The Book of Gems: Pomfret to BloomfieldSamuel Carter Hall Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... . Love on a Cross and a Throne 21 Colin and Lucy TICKELL . 51 52 False Greatness 22 Few Happy Matches 23 Earth and Heaven 24 RAMSAY . True Riches 25 PAGE PAGE 86 83 89 93 97 99 102 105 Looking Upward 55 27 From the Gentle Shepherd.
... . Love on a Cross and a Throne 21 Colin and Lucy TICKELL . 51 52 False Greatness 22 Few Happy Matches 23 Earth and Heaven 24 RAMSAY . True Riches 25 PAGE PAGE 86 83 89 93 97 99 102 105 Looking Upward 55 27 From the Gentle Shepherd.
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... Heaven the grateful liberty would give , That I might choose my method how to live ; And all those hours propitious Fate should lend , In blissful ease and satisfaction spend ; Near some fair town I'd have a private seat , Built uniform ...
... Heaven the grateful liberty would give , That I might choose my method how to live ; And all those hours propitious Fate should lend , In blissful ease and satisfaction spend ; Near some fair town I'd have a private seat , Built uniform ...
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... Heaven . A frugal plenty should my table spread ; With healthy , not luxurious , dishes spread ; Enough to satisfy , and something more , To feed the stranger , and the neighbouring poor . Strong meat indulges vice , and pampering food ...
... Heaven . A frugal plenty should my table spread ; With healthy , not luxurious , dishes spread ; Enough to satisfy , and something more , To feed the stranger , and the neighbouring poor . Strong meat indulges vice , and pampering food ...
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... Heaven a date of many years would give , Thus I'd in pleasure , ease , and plenty live . And as I near approach'd the verge of life , Should take upon him all my worldly care , Whilst Some kind relation ( for I'd have no wife ) 6 ...
... Heaven a date of many years would give , Thus I'd in pleasure , ease , and plenty live . And as I near approach'd the verge of life , Should take upon him all my worldly care , Whilst Some kind relation ( for I'd have no wife ) 6 ...
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... Heaven's high bowers A sprig of amaranthine flowers , In nectar thrice infuses bays , Three times refin'd in Titan's rays ; Then calls the Graces to her aid , And sprinkles thrice the new - born maid : From whence the tender skin ...
... Heaven's high bowers A sprig of amaranthine flowers , In nectar thrice infuses bays , Three times refin'd in Titan's rays ; Then calls the Graces to her aid , And sprinkles thrice the new - born maid : From whence the tender skin ...
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Page 76 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied GOD ! The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.
Page 77 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 14 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 213 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 168 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 212 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe to greet The purpling east.
Page 120 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 100 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 33 - tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 126 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love.