New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British poets and poetical translators, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 1 |
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... light unsufferable , And that far beaming blaze of majesty , Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council - table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity , He laid aside ; and , here with us to be , Forsook the courts of everlasting day , [ clay ...
... light unsufferable , And that far beaming blaze of majesty , Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council - table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity , He laid aside ; and , here with us to be , Forsook the courts of everlasting day , [ clay ...
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... light , And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright ? See , how from far , upon the eastern road , The star - led wizards haste with odours sweet : O ! run , prevent them with thy humble ode , And lay it lowly at his ...
... light , And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright ? See , how from far , upon the eastern road , The star - led wizards haste with odours sweet : O ! run , prevent them with thy humble ode , And lay it lowly at his ...
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... Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds , with wonder whist , Smoothly the waters kiss'd , Whispering new joys to the mild ocean ; Who now hath quite forgot to rave , [ wave . While birds of calm sit brooding on the ...
... Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds , with wonder whist , Smoothly the waters kiss'd , Whispering new joys to the mild ocean ; Who now hath quite forgot to rave , [ wave . While birds of calm sit brooding on the ...
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... her part was done , And that her reign had here its last fulfilling : She knew such harmony alone Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union . At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light 4 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... her part was done , And that her reign had here its last fulfilling : She knew such harmony alone Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union . At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light 4 PART I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... light , [ array'd ; That with long beams the shamefaced night The helmed Cherubim , The sworded Seraphim , Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd , Harping in loud and solemn quire , [ Heir . With unexpressive notes , to ...
... light , [ array'd ; That with long beams the shamefaced night The helmed Cherubim , The sworded Seraphim , Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd , Harping in loud and solemn quire , [ Heir . With unexpressive notes , to ...
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Page 8 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Page 204 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or, how the royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry ; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 1 - This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 7 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
Page 7 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 202 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam' o'er the moor, To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek ; With heart-struck anxious care, inquires his name, While Jenny hafflins is afraid to speak : Weel pleased the mother hears it's nae wild, worthless rake. Wi...
Page 203 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care, And " Let us worship God !
Page 374 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 33 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God...
Page 160 - Who in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending. And if they make reply. Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it, is but motion, Tell flesh it is but dust; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.