Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784Thomas Campbell John Murray, 1819 |
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... Verses copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging - house , in the Neighbourhood of London ( from the Annual Register for 1774 ) EDWARD LOVIBOND The Tears of Old May - Day Song to *** FRANCIS FAWKES The Brown Jug ANONYMOUS -The Old ...
... Verses copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging - house , in the Neighbourhood of London ( from the Annual Register for 1774 ) EDWARD LOVIBOND The Tears of Old May - Day Song to *** FRANCIS FAWKES The Brown Jug ANONYMOUS -The Old ...
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... verses amidst the shades of retirement , or the shelves of his library , how much more interest must we take in the “ ship - boy on the high and giddy mast , " cherishing refined visions of fancy at the hour which he may casually ...
... verses amidst the shades of retirement , or the shelves of his library , how much more interest must we take in the “ ship - boy on the high and giddy mast , " cherishing refined visions of fancy at the hour which he may casually ...
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... With unrelenting ire his steps oppos'd , And every gate of hope against him clos'd . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train , To call Arion this ill - fated swain ! For , like that bard unhappy , on his head WILLIAM FALCONER . 103.
... With unrelenting ire his steps oppos'd , And every gate of hope against him clos'd . Permit my verse , ye blest Pierian train , To call Arion this ill - fated swain ! For , like that bard unhappy , on his head WILLIAM FALCONER . 103.
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... verse has a sweep of harmony that seems to accord with an emphatic mind . He encountered in his principal poem the more than ordinary difficulties of a didactic subject . " To paint the finest features of the mind , And to most subtle ...
... verse has a sweep of harmony that seems to accord with an emphatic mind . He encountered in his principal poem the more than ordinary difficulties of a didactic subject . " To paint the finest features of the mind , And to most subtle ...
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... verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of Avon ...
... verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of Avon ...
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Page 280 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 281 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 278 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way.
Page 286 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 285 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Page 189 - Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare ; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast : Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Page 288 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 284 - A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Page 282 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid...
Page 186 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...