The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fuch mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark fo mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Infatiate archer ! could not one fuffice ? 210 215 Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was flain ; And thrice ...
... fuch mighty plunder , why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark fo mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Infatiate archer ! could not one fuffice ? 210 215 Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was flain ; And thrice ...
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... fuch it proves ! ) Strays ( wretched rover ! ) o'er the pleasing past ; In queft of wretchedness pervefely ftrays ; And finds all defart now ; and meets the ghofts Of my departed joys ; a numerous train ! I rue the riches of my former ...
... fuch it proves ! ) Strays ( wretched rover ! ) o'er the pleasing past ; In queft of wretchedness pervefely ftrays ; And finds all defart now ; and meets the ghofts Of my departed joys ; a numerous train ! I rue the riches of my former ...
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... fuch alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue fave ; Disease invades the chastest temperance ; And punishment the guiltless ; and alarm , Through thickeft fhades , purfues the fond of peace . Man's caution often into danger turns ...
... fuch alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue fave ; Disease invades the chastest temperance ; And punishment the guiltless ; and alarm , Through thickeft fhades , purfues the fond of peace . Man's caution often into danger turns ...
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... fuch by heaven defign'd ; 160 He that has none , muft make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments , and without employ The foul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To fouls moft adverse ; action all their joy . Here Here then , the ...
... fuch by heaven defign'd ; 160 He that has none , muft make them , or be wretched . Cares are employments , and without employ The foul is on a rack ; the rack of rest , To fouls moft adverse ; action all their joy . Here Here then , the ...
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... your patient through the tedious length Of a fhort winter's day - fay , fages ! fay , Wit's oracles ! fay , dreamers of gay dreams ! 250 How How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 27.
... your patient through the tedious length Of a fhort winter's day - fay , fages ! fay , Wit's oracles ! fay , dreamers of gay dreams ! 250 How How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 27.
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Página 40 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Página 5 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Página 32 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 146 - Its tenure sure ; its income is divine. High-built abundance, heap on heap ! for what ? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more ; Then, make a richer scramble for the throng...
Página 249 - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Página 62 - Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Página 5 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound.
Página 4 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve...
Página 52 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth...
Página 80 - Though yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold ? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.