney to a steeple grown , The jack would not be left alone ; But , up against the steeple rear'd , Became a clock , and still adhered ; And still its ...
... hour . The jack and chimney , near ally'd , Had never left each other's side : The chimney to a steeple grown , The jack would not be left alone ; But , up against the steeple rear'd , Became a clock , and still adhered ; And still its ...
Pagina 53
... hour ( By sure prognosticks ) when to dread a shower . While rain depends , the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolicks , and pursues her tail no more . Returning home at night , you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double ...
... hour ( By sure prognosticks ) when to dread a shower . While rain depends , the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolicks , and pursues her tail no more . Returning home at night , you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double ...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 2 Robert Southey Volledige weergave - 1807 |
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AARON HILL AMBROSE PHILIPS Anacreon ANTISTROPHE bard beauty behold beneath blest bliss blood bloom Braes of Yarrow breast breath bright charms clouds courser crown'd DAVID MALLET dear death delight divine dread Dunciad earth fair fame fantastick fate fear flame flow fond fool genius glory glowing grace Grongar Hill hand happy heart heaven honour hope labours Lord Harvey lyre maid mind mourns Muse Musidora ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace plain pleasing pleasure Poems poets praise pride Quintilian rapture reign rise round sacred scene shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul STEPHEN DUCK streams swain sweet swell taste tears Telephus thee thine THOMAS WARTON thou thought thro throne toils trembling truth Twas vale verse virtue Whilst wind wing wonder wretch youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 55 - While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, ran them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprison'd hero quaked for fear.
Pagina 429 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth And bade to form her infant mind.
Pagina 54 - Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
Pagina 103 - How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run, Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain!
Pagina 429 - And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flattering Foe ; By vain Prosperity received To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
Pagina 53 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Pagina 431 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
Pagina 429 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Pagina 52 - Till drown'd in shriller notes of chimney-sweep : Duns at his lordship's gate began to meet ; And brickdust Moll had scream'd through half the street. The turnkey now his flock returning sees, Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees: The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands, And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.
Pagina 432 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.