A Collection of PoemsJ.Hughs, for] R.and J.Dodsley, 1758 |
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... blood to buy , Nor afks for glory at a price fo high . At her decree the war fufpended stands , And Britain's heroes hold their lifted hands : A 3 Their Their open brows no threat'ning frowns difguife , But gentler [ ૐ ]
... blood to buy , Nor afks for glory at a price fo high . At her decree the war fufpended stands , And Britain's heroes hold their lifted hands : A 3 Their Their open brows no threat'ning frowns difguife , But gentler [ ૐ ]
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... stand , And fling the brandish'd fabre from his hand . Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ftormy fhore The drum's harsh mufick , and the cannon's roar ; Let Let grim Bellona haunt the lawless plain , Where Tartar [ 9 ]
... stand , And fling the brandish'd fabre from his hand . Far hence be driv'n to Scythia's ftormy fhore The drum's harsh mufick , and the cannon's roar ; Let Let grim Bellona haunt the lawless plain , Where Tartar [ 9 ]
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... stand , To raise his Queen , and save a finking land , The wealthiest glebe to rav'nous Spaniards known He marks , and makes the golden world our own : Content with hands unfoil'd to guard the prize , And keep the ftore with undefiring ...
... stand , To raise his Queen , and save a finking land , The wealthiest glebe to rav'nous Spaniards known He marks , and makes the golden world our own : Content with hands unfoil'd to guard the prize , And keep the ftore with undefiring ...
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... stands , * And longs to weep when flowing Rowe commands : Britain's Spectators fhall their strength combine To mend our morals , and our taste refine , Fight virtue's cause , stand up in wit's defence , Win us from vice , and laugh us ...
... stands , * And longs to weep when flowing Rowe commands : Britain's Spectators fhall their strength combine To mend our morals , and our taste refine , Fight virtue's cause , stand up in wit's defence , Win us from vice , and laugh us ...
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... stand . What though the hero's flame reprefs'd Burns calmly in thy generous breast ; Yet who more dauntless to oppose In doubtful days our home - bred foes ? Who rais'd his country's wealth fo high , Or view'd with lefs defiring eye ...
... stand . What though the hero's flame reprefs'd Burns calmly in thy generous breast ; Yet who more dauntless to oppose In doubtful days our home - bred foes ? Who rais'd his country's wealth fo high , Or view'd with lefs defiring eye ...
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Page 326 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 187 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 200 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Page 325 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 23 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held ; In arms who triumph'd ; or in arts excell'd ; Chiefs, grac'd with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven...
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Page 140 - Invite, and contemplation aid: Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate The dark decrees and will of fate, And dreams beneath the spreading beech Inspire, and docile fancy teach; While soft as breezy breath of wind, Impulses rustle through the mind: Here Dryads, scorning Phoebus