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... live In luxury and ease , in pomp and pride , Think these lost themes unworthy of your ear : Such themes as these the rural Maro sung To wide - imperial Rome , in the full height Of elegance and taste , by Greece refined . In ancient ...
... live In luxury and ease , in pomp and pride , Think these lost themes unworthy of your ear : Such themes as these the rural Maro sung To wide - imperial Rome , in the full height Of elegance and taste , by Greece refined . In ancient ...
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... live ether , and imbibe the dew . By Thee disposed into congenial soils , Stands each attractive plant , and sucks , and swells The juicy tide ; a twining mass of tubes . At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap , detruded to ...
... live ether , and imbibe the dew . By Thee disposed into congenial soils , Stands each attractive plant , and sucks , and swells The juicy tide ; a twining mass of tubes . At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap , detruded to ...
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... live - long day , When by kind duty fixed . Among the roots Of hazel , pendent o'er the plaintive stream , They frame the first foundation of their domes ; Dry sprigs of trees , in artful fabric laid , And bound with clay together . Now ...
... live - long day , When by kind duty fixed . Among the roots Of hazel , pendent o'er the plaintive stream , They frame the first foundation of their domes ; Dry sprigs of trees , in artful fabric laid , And bound with clay together . Now ...
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... live carnation round ; Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes . In brighter flow ; her wishing bosom heaves With palpitations wild ; kind tumults seize Her veins , and all her ...
... live carnation round ; Her lips blush deeper sweets ; she breathes of youth ; The shining moisture swells into her eyes . In brighter flow ; her wishing bosom heaves With palpitations wild ; kind tumults seize Her veins , and all her ...
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... live , Disdaining fear . What is the world to them , Its pomp , its pleasure , and its nonsense all ! Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms , and lavish hearts can wish ; Something than beauty dearer , should they look ...
... live , Disdaining fear . What is the world to them , Its pomp , its pleasure , and its nonsense all ! Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms , and lavish hearts can wish ; Something than beauty dearer , should they look ...
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Page 86 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 319 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 105 - Beyond the pomp of dress : for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.
Page 42 - With quickened step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn. Blue, through the dust, the smoking currents shine ; And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps, awkward ; while along the forest glade The wild deer trip, and often turning gaze At early passenger. Music awakes, The native voice of undissembled joy; And thick around the woodland hymns arise.
Page 319 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground; And there a season atween June and May, Half...
Page 3 - To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th...
Page 365 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, " When drooping health and spirits go amiss? " How tasteless then whatever can be given! " Health is the vital principle of bliss,
Page 155 - What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils. These check his fearful steps; and down he sinks, Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death; Mixed with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th...
Page 9 - Amid the glad creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields) And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude of leaves. But who can hold the shade, while Heaven descends In universal bounty, shedding herbs, And fruits, and flowers,...
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