The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen23Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still they remember that deftructive rage Which lately made ... winds could hardly drive them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in ...
... wind , Nor dare again the British strength engage ; Still they remember that deftructive rage Which lately made ... winds could hardly drive them to their fate , And all the ocean labour'd with the weight . Where - e'er the waves in ...
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... wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive The fwarms , when loaden homeward , from their hive . Nor fheep , nor goats , must pasture near their stores , To trample under foot the springing flowers ; Nor frisking heifers ...
... wind ; For winds divert them in their flight , and drive The fwarms , when loaden homeward , from their hive . Nor fheep , nor goats , must pasture near their stores , To trample under foot the springing flowers ; Nor frisking heifers ...
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... wind , Should dip , or scatter those that lag behind , Here they may fettle on the friendly stone , And dry their reeking pinions at the fun . Plant all the flowery banks with lavender , With store of favory fcent the fragrant air , Let ...
... wind , Should dip , or scatter those that lag behind , Here they may fettle on the friendly stone , And dry their reeking pinions at the fun . Plant all the flowery banks with lavender , With store of favory fcent the fragrant air , Let ...
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... wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all blackening from afar ; While fhady coverts and fresh steams they chuse , Milfoil and common honey - fuckles bruife , And sprinkle on their hives the fragrant juice ...
... wind , through distant tracts of air , And view the winged cloud all blackening from afar ; While fhady coverts and fresh steams they chuse , Milfoil and common honey - fuckles bruife , And sprinkle on their hives the fragrant juice ...
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... winds and storms are nigh , Nor trust their bodies to a faithless sky , But make small journeys , with a careful wing , And fly to water at a neighbouring spring ;. And , left their airy bodies should he cast In restless whirls , the ...
... winds and storms are nigh , Nor trust their bodies to a faithless sky , But make small journeys , with a careful wing , And fly to water at a neighbouring spring ;. And , left their airy bodies should he cast In restless whirls , the ...
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Página 211 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 215 - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
Página 295 - Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, — And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 295 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Página 41 - Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, And hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, And answer her afflicted neighbours pray'r.
Página 211 - To all my weak complaints and cries, Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd To form themselves in pray'r. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whom those comforts flow'd. When, in the slipp'ry paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran, Thine arm, unseen, convey'd me safe, And led me up to man.
Página 149 - And each by turns his aking heart assails. As he thus ponders, he behind him spies His opening hounds, and now he hears their cries: A generous pack, or to maintain the chase, Or snuff the vapour from the scented grass.
Página 271 - Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame Hangs quivering on a point, leaps off by fits, And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. — Thou must not go, my soul still hovers o'er thee, And can't get loose.
Página 277 - Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power deliver'd down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood) O let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children.
Página 211 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.