Poems on Several Occasions: Written in the Eighteenth CenturyKathleen Winifred Campbell B. Blackwell, 1926 - 212 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
ADORATION Augustan poetry bard Beauty behold beneath bless blooming breast breathe charm chearful croud dear Death deep delight divine e'er Earth Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair Fame Fate fear flow'r Gales Glorious grace green Grongar Hill Groves Hand hear Heart Heav'n Heel I three Hill Hymns ISAAC WATTS JOHN BYROM JOHN GAY JONATHAN SWIFT King live Lord lov'd love ys dedde Lubberkin Maid mark the Ground MATTHEW PRIOR mighty Muse ne'er never Night Numbers Nymph o'er passion peace pleas'd Pleasure Poems Poets Pope pow'r praise pride rise round Shade sharp Heel Shepherd sigh sing Sleep smiles soft Song Soul Spleen Spring Stanza stray Swain sweet swelling thee THOMAS HEARN Thomas Warton thou three times mark thro Tom D'Urfey turn me thrice twas Vale Verse Warwickshire ween WILLIAM SHENSTONE Wing wyllowe tree
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Página 46 - We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is Thy command, Vast as eternity Thy love ; Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.
Página 107 - 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 hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 47 - A thousand Ages in thy Sight Are like an Evening gone ; Short as the Watch that ends the Night Before the rising Sun.
Página 193 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
Página 21 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 74 - Or if you rather choose the rural shade, And find a fane in every sacred grove ; There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons as they roll.
Página 52 - The boatswain gave the dreadful word, The sails their swelling bosom spread, No longer must she stay aboard ; They kiss'd, she sigh'd, he hung his head. Her lessening boat unwilling rows to land ; 'Adieu!
Página 115 - A pleasing land of drowsy-hed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye, And of gay castles in the clouds that pass For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 187 - GUIDE me, O thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land : I am weak, but thou art mighty ; Hold me with thy powerful hand : Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more.
Página 123 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Referencias a este libro
English Literature of the Eighteenth Century: With a Preface on the ... Reginald Charles Churchill Vista de fragmentos - 1953 |