The Works of the English Poets: J. Philips, Smith, and PomfretH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fruits that the fun's genial rays Mature , john - apple , nor the downy peach , Nor walnut in rough - furrow'd coat secure , Nor medlar fruit delicious in decay : Afflictions great ! yet greater still remain : My Galligaskins , that ...
... fruits that the fun's genial rays Mature , john - apple , nor the downy peach , Nor walnut in rough - furrow'd coat secure , Nor medlar fruit delicious in decay : Afflictions great ! yet greater still remain : My Galligaskins , that ...
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... fruits , Thy gift , Pomona , in Miltonian verse Adventurous I presume to fing ; of yerfe Nor skill'd , nor ftudious : but my native soil Invites me , and the theme as yet unfung . Ye Ariconian knights , and fairest dames , To whom ...
... fruits , Thy gift , Pomona , in Miltonian verse Adventurous I presume to fing ; of yerfe Nor skill'd , nor ftudious : but my native soil Invites me , and the theme as yet unfung . Ye Ariconian knights , and fairest dames , To whom ...
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... fruits , and wafts their odors sweet Wide through the air , and diftant shores perfumes . Nor only do the hills exclude ... fruit Of beauteous form produce ; pleafing to fight , But to the tongue inelegant and flat .. So So Nature has ...
... fruits , and wafts their odors sweet Wide through the air , and diftant shores perfumes . Nor only do the hills exclude ... fruit Of beauteous form produce ; pleafing to fight , But to the tongue inelegant and flat .. So So Nature has ...
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... fruits of various tastes , Fail not by frequent vows t'implore fuccefs ; Thus piteous Heaven may fix the wandering globe . Bul if ( for Nature doth not share alike Her gifts ) an happy foil should be withheld ; If a penurious clay ...
... fruits of various tastes , Fail not by frequent vows t'implore fuccefs ; Thus piteous Heaven may fix the wandering globe . Bul if ( for Nature doth not share alike Her gifts ) an happy foil should be withheld ; If a penurious clay ...
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... fruit expect Th ' autumnal season , but , in fummer's pride , When other orchats fmile , abortive fail . Thus the great light of heaven , that in his courfe Surveys and quickens all things , often proves Noxious to planted fields , and ...
... fruit expect Th ' autumnal season , but , in fummer's pride , When other orchats fmile , abortive fail . Thus the great light of heaven , that in his courfe Surveys and quickens all things , often proves Noxious to planted fields , and ...
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Page 5 - Disastrous acts forebode. In his right hand Long scrolls of paper solemnly he waves, With characters and figures dire inscrib'd, Grievous to mortal eyes.
Page 6 - The wasp insidious, and the buzzing drone, And butterfly proud of expanded wings Distinct with gold, entangled in her snares...
Page 4 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
Page 7 - An horrid chasm disclose, with orifice Wide, discontinuous ; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Page 63 - Hinds to exercise the pointed Steel On the hard Rock, and give a wheely Form To the expected Grinder: Now prepare Materials for thy Mill, a sturdy Post Cylindric, to support the Grinder's Weight Excessive, and a flexile Sallow' entrench'd, Rounding, capacious of the juicy Hord.
Page 53 - Sylvan fhades, and filent groves, "(Haunt (Haunt of the Druids) whence the earth is fed With copious fuel ; whence the fturdy oak, A prince's refuge once, th...
Page 289 - By great example to wise actions led : Much to the fame her lineal heroes bore She owes, but to her own high genius more; And, by a noble emulation mov'd, Excell'd their virtues, and her own improv'd ; Till they arriv'd to that celestial height, Scarce angels greater be, or saints so bright.
Page 72 - s emblazon'd by the rosy dawn, Domestic cares awake them ; brisk they rise, Refresh'd, and lively with the joys that flow From amicable talk, and moderate cups Sweetly interchang'd.
Page 214 - Near some obliging, modest fair to live : For there's that sweetness in a female mind Which in a man's we cannot hope to find...
Page 51 - Traverse th' extremest world ? why tempt the rage Of the rough ocean ? when our native glebe Imparts, from bounteous womb, annual recruits Of wine delectable, that far surmounts Gallic, or Latin grapes, or those that see The setting sun near Calpe's towering height. Nor let the Rbodian, nor the Lesbian vines Vaunt their rich Must, nor let Tokay contend For sovereignty ; Phanaeus