The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 pages |
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... live to exhaust . The guineas were then repaid , and the translation neg . lected . But man is not born for happiness : Collins , who , while he studied to live , felt no evil but poverty , no sooner lived to study than his life was ...
... live to exhaust . The guineas were then repaid , and the translation neg . lected . But man is not born for happiness : Collins , who , while he studied to live , felt no evil but poverty , no sooner lived to study than his life was ...
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... live - long hours she told , Till late at silent eve she penn'd the fold . Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue ...
... live - long hours she told , Till late at silent eve she penn'd the fold . Deep in the grove , beneath the secret shade , A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : Gay - motley'd pinks and sweet jonquils she chose , The violet blue ...
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... lives around : And , gazing oft her mirror true , By turns each shifting image view ! Till meddling Art's officious lore Reverse the lessons taught before ; Alluring from a safer rule , To dream in her enchanted school ; Thou , Heav'n ...
... lives around : And , gazing oft her mirror true , By turns each shifting image view ! Till meddling Art's officious lore Reverse the lessons taught before ; Alluring from a safer rule , To dream in her enchanted school ; Thou , Heav'n ...
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... live . Waked at his call , I view with glad surprise Majestic forms of mighty monarchs rise . There Henry's trumpets spread their loud alarms , And laurell'd Conquest waits her hero's arms . Here gentle Edward claims a pitying sigh ...
... live . Waked at his call , I view with glad surprise Majestic forms of mighty monarchs rise . There Henry's trumpets spread their loud alarms , And laurell'd Conquest waits her hero's arms . Here gentle Edward claims a pitying sigh ...
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... lives in every line : Chaste and subdued the modest lights decay , Steal into shades , and mildly melt away . -And see , where ⚫Antony , in tears approved , Guards the pale relics of the chief he loved : O'er the cold corse the warrior ...
... lives in every line : Chaste and subdued the modest lights decay , Steal into shades , and mildly melt away . -And see , where ⚫Antony , in tears approved , Guards the pale relics of the chief he loved : O'er the cold corse the warrior ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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Page 110 - 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 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Page 78 - 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 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Page 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.