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... plays upon its face , The Sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now ftrikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . THE FOURTH EDITION . DUBLIN : PRINTED BY JOHN JONES , No. 39 , COLLEGE - GREEN . M.DCC.LXXXVII , 17 MAR 1926 CONTENT ...
... plays upon its face , The Sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now ftrikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . THE FOURTH EDITION . DUBLIN : PRINTED BY JOHN JONES , No. 39 , COLLEGE - GREEN . M.DCC.LXXXVII , 17 MAR 1926 CONTENT ...
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... Playing , at , beat of drum , their martial pranks ; Should'ring and standing as if ftruck to stone , While condescending majefty looks on ; If monarchy consists in such base things , Sighing , I fay again , I pity kings ! To be ...
... Playing , at , beat of drum , their martial pranks ; Should'ring and standing as if ftruck to stone , While condescending majefty looks on ; If monarchy consists in such base things , Sighing , I fay again , I pity kings ! To be ...
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... play ) To win no praise when well wrought plans prevail ,, But to be rudely cenfur'd when they fail , To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall'ries with ...
... play ) To win no praise when well wrought plans prevail ,, But to be rudely cenfur'd when they fail , To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall'ries with ...
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... play the wanton with her pow'rs , Grow freakish , and o'erleaping ev'ry mound Spread anarchy and terror all around ? B. Agreed . But would you fell or flay your horfe For bounding and curvetting in his course ; Or if , when ridden with ...
... play the wanton with her pow'rs , Grow freakish , and o'erleaping ev'ry mound Spread anarchy and terror all around ? B. Agreed . But would you fell or flay your horfe For bounding and curvetting in his course ; Or if , when ridden with ...
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... British poets too the priesthood shar'd , And ev'ry hallow'd druid was a bard . But no prophetic fires to me belong , I play with fyllables , and fport in fong . A. At A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To fet 20 TABLE TAL K :
... British poets too the priesthood shar'd , And ev'ry hallow'd druid was a bard . But no prophetic fires to me belong , I play with fyllables , and fport in fong . A. At A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To fet 20 TABLE TAL K :
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Page 234 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 234 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 261 - LITTLE inmate, full of mirth Chirping on my kitchen hearth. Wheresoe'er be thine abode, Always harbinger of good, Pay me for thy warm retreat With a song more soft and sweet ; In return thou shalt receive Such a strain as I can give.
Page 183 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Page 250 - Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the selfsame power divine Taught you.
Page 255 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 129 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 166 - Ye powers who rule the tongue, if such there are, And make colloquial happiness your care, Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate, — A duel in the form of a debate.
Page 67 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 68 - He praised perhaps for ages yet to come, She never heard of half a mile from home ; He lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She safe in the simplicity of hers.