A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Swift. Thompson. Watts. Hamilton. A. Philips. G. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. HarteJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... fhore : No fooner did the land On the delightful ftrand , Than ftraight the fees the country all around , Where fatal Neptune rui'd erewhile , Scatter'd with flowery vales , with fruitful gardens And many a pleasant wood ! As if the ...
... fhore : No fooner did the land On the delightful ftrand , Than ftraight the fees the country all around , Where fatal Neptune rui'd erewhile , Scatter'd with flowery vales , with fruitful gardens And many a pleasant wood ! As if the ...
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... fhore approach too nigh ! The monsters neftle in the deep , To feize you in your paffing by . Then , like the dogs of Nile , be wife , Who , taught by inftinct how to fhun The crocodile , that lurking lies Run as they drink , and drink ...
... fhore approach too nigh ! The monsters neftle in the deep , To feize you in your paffing by . Then , like the dogs of Nile , be wife , Who , taught by inftinct how to fhun The crocodile , that lurking lies Run as they drink , and drink ...
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... fhore to fhore the rocks return the found : The dreadful murmur heaven's high convex cleaves , And Neptune shrinks beneath his fubject waves ; For long the whirling winds and beating tides Had foop'd a vault into its nether sides . Now ...
... fhore to fhore the rocks return the found : The dreadful murmur heaven's high convex cleaves , And Neptune shrinks beneath his fubject waves ; For long the whirling winds and beating tides Had foop'd a vault into its nether sides . Now ...
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... fhore Firft with the brazen cannons roar ; To meet him next the foldier comes , With brazen trumps and brazen drums ; Approaching near the town he hears The brazen bells falute his ears : But , when Wood's brafs began to found , Guns ...
... fhore Firft with the brazen cannons roar ; To meet him next the foldier comes , With brazen trumps and brazen drums ; Approaching near the town he hears The brazen bells falute his ears : But , when Wood's brafs began to found , Guns ...
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... fhore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath , And fing their wild notes to the liftening waste . At la from Aries rolls the bounteous fun , And the bright bull receives him . Then no more Th ' expanfive atmosphere is cramm'd with ...
... fhore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath , And fing their wild notes to the liftening waste . At la from Aries rolls the bounteous fun , And the bright bull receives him . Then no more Th ' expanfive atmosphere is cramm'd with ...
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Page 152 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Page 227 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 200 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 308 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 417 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost : My bosom glow'd ; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame ; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Page 532 - O thou, whose spirit most possest The sacred seat of Shakspeare's breast! By all that from thy prophet broke. In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee ! ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
Page 537 - And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 150 - As Rochefoucault his Maxims drew From Nature, I believe them true ; They argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast, ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Page 234 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 10 - Then stepp'd aside to fetch them drink, Fill'da large jug up to the brink, And saw it fairly twice go round ; Yet (what is wonderful !) they found, 'Twas still replenish'd to the top, As if they ne'er had touch'da drop.