Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing OfficeJ. Walter, 1785 - 225 pages |
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... arms . Whene'er the tyrant founds to war , Her canker'd trump is heard afar . PRIDE , with a heart unknown to yield , Commands in chief , and guides the field . + XERXES king of Perfia and fon of Darius . He invaded Greece with an army ...
... arms . Whene'er the tyrant founds to war , Her canker'd trump is heard afar . PRIDE , with a heart unknown to yield , Commands in chief , and guides the field . + XERXES king of Perfia and fon of Darius . He invaded Greece with an army ...
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... arms fuftain thy drooping head : And when the painful ftruggle's o'er , And that vain thing , the world , no more ; I'll bear my favourite fon away , 1 To rapture , and eternal day , FRIEND . FRIENDSHIP . F RIENDSHIP ! thou foft ...
... arms fuftain thy drooping head : And when the painful ftruggle's o'er , And that vain thing , the world , no more ; I'll bear my favourite fon away , 1 To rapture , and eternal day , FRIEND . FRIENDSHIP . F RIENDSHIP ! thou foft ...
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... arms , and bares her breast , Takes in the naked and distress'd ;; Prefers the hungry orphan's cries , And from her queen obtains fupplies . The maid , who acts this lovely part , Grafp'd in her hand a bleeding heart .. Fair CHARITY ...
... arms , and bares her breast , Takes in the naked and distress'd ;; Prefers the hungry orphan's cries , And from her queen obtains fupplies . The maid , who acts this lovely part , Grafp'd in her hand a bleeding heart .. Fair CHARITY ...
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... arms , • Unnumber'd fuitors came ; • Who prais'd me for imputed charms , • Or felt , or feign'd a flame . Each morn the gay fantastic crowd • With richest proffers strove : Among the reft young Edwin bow'd , • But never talk'd of love ...
... arms , • Unnumber'd fuitors came ; • Who prais'd me for imputed charms , • Or felt , or feign'd a flame . Each morn the gay fantastic crowd • With richest proffers strove : Among the reft young Edwin bow'd , • But never talk'd of love ...
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... bold , In weeds of peace high triumphs hold , With ftores of ladies , whofe bright eyes . Rain influence , and judge the prize Of wit or arms , while both contend To win D5 Of IN VERSE AND PROSE . 8r And young and old come forth to play ...
... bold , In weeds of peace high triumphs hold , With ftores of ladies , whofe bright eyes . Rain influence , and judge the prize Of wit or arms , while both contend To win D5 Of IN VERSE AND PROSE . 8r And young and old come forth to play ...
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Page 142 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "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 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 142 - 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. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 142 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.