The Emerald, Volumes 1-2Belcher & Armstrong, 1806 |
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... sigh of regret , thtem - and animals , natural to each coun - that has exhibited the humoure try , which he had an opportunity of king , the pathos of a Barry . and seeing , and also of the soil , both in electrick universality of a ...
... sigh of regret , thtem - and animals , natural to each coun - that has exhibited the humoure try , which he had an opportunity of king , the pathos of a Barry . and seeing , and also of the soil , both in electrick universality of a ...
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... Sighs , and buds , and droops for thee . See ! the lilack longs to pour , O'er the green earth , her purple shower ; And ... sigh For April's earth , April's sky I pant to mark thy varied day , To bless thy smiles , to hail thy sway ; To ...
... Sighs , and buds , and droops for thee . See ! the lilack longs to pour , O'er the green earth , her purple shower ; And ... sigh For April's earth , April's sky I pant to mark thy varied day , To bless thy smiles , to hail thy sway ; To ...
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... sigh ! No ' tis not that bright complexion , Rival to the new blown rose , Nor thy gently heaving bosom , Whiter than descending snows ; For which my heart thus fondly glows ! ' Tis not all thy witching graces , That around thee , ever ...
... sigh ! No ' tis not that bright complexion , Rival to the new blown rose , Nor thy gently heaving bosom , Whiter than descending snows ; For which my heart thus fondly glows ! ' Tis not all thy witching graces , That around thee , ever ...
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... sigh , But ah ! without relief . Her sigh soft whisper'd to the gale The sorrows of her mind ; The whisp'ring breeze blew on the tale , But left her pangs behind . She saw the flow'rs of richest hue , That grac'd the thorny bush ; She ...
... sigh , But ah ! without relief . Her sigh soft whisper'd to the gale The sorrows of her mind ; The whisp'ring breeze blew on the tale , But left her pangs behind . She saw the flow'rs of richest hue , That grac'd the thorny bush ; She ...
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... sighs for earthly things . 1 . For the Emerald . HYMN TO HEALTH . POLLIO . ( E every youthful charm array'd , From blissful skies descend , Sweet blooming Hygeia , lovely maid , My ardent prayer attend . I ask not all the tawdry shew Of ...
... sighs for earthly things . 1 . For the Emerald . HYMN TO HEALTH . POLLIO . ( E every youthful charm array'd , From blissful skies descend , Sweet blooming Hygeia , lovely maid , My ardent prayer attend . I ask not all the tawdry shew Of ...
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Page 276 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 276 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 276 - I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip.
Page 177 - Christian religion, which might be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his resurrection by all the other apostles, he thought the conversion of St Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity to be a divine revelation.
Page 30 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 224 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Page 237 - ... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Page 235 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 200 - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
Page 210 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?