Like Nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Line 465.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears

Her snaky crest.

Line 996.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.

Line 1149.

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

Line 1158.

The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of dews.

Summer. Line 47.

But yonder comes the powerful King of Day
Rejoicing in the east.

Line 81.

Ships dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds.

Line 946.

Sighed and looked unutterable things.

Line 1188.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

Line 1285.

So stands the statue that enchants the world,

So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

Line 1346.

Loveliness

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned, adorned the most.

Autumn. Line 204.

For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.

See Winter comes, to rule the varied year.

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

Line 233.

Winter. Line 1.
Line 393.

The kiss, snatched hasty from the side-long maid.

These as they change, Almighty Father! these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of Thee.

Line 625.

Hymn. Line 1.

Line 25.

Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade.

From seeming evil still educing good.

Line 114.

Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise.

Line 118.

Placed far amid the melancholy main.

Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30.

A little, round, fat, oily man of God.

Canto i. St. 69.

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;
Britons never will be slaves.

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

An unrelenting foe to love;

And, when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?

O Sophonisba ! Sophonisba, O !*

Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5

Song, For ever Fortune."

Sophonisba. Act . Sc. 2.

Whoe'er amidst the sons

Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue,

LIVE while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day ;

* The line was altered, after the second edition, to

'O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine.'

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DODSLEY-BROWN-JOHNSON.

Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views let both united be;

I live in pleasure, when I live to thee.

JOHN BROWN. 1715-1765.

Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced

That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten all our future days.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,-
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Line 159.

He left a name, at which the world grew pale,

To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Line 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know

That life protracted is protracted woe.

Line 257.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Line 308.

From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow,
And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate.

Line 316.

Line 346.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer-man a flower-
He dies-alas! how soon he dies.

LONDON.

Winter. An Ode.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Line 166.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Line 176.

Each change of many-coloured life he drew,
Exhausted worlds and then imagined new.

Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre.