The Works of the English Poets: J. Philips, Smith, and PomfretH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... delights ; diftrefs'd , forlorn , Amidst the horrors of the tedious night , Darkling I figh , and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or fometimes mournful verfe Indite , and fing of groves and myrtle shades , Or desperate lady ...
... delights ; diftrefs'd , forlorn , Amidst the horrors of the tedious night , Darkling I figh , and feed with dismal thoughts My anxious mind ; or fometimes mournful verfe Indite , and fing of groves and myrtle shades , Or desperate lady ...
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... Delighted ; till , in one , their curious eye Discerns their great subduer's awful mien , And corresponding features fair ; to them Confufion ! ftrait the airy phantoms fleet , With headlong hafte , and dread a new purfuit . The image ...
... Delighted ; till , in one , their curious eye Discerns their great subduer's awful mien , And corresponding features fair ; to them Confufion ! ftrait the airy phantoms fleet , With headlong hafte , and dread a new purfuit . The image ...
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... when Embattled troops with flowing banners pass Through flowery meads delighted , nor distrust The fmiling furface ; whilft the cavern'd ground , With grain incentive ftor'd , by sudden blaze Bursts fatal With 4 J. PHILIPS'S POEMS .
... when Embattled troops with flowing banners pass Through flowery meads delighted , nor distrust The fmiling furface ; whilft the cavern'd ground , With grain incentive ftor'd , by sudden blaze Bursts fatal With 4 J. PHILIPS'S POEMS .
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... delight of human life . What should we wish for more ? or why , in quest Of foreign vintage , infincere , and mixt , Traverse th ' extremeft world ? why tempt the rage Of the rough ocean ? when our native glebe Imparts , from bounteous ...
... delight of human life . What should we wish for more ? or why , in quest Of foreign vintage , infincere , and mixt , Traverse th ' extremeft world ? why tempt the rage Of the rough ocean ? when our native glebe Imparts , from bounteous ...
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... Thy prince's favour , and thy country's love . Meanwhile ( although the Maffic grape delights Pregnant of racy juice , and Formian hills Temper thy cups , yet ) wilt not thou reject Thy Thy native liquors lo ! for thee my mill Now [ 6 ]
... Thy prince's favour , and thy country's love . Meanwhile ( although the Maffic grape delights Pregnant of racy juice , and Formian hills Temper thy cups , yet ) wilt not thou reject Thy Thy native liquors lo ! for thee my mill Now [ 6 ]
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Page 4 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
Page 5 - Disastrous acts forebode. In his right hand Long scrolls of paper solemnly he waves, With characters and figures dire inscrib'd, Grievous to mortal eyes.
Page 6 - The wasp insidious, and the buzzing drone, And butterfly proud of expanded wings Distinct with gold, entangled in her snares, Useless...
Page 216 - I'd shun, with as much studious care, As I would dens where hungry lions are ; And rather put up injuries, than be A plague to him, who'd be a plague to me. I value quiet at a price too great...
Page 4 - Thus while my joyless minutes tedious flow, With looks demure, and silent pace, a Dun, Horrible monster ! hated by gods and men, To my aerial citadel ascends...
Page 53 - Sylvan (hades, and filent groves, (Haunt of the Druids) whence the earth is fed With copious fuel ; whence the fturdy oak, A prince's refuge once, th...
Page 7 - My weary limbs, my fancy's still awake ; Thoughtful of drink, and eager, in a dream, Tipples imaginary pots of ale In vain; awake, I find the settled thirst Still gnawing, and the pleasant phantom curse.
Page 289 - By great example to wise actions led : Much to the fame her lineal heroes bore She owes, but to her own high genius more; And, by a noble emulation mov'd, Excell'd their virtues, and her own improv'd ; Till they arriv'd to that celestial height, Scarce angels greater be, or saints so bright.
Page 316 - Fills it with restless doubts, and wild debates* Concerning what we, living, cannot find. None know what Death is. but the dead; Therefore we all, by nature, dying dread, As a strange, doubtful way, we know not how to tread.
Page 54 - Fresh blooming in thy generous son ; whose lips, Flowing with nervous eloquence exact, Charm the wise senate, and attention win In deepest councils: Ariconium pleas'd, Him, as her chosen worthy, first salutes. Him on th...