The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 pages |
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... hearts believe the truths I tell ; " Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell . ' Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ; Nor praise , but such as Truth bestow'd , desired : Wise in himself , his meaning songs convey'd ...
... hearts believe the truths I tell ; " Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell . ' Thus Selim sung , by sacred Truth inspired ; Nor praise , but such as Truth bestow'd , desired : Wise in himself , his meaning songs convey'd ...
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... hearts believe in vain That Love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the ...
... hearts believe in vain That Love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermine beautify the skin : Who seeks secure to rule , be first her care Each softer virtue that adorns the ...
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... heart is fix'd on one alone : Desponding Meekness , with her downcast eyes , And friendly Pity , full of tender sighs : And Love , the last : by these your hearts approve , These are the virtues that must lead to love . ' Thus sung the ...
... heart is fix'd on one alone : Desponding Meekness , with her downcast eyes , And friendly Pity , full of tender sighs : And Love , the last : by these your hearts approve , These are the virtues that must lead to love . ' Thus sung the ...
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... heart , and own'd the powerful maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet as thou go'st may every blast arise Weak and ...
... heart , and own'd the powerful maid , When fast she dropt her tears , as thus she said : " Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain , Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain ! Yet as thou go'st may every blast arise Weak and ...
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... heart was fired : A russet mantle , like a swain , he wore , And thought of crowns and busy courts no more . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Blest was the life that royal Abbas led ...
... heart was fired : A russet mantle , like a swain , he wore , And thought of crowns and busy courts no more . ' Be every youth like royal Abbas moved , And every Georgian maid like Abra loved ! ' Blest was the life that royal Abbas led ...
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Page 110 - 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 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Page 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Page 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.