The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... light , muft they decay ? On nature's felf , deftruction prey ? Then fame , the most immortal thing Ev'n thou canst hope , is on the wing . Shall Newton's System be admir'd , When time and motion are expir'd ? Shall fouls be curious to ...
... light , muft they decay ? On nature's felf , deftruction prey ? Then fame , the most immortal thing Ev'n thou canst hope , is on the wing . Shall Newton's System be admir'd , When time and motion are expir'd ? Shall fouls be curious to ...
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... light , Exalt e'en me ; all inward tumults quell ; The clouds and darkness of my mind dispel ; To my great fubject Thou my breast inspire , And raise my labouring foul with equal fire . 20 25 30 35 Man , bear thy brow aloft , view every ...
... light , Exalt e'en me ; all inward tumults quell ; The clouds and darkness of my mind dispel ; To my great fubject Thou my breast inspire , And raise my labouring foul with equal fire . 20 25 30 35 Man , bear thy brow aloft , view every ...
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... fhines on high ; No light , but from the terrors of the sky : Fall'n are her mountains , her fam'd rivers loft , And all into a fecond chaos tost : 165 One ~ 5 One univerfal ruin spreads abroad ; Nothing is fafe beneath YOUNG'S POEMS .
... fhines on high ; No light , but from the terrors of the sky : Fall'n are her mountains , her fam'd rivers loft , And all into a fecond chaos tost : 165 One ~ 5 One univerfal ruin spreads abroad ; Nothing is fafe beneath YOUNG'S POEMS .
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... light , And blefs the grave , and call for lafting night . Others , whofe long - attempted virtue stood Fix'd as a rock , and broke the rufhing flood , Whofe firm refolve , nor beauty could melt down , Nor raging tyrants from their ...
... light , And blefs the grave , and call for lafting night . Others , whofe long - attempted virtue stood Fix'd as a rock , and broke the rufhing flood , Whofe firm refolve , nor beauty could melt down , Nor raging tyrants from their ...
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... light With fuch diftinguish'd glory fills my fight ? Bend down , my grateful Mufe , that homage show , Which to fuch worthies thou art proud to owe . Wickham ! Fox ! Chichley ! hail , illuftrious * names , 125 Who to far diftant times ...
... light With fuch diftinguish'd glory fills my fight ? Bend down , my grateful Mufe , that homage show , Which to fuch worthies thou art proud to owe . Wickham ! Fox ! Chichley ! hail , illuftrious * names , 125 Who to far diftant times ...
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Page 79 - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life ; but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.
Page 112 - But after seven years' dance, from place to place The 'Dane is more familiar with his grace. Who'd be a crutch to prop a rotten peer ; Or living pendant dangling at his ear, For ever whisp'ring secrets, which were blown For months before, by trumpets, thro...
Page 10 - Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend ; Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend ; The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar, And break the bondage of his wonted shore ; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread ; Darkness the circle of the sun invade ; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
Page 131 - LIBERIA'S eye As riot, impudence, and perfidy ; The youth of fire, that has drunk deep, and play'd...
Page 97 - Though prone to like, yet cautious to commend, You read with all the malice of a friend; Nor favour my attempts that way alone, But more to raise my verse, conceal your own. An ill-tim'd modesty!
Page 81 - Let high birth triumph ! What can be more great ? Nothing — but merit in a low estate.
Page 82 - The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. In Britain, what is many a lordly seat, But a discharge in full for an estate...
Page 96 - I'll conjure thus some profit out of thee. O THOU myself! abroad our counsels roam, And, like ill husbands, take no care at home : Thou too art wounded with the common dart, And Love of Fame lies throbbing at thy heart; And what wise means to gain it hast thou chose?
Page 79 - Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went : One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear ; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their religion has been one.
Page 119 - But if, by chance, an ill-adapted word Drops from the lip of her unwary lord, Her darling china, in a whirlwind sent, Just intimates the lady's discontent.