The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled by T. JanesThomas Janes 1810 |
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... o'er the desert brown , To ev'ry distant mart and wealthy town . Full oft we tempt the land , and oft the sea ; And are we only yet repaid by thee ? Ah ! why was ruin so attractive made , Or why fond man so easily betray'd ? Why heed we ...
... o'er the desert brown , To ev'ry distant mart and wealthy town . Full oft we tempt the land , and oft the sea ; And are we only yet repaid by thee ? Ah ! why was ruin so attractive made , Or why fond man so easily betray'd ? Why heed we ...
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... the man , and want of it the fellow , The rest is all but leather or prunella . Stuck o'er with titles , and hung round with strings , That thou may'st be by kings , or whores of kings ; Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race , In 40.
... the man , and want of it the fellow , The rest is all but leather or prunella . Stuck o'er with titles , and hung round with strings , That thou may'st be by kings , or whores of kings ; Boast the pure blood of an illustrious race , In 40.
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... o'er : " Let pedants waste their hours of ease " To sweat all night at Socrates ; " And feed their boys with notes and rules , " Those tedious Recipes of Schools " To cure ambition : I can learn " With greater ease the great concern ...
... o'er : " Let pedants waste their hours of ease " To sweat all night at Socrates ; " And feed their boys with notes and rules , " Those tedious Recipes of Schools " To cure ambition : I can learn " With greater ease the great concern ...
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... o'er In ten thousand days and more . Yet the silly wand'ring mind , Loth to be too much confin'd , Roves and takes her daily tours , Coasting round the narrow shores , Narrow shores of flesh and sense , Picking shells and pebbles thence ...
... o'er In ten thousand days and more . Yet the silly wand'ring mind , Loth to be too much confin'd , Roves and takes her daily tours , Coasting round the narrow shores , Narrow shores of flesh and sense , Picking shells and pebbles thence ...
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... o'er all its penetrating sway , And kindles darkness , or puts out the day , From whom conceal'd no secret thoughts can rise , Escape thy notice , or deceive thine eyes , Known ere its birth , known ere in embryo warm'd , By words ...
... o'er all its penetrating sway , And kindles darkness , or puts out the day , From whom conceal'd no secret thoughts can rise , Escape thy notice , or deceive thine eyes , Known ere its birth , known ere in embryo warm'd , By words ...
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Page 81 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 93 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 94 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 92 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm...
Page 91 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 203 - Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Page 19 - While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge Him thy greater, sound His praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and w hen thou fall'st.
Page 176 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose...
Page 20 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 78 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.