The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith, and Gray: With Memoirs of the AuthorsT. Nelson and Sons, 1872 - 445 páginas |
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amidst Argyleshire arms beauty beneath bless blest bliss blood bloom bosom bowers brave breast breath bright brother brow Campbell charms child clime cried Culdee dear death deep dread e'en Edinburgh fair fame fate father fear fire GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Glasgow Goldsmith grace grave grief hand hath heart Heaven honour Hope hour Indian Innisfail Julius Cæsar land life's light living Lochiel lonely look Lord Loxian lyre Margaret of Anjou mind morn mourn murmuring Muse native Nature's never night numbers o'er ODIN OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain pale peace Pindar pleasure poem Poet Poet's pride rapture round sacred scene scorn shade shore sigh smile song sorrow soul spirit Stoops to Conquer storm sweet sword tears tempest thee Theodric thine thou thought tomb trembling triumph Twas vale wave weep wild wretch youth
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Página 296 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 150 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 391 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 383 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 148 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 286 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Página 399 - Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
Página 299 - Return'd and wept, and still return'd to weep ! The good old sire, the first, prepared to go To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe : But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave.
Página 290 - She, wretched matron, forced in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn, — She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 331 - Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man.