The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 56Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... verfe , " Shall deign our faithful passion to rehearse , " And future ages , with juft envy mov'd , " Be told how Damon and his Delia lov'd . " SOLILOQUY OF A BEAUTY " T IN THE COUNTRY . SOLI- 16 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
... verfe , " Shall deign our faithful passion to rehearse , " And future ages , with juft envy mov'd , " Be told how Damon and his Delia lov'd . " SOLILOQUY OF A BEAUTY " T IN THE COUNTRY . SOLI- 16 LYTTELTON'S POEMS .
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... Beauty , like wit , to judges should be fhown ; “ Both most are valued , where they best are known . " With every grace of nature or of art , " We cannot break one ftubborn country heart : " The brutes , infenfible , cur power defy ...
... Beauty , like wit , to judges should be fhown ; “ Both most are valued , where they best are known . " With every grace of nature or of art , " We cannot break one ftubborn country heart : " The brutes , infenfible , cur power defy ...
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... Beauty ought to lead ? " Were eyes fo radiant only made to read ? " These fingers , at whofe touch ev'n age would glow ,. " Are thefe of ufe for nothing but to few ? " Sure erring Nature never could defign " To form a housewife in a ...
... Beauty ought to lead ? " Were eyes fo radiant only made to read ? " These fingers , at whofe touch ev'n age would glow ,. " Are thefe of ufe for nothing but to few ? " Sure erring Nature never could defign " To form a housewife in a ...
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... confefs'd the faving power Of Malborough's hand ; Britain , who fent him forth C 2 Chief Chief of Confederate hofts , to fight the caufe Of SOLILOQUY OF A BEAUTY . 19 Blenheim Written at the University of Oxford, the Year 1727, -
... confefs'd the faving power Of Malborough's hand ; Britain , who fent him forth C 2 Chief Chief of Confederate hofts , to fight the caufe Of SOLILOQUY OF A BEAUTY . 19 Blenheim Written at the University of Oxford, the Year 1727, -
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... beauty boafts . Amid the mazy gloom Of this romantic wilderness once ftood The bower of Rofamonda , hapless fair , Sacred to Grief and Love ; the crystal fount In which the us'd to bathe her beauteous limbs Still warbling flows , pleas ...
... beauty boafts . Amid the mazy gloom Of this romantic wilderness once ftood The bower of Rofamonda , hapless fair , Sacred to Grief and Love ; the crystal fount In which the us'd to bathe her beauteous limbs Still warbling flows , pleas ...
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Page 330 - 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...
Page 333 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 333 - 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 330 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 333 - HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 340 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 347 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 356 - Strains of Immortality! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun.
Page 329 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 340 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that...