Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807 - English poetry "These volumes are intended to accompany Mr. Ellis's ... Specimens of the early English poets. That series concludes with reign of Charles II, this begins with that of James his successor."-- Preface. |
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... , Ev'n she whose prudence shuns the tinsel charm They know to slander , though they fail to warm a They make her languish in fictitious flame , Affix some в 3 LORD IIARVEY . 5 As all my wrongs distressful I repeat, ...
... , Ev'n she whose prudence shuns the tinsel charm They know to slander , though they fail to warm a They make her languish in fictitious flame , Affix some в 3 LORD IIARVEY . 5 As all my wrongs distressful I repeat, ...
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... charms the shining prospect glows , And truth reversed the faithless mirror shows , Inverted scenes in bright confusion lie , The lawns impending o'er the nether sky ; No just , no real images we meet , But all the gaudy vision is ...
... charms the shining prospect glows , And truth reversed the faithless mirror shows , Inverted scenes in bright confusion lie , The lawns impending o'er the nether sky ; No just , no real images we meet , But all the gaudy vision is ...
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... charms , Might I but breathe my last in those dear arms , On that loved face but fix my closing eye , Permitted where I might not live to die . My softened fate I would accuse no more ; But fate has no such happiness in store . " Tis ...
... charms , Might I but breathe my last in those dear arms , On that loved face but fix my closing eye , Permitted where I might not live to die . My softened fate I would accuse no more ; But fate has no such happiness in store . " Tis ...
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... charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flattery pleased the fair and great ; Still with esteem no less conversed than read ; With wit well natured , and with books well - bred : His heart , his mistress , and his friend did share ...
... charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flattery pleased the fair and great ; Still with esteem no less conversed than read ; With wit well natured , and with books well - bred : His heart , his mistress , and his friend did share ...
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... charms , Those , age or sickness , soon or late disarms : Good humour only teaches charms to last , Still makes new conquests , and maintains the past Love , raised on beauty , will like that decay 12 ALEXANDER pope .
... charms , Those , age or sickness , soon or late disarms : Good humour only teaches charms to last , Still makes new conquests , and maintains the past Love , raised on beauty , will like that decay 12 ALEXANDER pope .
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AARON HILL AMBROSE PHILIPS Anacreon ANTISTROPHE bard beauty behold beneath blest bliss blood bloom Braes of Yarrow breast breath bright charms clouds courser crown'd DAVID MALLET dear death delight divine dread Dunciad earth fair fame fantastick fate fear flame flow fond fool genius glory glowing grace Grongar Hill hand happy heart heaven honour hope labours Lord Harvey lyre maid mind mourns Muse Musidora ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace plain pleasing pleasure Poems poets praise pride Quintilian rapture reign rise round sacred scene shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul STEPHEN DUCK streams swain sweet swell taste tears Telephus thee thine THOMAS WARTON thou thought thro throne toils trembling truth Twas vale verse virtue Whilst wind wing wonder wretch youth
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Page 55 - While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, ran them through,) Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprison'd hero quaked for fear.
Page 429 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth And bade to form her infant mind.
Page 54 - Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
Page 103 - How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run, Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain!
Page 429 - And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. Scared at thy frown terrific, fly Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood, Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, And leave us leisure to be good. Light they disperse, and with them go The summer Friend, the flattering Foe ; By vain Prosperity received To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
Page 53 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Page 431 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
Page 429 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Page 52 - Till drown'd in shriller notes of chimney-sweep : Duns at his lordship's gate began to meet ; And brickdust Moll had scream'd through half the street. The turnkey now his flock returning sees, Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees: The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands, And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.
Page 432 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.