Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. By Thomas Tomkinseditor, and J. Wallis, 1780 - 204 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... heart is fortified against all the various affaults of hu- man calamities , and by which we are taught to confider happiness as entirely depending on the reflections of our own minds . We fhall be fufficiently convinced of these truths ...
... heart is fortified against all the various affaults of hu- man calamities , and by which we are taught to confider happiness as entirely depending on the reflections of our own minds . We fhall be fufficiently convinced of these truths ...
Pagina 6
... hearth ; The crackling faggot flies . But nothing could a charm impart To footh the stranger's woe ; For grief was heavy at his heart , And tears began to flow . His rifing cares the hermit fpy'd , With answering care 6 SELECT POEMS .
... hearth ; The crackling faggot flies . But nothing could a charm impart To footh the stranger's woe ; For grief was heavy at his heart , And tears began to flow . His rifing cares the hermit fpy'd , With answering care 6 SELECT POEMS .
Pagina 9
... heart , " I triumph'd in his pain . " Till quite dejected with my scorn , " He left me to my pride ; " And fought a folitude forlorn , " In fecret , where he died . " But mine the forrow , mine the fault , SELECT POEMS .
... heart , " I triumph'd in his pain . " Till quite dejected with my scorn , " He left me to my pride ; " And fought a folitude forlorn , " In fecret , where he died . " But mine the forrow , mine the fault , SELECT POEMS .
Pagina 10
... heart , " And ev'ry care resign : " And fhall we never , never part , " My life , --- my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart , " Shall break ...
... heart , " And ev'ry care resign : " And fhall we never , never part , " My life , --- my all that's mine . " No , never from this hour to part , " We'll live and love fo true ; " The figh that rends thy constant heart , " Shall break ...
Pagina 11
... heart its prey , Wears fenfibility away . Then comes , fweet Nymph , instead of thee , The gloomy fiend Stupidity . III . O may that fiend be banish'd far , Though paffions hold eternal war ! Nor ever let me cease to know The pulfe that ...
... heart its prey , Wears fenfibility away . Then comes , fweet Nymph , instead of thee , The gloomy fiend Stupidity . III . O may that fiend be banish'd far , Though paffions hold eternal war ! Nor ever let me cease to know The pulfe that ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 150 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 81 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Pagina 186 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Pagina 178 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pagina 183 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Pagina 193 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Pagina 99 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Pagina 82 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Pagina 149 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Pagina 185 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.