The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fwell , and , thy proud fails to show , Take all the winds that Vanity can blow ; Wealth on a golden mountain blazing stand , And reach an India forth in either hand ; Spread all thy purple clufters , tempting vine , And thou , more ...
... fwell , and , thy proud fails to show , Take all the winds that Vanity can blow ; Wealth on a golden mountain blazing stand , And reach an India forth in either hand ; Spread all thy purple clufters , tempting vine , And thou , more ...
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... fwell'd , what time been spent , To fix a hero's birth - day , or descent ! What joy muft it now yield , what rapture raise , To fee the glorious race of antient days ; To greet thofe worthies , who perhaps have stood Illuftrious on ...
... fwell'd , what time been spent , To fix a hero's birth - day , or descent ! What joy muft it now yield , what rapture raise , To fee the glorious race of antient days ; To greet thofe worthies , who perhaps have stood Illuftrious on ...
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... fwell to be difcern'd in vain , Loft as a billow in th ' unbounded main . 195 This echoing voice now rends the yielding air , " For judgment , judgment , fons of men prepare ! " Earth shakes anew ; I hear her groans profound ; And hell ...
... fwell to be difcern'd in vain , Loft as a billow in th ' unbounded main . 195 This echoing voice now rends the yielding air , " For judgment , judgment , fons of men prepare ! " Earth shakes anew ; I hear her groans profound ; And hell ...
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... fwell ; Voices feraphic ; bleft with fuch a ftrain , Could Satan hear , he were a god again . 250 Triumphant King of GLORY ! Soul of Blifs ! What a ftupendous turn of fate is this ? O ! O ! whither art thou rais'd above the fcorn And 26 ...
... fwell ; Voices feraphic ; bleft with fuch a ftrain , Could Satan hear , he were a god again . 250 Triumphant King of GLORY ! Soul of Blifs ! What a ftupendous turn of fate is this ? O ! O ! whither art thou rais'd above the fcorn And 26 ...
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... praise fublime , 285 But bubbles on the rapid ftream of time , That rife , and fall , that fwell , and are no more , Born , and forgot , ten thousand in an hour ? SATIRE SATIRE III . то THE RIGHT HON . MR . 96 YOUNG'S POEMS . -
... praise fublime , 285 But bubbles on the rapid ftream of time , That rife , and fall , that fwell , and are no more , Born , and forgot , ten thousand in an hour ? SATIRE SATIRE III . то THE RIGHT HON . MR . 96 YOUNG'S POEMS . -
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Página 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Página 112 - But after seven years' dance, from place to place The 'Dane is more familiar with his grace. Who'd be a crutch to prop a rotten peer ; Or living pendant dangling at his ear, For ever whisp'ring secrets, which were blown For months before, by trumpets, thro...
Página 10 - Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend ; Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend ; The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar, And break the bondage of his wonted shore ; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread ; Darkness the circle of the sun invade ; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
Página 131 - LIBERIA'S eye As riot, impudence, and perfidy ; The youth of fire, that has drunk deep, and play'd...
Página 97 - Though prone to like, yet cautious to commend, You read with all the malice of a friend; Nor favour my attempts that way alone, But more to raise my verse, conceal your own. An ill-tim'd modesty!
Página 81 - Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing — but merit in a low estate.
Página 82 - The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. In Britain, what is many a lordly seat, But a discharge in full for an estate...
Página 96 - I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee. O THOU myself! abroad our counsels roam, And, like ill husbands, take no care at home : Thou too art wounded with the common dart, And Love of Fame lies throbbing at thy heart; And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?
Página 79 - Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went : One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear ; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their religion has been one.
Página 119 - But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word Drops from the lip of her unwary lord, Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent, Just intimates the lady's discontent.