The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... She flies all public care , all venal ftrife , To try the ftill , compar'd with active life ; To prove , by thefe the fons of men may owe The fruits of blifs to burfting clouds of woe ; That ev'n calamity , by thought ' refin`d ...
... She flies all public care , all venal ftrife , To try the ftill , compar'd with active life ; To prove , by thefe the fons of men may owe The fruits of blifs to burfting clouds of woe ; That ev'n calamity , by thought ' refin`d ...
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... She has . Approach'd , appears a deep descent , Which opens in a rock a large extent ! And hark ! -its hollow entrance reach'd , I hear A trampling found of footsteps hattening near ! A death - like chilinefs thwarts my panting breast ...
... She has . Approach'd , appears a deep descent , Which opens in a rock a large extent ! And hark ! -its hollow entrance reach'd , I hear A trampling found of footsteps hattening near ! A death - like chilinefs thwarts my panting breast ...
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... she strays ; Sees , round new countless funs , new systems roll ! Sees God in all ! and magnifies the whole ! Yon rocky fide enrich'd the fummer fcene , And peasants fearch for herbs of healthful green ; Now naked , pale , and ...
... she strays ; Sees , round new countless funs , new systems roll ! Sees God in all ! and magnifies the whole ! Yon rocky fide enrich'd the fummer fcene , And peasants fearch for herbs of healthful green ; Now naked , pale , and ...
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... She has . Approach'd , appears a deep defcent , Which opens in a rock a large extent ! And hark ! -its hollow entrance reach'd , I hear A trampling found of footsteps haftening near ! A death - like chilinefs thwarts my panting breaft ...
... She has . Approach'd , appears a deep defcent , Which opens in a rock a large extent ! And hark ! -its hollow entrance reach'd , I hear A trampling found of footsteps haftening near ! A death - like chilinefs thwarts my panting breaft ...
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... she was dear ! How dear , what words can say ? She dies ! -my heaven at once is snatch'd away ! Ah ! what avails , that , by a father's care , 130 I rofe a wealthy and illuftrious heir ? That early in my youth I learn'd to prove Th ...
... she was dear ! How dear , what words can say ? She dies ! -my heaven at once is snatch'd away ! Ah ! what avails , that , by a father's care , 130 I rofe a wealthy and illuftrious heir ? That early in my youth I learn'd to prove Th ...
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Página 68 - Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late; Young and unthoughtful then, who knows one day What ripening virtues might have made their way!
Página 68 - He might have fav'd fome worth, now doom'd to fall ; And I, perchance, in him, have murder'd all. O fate of late Repentance ! always vain : Thy remedies but lull undying pain. Where...
Página 82 - Two Fathers join'd to rob my Claim of one ! My Mother too thought fit to have no Son ! The Senate next...
Página 29 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Página 66 - tis to you My thanks for such distinguish'd claims are due ; You, unenslav'd to Nature's narrow laws, Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause, From all the dry devoirs of blood and line, . From ties maternal, moral and divine, Discharg'd my grasping soul ; push'd me from shore, And launch'd me into life without an oar.
Página 70 - Her fmile more cheerful than a vernal morn, All life ! all bloom ! of Youth and Fancy born. Touch'd into joy, what hearts to her fubmit ! She looks her Sire, and fpeaks her Mother's wit. O'er the gay world the fweet infpirer reigns . Spleen flies, and Elegance her pomp fuftains.
Página 39 - Whence, beam'd from sapphires, living azure plays; The liquid floor, in-wrought with pearls divine, Where all his labours in...
Página 172 - Boast petty courts, whence rules new rigour draw, Unknown to Nature's and to statute-law ; Quirks that explain all saving rights away, To give th' attorney and the catchpoll prey.
Página 6 - Induftry is all with Beauty crown'd ! He, He alone, explores the Mine for Gain, Hues the hard Rock, or harrows up the Plain ; He forms the Sword to...
Página 56 - He deem'd it godlike to have power to blefs : Thus, when unguarded, treafon ftain'd him o'er; And virtue and content were then no more. But when to death by rigorous...