Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volumen1Vicesimus Knox Rivington, 1791 |
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... hope should flow ; Wisdom , thine empire I disclaim , Thou empty boaft of pompous name ! In gloomy thade of cloifters dwell , But never haunt my cheerful cell . Hail to pleafure's frolic train ! Hail to fancy's golden reign ! Feftive ...
... hope should flow ; Wisdom , thine empire I disclaim , Thou empty boaft of pompous name ! In gloomy thade of cloifters dwell , But never haunt my cheerful cell . Hail to pleafure's frolic train ! Hail to fancy's golden reign ! Feftive ...
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... hope , whene'er I die , I fhall to heav'n afcend ? Then will I read and pray , While I have life and breath ; Left I fhould be cut off to - day , And fent to eternal death . § 68. The Advantages of early Religion . WATTS . HAPPY the ...
... hope , whene'er I die , I fhall to heav'n afcend ? Then will I read and pray , While I have life and breath ; Left I fhould be cut off to - day , And fent to eternal death . § 68. The Advantages of early Religion . WATTS . HAPPY the ...
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... hope , with pity ; Since I love to help the weak , Though they're neither fair nor witty . I'll not willingly offend , Nor be eafily offended ! What's amifs I'll strive to mend , And endure what can't be mended . May I be fo watchful ...
... hope , with pity ; Since I love to help the weak , Though they're neither fair nor witty . I'll not willingly offend , Nor be eafily offended ! What's amifs I'll strive to mend , And endure what can't be mended . May I be fo watchful ...
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... Hope erects her tow'ring crest , And laughs and riots in the breast ? Think not my weaker brain turns round ; Think not I tread on fairy ground ; Think not your pulfe alone beats true- Mine makes as healthful mufic too . Our joys , when ...
... Hope erects her tow'ring crest , And laughs and riots in the breast ? Think not my weaker brain turns round ; Think not I tread on fairy ground ; Think not your pulfe alone beats true- Mine makes as healthful mufic too . Our joys , when ...
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... Hope acts the kind phyfician's part , And warms the folitary heart : Religion nobler comfort brings , Difarms our griefs , or blunts their stings ; Points out the balance on the whole , And Heaven rewards the ftruggling foul . But while ...
... Hope acts the kind phyfician's part , And warms the folitary heart : Religion nobler comfort brings , Difarms our griefs , or blunts their stings ; Points out the balance on the whole , And Heaven rewards the ftruggling foul . But while ...
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Página 22 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 22 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 188 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 443 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Página 215 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Página 210 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 14 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 19 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe.
Página 205 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Página 33 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.