A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, Volume 1Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1765 |
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Pagina 15
... sweet Venus , ( fo the fable fings ) Awak'd by Nereids , from the Ocean springs ; With smiles fhe fees the threat'ning billows rise , Spreads fmooth the furge , and clears the louring skies ; Light , o'er the deep , with flutt'ring ...
... sweet Venus , ( fo the fable fings ) Awak'd by Nereids , from the Ocean springs ; With smiles fhe fees the threat'ning billows rise , Spreads fmooth the furge , and clears the louring skies ; Light , o'er the deep , with flutt'ring ...
Pagina 19
... sweet retirements fee them fafe convey'd , And raise their battles in the rural shade . From fields of death to Woodstock's peaceful glooms ( The poet's haunt ) Britannia's hero comes Begin , my Muse , and foftly touch the ftring : Here ...
... sweet retirements fee them fafe convey'd , And raise their battles in the rural shade . From fields of death to Woodstock's peaceful glooms ( The poet's haunt ) Britannia's hero comes Begin , my Muse , and foftly touch the ftring : Here ...
Pagina 20
... Sweet folitude ! when life's gay hours are past , Howe'er we range , in thee we fix at last ; Tofs'd through tempeftuous feas ( the voyage o'er ) Pale we look back , and bless the friendly shore . Our own strict judges , our past life ...
... Sweet folitude ! when life's gay hours are past , Howe'er we range , in thee we fix at last ; Tofs'd through tempeftuous feas ( the voyage o'er ) Pale we look back , and bless the friendly shore . Our own strict judges , our past life ...
Pagina 33
... sweet were once thy profpects fresh and fair , Thy floping walks , and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath thy aged trees , Thy noon - tide fhadow , and the evening breeze ! His image thy forfaken bowers restore ; Thy walks ...
... sweet were once thy profpects fresh and fair , Thy floping walks , and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath thy aged trees , Thy noon - tide fhadow , and the evening breeze ! His image thy forfaken bowers restore ; Thy walks ...
Pagina 59
... sweet as dew - drops on these flowery lawns , ' When the sky opens and the evening dawns ! Streight as the pink , that tow'rs fo high in air , ' Soft as the blue - bell ! as the daisy , fair ! Bleft be the hour , when firft I was convey ...
... sweet as dew - drops on these flowery lawns , ' When the sky opens and the evening dawns ! Streight as the pink , that tow'rs fo high in air , ' Soft as the blue - bell ! as the daisy , fair ! Bleft be the hour , when firft I was convey ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
æther becauſe beneath bleffings bleft boaſt breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms dreadful eaſe endleſs Engliſh Ev'n eyes facred fafe fair falſe fame fate fatire fecret feem fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhine fhun fide filent fing firſt flain fmiles foes foft fome fons foon foul ftill fuch fwell Gaul grace Grongar Hill happineſs heart heav'n houſe joys juſt kings laſt lefs leſs loft mind moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er nymph o'er paffion pain paſs paſt pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride proud purſue quæ quid rage raiſe reaſon rife riſe ſcarce ſcene ſchemes ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhining ſhould ſkies ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak Spleen ſpread ſpring ſtage ſtands ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtream ſtrength ſtrive ſweet taſte thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tow'rs uſe virtue whofe Whoſe wiſh youth
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Pagina 217 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Pagina 284 - And pungent radish, biting infant's tongue ; And plantain ribb'd, that heals the reaper's '.• wound; And marj'ram sweet, in shepherd's posie found; And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom Shall be, erewhile, in arid bundles bound, To lurk amidst the labours of her loom, And crown her kerchiefs clean, with mickle rare , perfume.
Pagina 370 - How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, 'with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! W.
Pagina 231 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Pagina 372 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Pagina 233 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Pagina 281 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display; And at the door imprisoning board is seen, Lest weakly wights of smaller size should stray; Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day!
Pagina 250 - That cast an awful Look below ; Whose ragged Walls the Ivy creeps, And with her Arms from falling keeps; So both a.
Pagina 249 - The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Pagina 291 - Tho now he crawl along the ground so low, Nor weeting how the Muse should soar on high, Wisheth, poor starv'ling elf! his paper-kite may fly. And this perhaps, who, cens'ring the design, Low lays the house which that of cards doth build, Shall DENNIS be! if rigid fates incline, And many an Epic to his rage shall yield; And many a poet quit th...