The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1G. Bigg, 1779 - 2 pages |
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Page 23
... wide , 585 Than , all alive , at once their joy o'erflows In mufic unconfin'd . Up - springs the lark , Shrill - voic'd , and loud , the meffenger of morn ; Ere yet the fhadows fly , he mounted fings Amid the dawning clouds , and from ...
... wide , 585 Than , all alive , at once their joy o'erflows In mufic unconfin'd . Up - springs the lark , Shrill - voic'd , and loud , the meffenger of morn ; Ere yet the fhadows fly , he mounted fings Amid the dawning clouds , and from ...
Page 24
... wide around , With diftant awe , in airy rings they rove , Endeavouring by a thousand tricks to catch The cunning , confcious , half - averted glance Of their regardless charmer . Should the feem Softening the leaft approvance to bestow ...
... wide around , With diftant awe , in airy rings they rove , Endeavouring by a thousand tricks to catch The cunning , confcious , half - averted glance Of their regardless charmer . Should the feem Softening the leaft approvance to bestow ...
Page 27
... wide around , the woods Sigh to her fong , and with her wail refound . But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , difdain ; and , weighing oft their wings , Demand the free poffeffion of the sky : This one glad office ...
... wide around , the woods Sigh to her fong , and with her wail refound . But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , difdain ; and , weighing oft their wings , Demand the free poffeffion of the sky : This one glad office ...
Page 32
... 870 But come , ye generous minds , in whose wide thought , Of all his works , creative Bounty burns . With warmest beam ; and on your open front And And liberal eye , fits , from his dark retreat 32 THOMSON'S POEMS .
... 870 But come , ye generous minds , in whose wide thought , Of all his works , creative Bounty burns . With warmest beam ; and on your open front And And liberal eye , fits , from his dark retreat 32 THOMSON'S POEMS .
Page 35
... Wide - ftretching from the Hall , in whose kind haunt The Hofpitable Genius lingers still , To where the broken landskip , by degrees , Afcending , roughens into rigid hills ; O'er which the Cambrian mountains , like far clouds That ...
... Wide - ftretching from the Hall , in whose kind haunt The Hofpitable Genius lingers still , To where the broken landskip , by degrees , Afcending , roughens into rigid hills ; O'er which the Cambrian mountains , like far clouds That ...
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