The Works of the English Poets: Dyer and MalletH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Truth , Whose hand upleads to light , divinest Truth , Array'd in every charm : whofe hand benign Teaches unwearied toil to cloath the fields , And on his various fruits infcribes the name Of Property : O nobly hail'd of old By thy ...
... Truth , Whose hand upleads to light , divinest Truth , Array'd in every charm : whofe hand benign Teaches unwearied toil to cloath the fields , And on his various fruits infcribes the name Of Property : O nobly hail'd of old By thy ...
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... truth howe'er fhines bright to human fenfe ; Each strong affection of th ' unconscious brute , Each bent , each paffion of the smallest mite , Is wifely given ; harmonious they perform The work of perfect reafon ( blush , vain man ...
... truth howe'er fhines bright to human fenfe ; Each strong affection of th ' unconscious brute , Each bent , each paffion of the smallest mite , Is wifely given ; harmonious they perform The work of perfect reafon ( blush , vain man ...
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... Truth endur'd ) Corrected , dignify'd ; creating good Where - ever they inhabit : this , our isle Has oft experienc'd ; witnefs all ye realms Of either hemifphere , where commerce flows : Th ' important truth is ftampt on every bale ...
... Truth endur'd ) Corrected , dignify'd ; creating good Where - ever they inhabit : this , our isle Has oft experienc'd ; witnefs all ye realms Of either hemifphere , where commerce flows : Th ' important truth is ftampt on every bale ...
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... Truth and Goodness fanctify the place : Yet blameless Virtue , that adorn'd thy bloom , Lamented maid ! now weeps upon thy tomb . O scap'd from life ! O safe on that calm shore , Where fin , and pain , and passion are no more ! What ...
... Truth and Goodness fanctify the place : Yet blameless Virtue , that adorn'd thy bloom , Lamented maid ! now weeps upon thy tomb . O scap'd from life ! O safe on that calm shore , Where fin , and pain , and passion are no more ! What ...
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... truth with rhetoric mixt , Once , as his moving theme to rapture warm'd , Infpir'd himself , his happy hearers charm'd . The fermon o'er , the croud remain'd behind , And freely , man or woman , spoke their mind : All faid they lik'd ...
... truth with rhetoric mixt , Once , as his moving theme to rapture warm'd , Infpir'd himself , his happy hearers charm'd . The fermon o'er , the croud remain'd behind , And freely , man or woman , spoke their mind : All faid they lik'd ...
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Page 4 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Page 6 - I lie ; While the wanton Zephyr sings. And in the vale perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep; While the birds unbounded fly, And with music fill the sky, Now, ev'n now. my joys run high.
Page 2 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies...
Page 7 - Bears me remote, o'er Gallia's woody bounds, O'er the cloud-piercing Alps remote ; beyond The vale of Arno purpled with the vine, Beyond the Umbrian and Etruscan hills, To Latium's wide champain, forlorn and waste, Where yellow Tiber his neglected wave Mournfully rolls.
Page 1 - Silent nymph, with curious eye, Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's lonely van, Beyond the noise of busy man ; Painting fair the form of things, While the yellow linnet sings ; Or the tuneful nightingale Charms the forest with her tale...
Page 5 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Page 12 - Th' enormous amphitheatre behold — Mountainous pile ! o'er whose capacious womb Pours the broad firmament its varied light ; While from the central floor the seats ascend...
Page 151 - That face, alas! no more is fair; Those lips no longer red: Dark are my eyes, now clos'd in death, And every charm is fled. The hungry worm my sister is; This winding-sheet I wear: And cold and weary lasts our night, Till that last morn appear.
Page 3 - And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Page 3 - Gaudy as the opening dawn, Lies a long and level lawn, On which a dark hill, steep and high, Holds and charms the wandering eye! Deep are his feet in Towy's flood, His sides are cloth'd with waving wood...