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Pagina 18
... head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread ; Blushed , that effects like these she should produce , Worse than the deeds of galley - slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce licentiousness should ...
... head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread ; Blushed , that effects like these she should produce , Worse than the deeds of galley - slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce licentiousness should ...
Pagina 36
... head in luxury's soft lap , And took , too often , there his easy nap . If brighter beams than all he threw not forth , ' Twas negligence in him , not want of worth . Surly and slovenly , and bold and coarse , Too proud for art , and ...
... head in luxury's soft lap , And took , too often , there his easy nap . If brighter beams than all he threw not forth , ' Twas negligence in him , not want of worth . Surly and slovenly , and bold and coarse , Too proud for art , and ...
Pagina 68
... repaid In praise applied to the same part - his head . For ' tis a rule , that holds for ever true , Grant me discernment , and I grant it you . Patient of contradiction as a child , Affable , humble 68 THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
... repaid In praise applied to the same part - his head . For ' tis a rule , that holds for ever true , Grant me discernment , and I grant it you . Patient of contradiction as a child , Affable , humble 68 THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
Pagina 80
... head The sacred fire , self - torturing his trade ; His voluntary pains , severe and long , Would give a barbarous air to British song ; No grand inquisitor could worse invent , Than he contrives to suffer , well content . Which is the ...
... head The sacred fire , self - torturing his trade ; His voluntary pains , severe and long , Would give a barbarous air to British song ; No grand inquisitor could worse invent , Than he contrives to suffer , well content . Which is the ...
Pagina 81
... we to fear , Reformed and well instructed ? You shall hear . Yon ancient prude , whose withered features show She might be young some forty years ago , VOL . I. G Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips , Her head TRUTH . 81.
... we to fear , Reformed and well instructed ? You shall hear . Yon ancient prude , whose withered features show She might be young some forty years ago , VOL . I. G Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips , Her head TRUTH . 81.
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beams beneath bids blessings blest boast breast breath charms courser dark dear deeds deist delight divine docet dream earth Edmonton eyes fair fancy fear feel fire folly fools frown Gilpin give glory God's grace hallowed ground hand happy hast hear heart heaven heavenly honour hope hour JOHN GILPIN joys land learned LENOX LIBRARY light lust lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature never night nymph once pain peace Pharisee pine-apples pity plain pleasure poet poet's poor praise pride prize proud prove Raimbach Rome rude sacred scene scorn scripture shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon sorrow soul sound stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee their's theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE VIRG virtue waste wild wisdom woes YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY zeal
Populaire passages
Pagina 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Pagina 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Pagina 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Pagina 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Pagina 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Pagina 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Pagina 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Pagina 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Pagina 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.