The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 pages |
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... kind blessings Heaven can grant the fair ! Who trust alone in Beauty's feeble ray , Boast but the worth Bassora's pearls display ; Drawn from the deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light ...
... kind blessings Heaven can grant the fair ! Who trust alone in Beauty's feeble ray , Boast but the worth Bassora's pearls display ; Drawn from the deep , we own their surface bright , But , dark within , they drink no lustrous light ...
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... kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ; Sad o'er the dews two brother ...
... kind ; At that still hour , when awful midnight reigns , And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains ; What time the Moon had hung her lamp on high And past in radiance through the cloudless sky ; Sad o'er the dews two brother ...
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... tents appear , Nor the kind products of a bounteous year ; No more the date , with snowy blossoms crown'd ! But Ruin spreads her baleful fires around . ' Secander . In vain Circassia boasts her spicy groves , THE FUGITIVES . 17.
... tents appear , Nor the kind products of a bounteous year ; No more the date , with snowy blossoms crown'd ! But Ruin spreads her baleful fires around . ' Secander . In vain Circassia boasts her spicy groves , THE FUGITIVES . 17.
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... kind concern our pitying eyes o'erflow , Trace the sad tale , and own another's woe . To Rome removed , with wit secure to please , The comic sisters kept their native ease : With jealous fear declining Greece beheld Her own Menander's ...
... kind concern our pitying eyes o'erflow , Trace the sad tale , and own another's woe . To Rome removed , with wit secure to please , The comic sisters kept their native ease : With jealous fear declining Greece beheld Her own Menander's ...
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... kind ) , By thee disposed , no farther toil demand , But , just to Nature , own thy forming hand . So spread o'er Greece , th ' harmonious whole un- known , Even Homer's numbers charm'd by parts alone . Their own Ulysses scarce had ...
... kind ) , By thee disposed , no farther toil demand , But , just to Nature , own thy forming hand . So spread o'er Greece , th ' harmonious whole un- known , Even Homer's numbers charm'd by parts alone . Their own Ulysses scarce had ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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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.