Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing OfficeJ. Walter, 1785 - 225 pages |
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... filent tread , And ftab the hero in his bed ; Or fhoot the wing'd malignant lye , And female honours pine and die . So prowling wolves , when darkness reigns , Intent on murder fcour the plains ; Approach the folds where lambs repose ...
... filent tread , And ftab the hero in his bed ; Or fhoot the wing'd malignant lye , And female honours pine and die . So prowling wolves , when darkness reigns , Intent on murder fcour the plains ; Approach the folds where lambs repose ...
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... filent , fnug , commercial bands , With bufy looks , and dirty hands . Amidst these thoughtful crouds the old Plac'd all their HAPPINESS in gold . And furely , if there's blifs below , These hoary heads the fecret know . We journey'd ...
... filent , fnug , commercial bands , With bufy looks , and dirty hands . Amidst these thoughtful crouds the old Plac'd all their HAPPINESS in gold . And furely , if there's blifs below , These hoary heads the fecret know . We journey'd ...
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... filent maid With leaden eye , that loves the ground , Still on thy folemn steps attend ! Warm Charity , the gen'ral friend , With Juftice to herfelf fevere , And Pity , droping soft the fadly - pleafing tear . Oh ! gentle on ' thy ...
... filent maid With leaden eye , that loves the ground , Still on thy folemn steps attend ! Warm Charity , the gen'ral friend , With Juftice to herfelf fevere , And Pity , droping soft the fadly - pleafing tear . Oh ! gentle on ' thy ...
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... filent folemn hour , When night and morning meets In glided Margaret's grimly ghost , And ftood at William's feet . Her face was like an April - morn , Clad in a wintry cloud : And clay - cold was her lily hand , That held her fable ...
... filent folemn hour , When night and morning meets In glided Margaret's grimly ghost , And ftood at William's feet . Her face was like an April - morn , Clad in a wintry cloud : And clay - cold was her lily hand , That held her fable ...
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... filent gloom of night , Her ftarting fancy found In every bush his hovering fhade , His groan in every found . Alone , appall'd , thus had fhe pafs'd The vifionary vale , When lo ! the death - bell fmote her ear , Sad founding in the ...
... filent gloom of night , Her ftarting fancy found In every bush his hovering fhade , His groan in every found . Alone , appall'd , thus had fhe pafs'd The vifionary vale , When lo ! the death - bell fmote her ear , Sad founding in the ...
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Page 142 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 142 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 142 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.