The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 74
... peace Are painful truths at best . Vainly the time I have to roll In fad reflection flies ; Ye fondling paffions of my foul ! I wifely Ye fweet deceits ! arife . I wifely change the scene within , To things that 74 PARNELL'S POEMS .
... peace Are painful truths at best . Vainly the time I have to roll In fad reflection flies ; Ye fondling paffions of my foul ! I wifely Ye fweet deceits ! arife . I wifely change the scene within , To things that 74 PARNELL'S POEMS .
Page 78
... peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek ...
... peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born , and bred on high , To crown the favorites of the sky With more of happiness below , Than victors in a triumph know ! Whither , O whither art thou fled , To lay thy meek ...
Page 79
... peace , appear ! This world itself , if thou art here , Is once again with Eden bleft , And man contains it in his breaft . ' Twas thus , as under fhade I ftood , I fung my wishes to the wood , And , loft in thought , no more perceiv'd ...
... peace , appear ! This world itself , if thou art here , Is once again with Eden bleft , And man contains it in his breaft . ' Twas thus , as under fhade I ftood , I fung my wishes to the wood , And , loft in thought , no more perceiv'd ...
Page 84
... peace . ; With ftill remark the pondering Hermit'view'd , In one fo rich , a life fo poor and rude And why should fuch , within himself he cry'd , Lock the loft wealth a thousand want befide ? But what new marks of wonder foon took ...
... peace . ; With ftill remark the pondering Hermit'view'd , In one fo rich , a life fo poor and rude And why should fuch , within himself he cry'd , Lock the loft wealth a thousand want befide ? But what new marks of wonder foon took ...
Page 89
... peace , refign , and fin no more . On founding pinions here the youth withdrew , The Sage ftood wondering as the Seraph flew . Thus look'd Elifha when , to mount on high , His mafter took the chariot of the sky ; The fiery pomp ...
... peace , refign , and fin no more . On founding pinions here the youth withdrew , The Sage ftood wondering as the Seraph flew . Thus look'd Elifha when , to mount on high , His mafter took the chariot of the sky ; The fiery pomp ...
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