The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... shine Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler ...
... shine Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler ...
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... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moonbeam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moonbeam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
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... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
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... shine abroad And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to those whose negligence or sloth Exposed their inexperience to the snare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then the quiver broken and decay'd , In ...
... shine abroad And give the world their talents and themselves , Small thanks to those whose negligence or sloth Exposed their inexperience to the snare , And left them to an undirected choice . See then the quiver broken and decay'd , In ...
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... shine , the thirst to be amused , That at the sound of winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our counties of such herds Of fluttering , loitering , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
... shine , the thirst to be amused , That at the sound of winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our counties of such herds Of fluttering , loitering , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath betimes bird boast breath call'd cause charms Chiswick death delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fast fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast heard heart Heaven honour labour learn'd less life's live lost lyre Mighty winds mind Muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure poets praise prize proud prove rapture rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil truth Twas virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worm worth youth
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Page 83 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Page 197 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords.
Page 56 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 208 - WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows, Where'er the healing water flows...
Page 127 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Page 229 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Page 150 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 81 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen all tranquillity and smiles.
Page 127 - So manifold in cares, whose every day Brings its own evil with it, makes it less : For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large.
Page 229 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.