Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - Всего страниц: 283 |
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... wishes the more to engage Her lover her still to pursue . She'll prompt thee with an eagle eye Nature's hidden works how to scan , Where at every step you'll descry How powerful is th ' Almighty hand . If thy genius do soar aloft , And ...
... wishes the more to engage Her lover her still to pursue . She'll prompt thee with an eagle eye Nature's hidden works how to scan , Where at every step you'll descry How powerful is th ' Almighty hand . If thy genius do soar aloft , And ...
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... wish to employ , So deep in observances sunk , And so full of religion's alloy . A rational plan I'll pursue , Endeav'ring the mind to improve ; Of mankind I'll take a brief view , And mark how the passions do move . What a field to my ...
... wish to employ , So deep in observances sunk , And so full of religion's alloy . A rational plan I'll pursue , Endeav'ring the mind to improve ; Of mankind I'll take a brief view , And mark how the passions do move . What a field to my ...
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... wish others to do , To us and likewise to mankind , Such duties we'll cheerful bestow , With ready and resolute mind . How beautiful it is to see The heart throb at tales of deep woe , And sympathy moistening the e'e , Make the tear of ...
... wish others to do , To us and likewise to mankind , Such duties we'll cheerful bestow , With ready and resolute mind . How beautiful it is to see The heart throb at tales of deep woe , And sympathy moistening the e'e , Make the tear of ...
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... wish for a friend , On whom I could always rely ; My happiness it would extend , As friendship's a sweet social tie . And if Heaven would competence give , All grandeur and state I'd despise ; Contented and frugal I'd live , And ...
... wish for a friend , On whom I could always rely ; My happiness it would extend , As friendship's a sweet social tie . And if Heaven would competence give , All grandeur and state I'd despise ; Contented and frugal I'd live , And ...
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... wish to shine , Freely let loose the moral rein , And swear all pleasures are divine , Your Thus unto sense , pages will each youth incline , With mind intense . Life's giddy years thus quickly pass , And age advances on apace ; A ...
... wish to shine , Freely let loose the moral rein , And swear all pleasures are divine , Your Thus unto sense , pages will each youth incline , With mind intense . Life's giddy years thus quickly pass , And age advances on apace ; A ...
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Стр. 8 - In poets as true genius is but rare, True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write.
Стр. 280 - ... would vitrify or dissipate any substance known to us. Sir Isaac Newton computed the heat of the comet that appeared in the year 1680, when nearest the sun, to be 2,000 times hotter than red-hot iron, and that, being thus heated, it must retain its heat till it...
Стр. 282 - Others of less note followed the infamous example. On their combined evidence several of the conspirators were seized, condemned, and executed. Among these, the most distinguished were Russell and Sidney. Both died with the intrepidity of men who had resolved to hazard their lives in the field, in order to break the fetters of slavery, and rescue themselves and their fellow-subjects from an ignominious despotism.