Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Fear came upon me , trembling on all my bones ; the hair of my flesh stood up ; a spirit pass- ed by and stood still , but its form was undiscernible ; an image before mine eyes ; and silence ; then I heard a voice , saying , Shall ...
... Fear came upon me , trembling on all my bones ; the hair of my flesh stood up ; a spirit pass- ed by and stood still , but its form was undiscernible ; an image before mine eyes ; and silence ; then I heard a voice , saying , Shall ...
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... fears , must needs be under the command of an harmonious pen , whose every line makes a part of the reader's faith ... fear , that the tuneful men of our day have not raised their ambition to so di- vine a pitch ; I should rejoice to ...
... fears , must needs be under the command of an harmonious pen , whose every line makes a part of the reader's faith ... fear , that the tuneful men of our day have not raised their ambition to so di- vine a pitch ; I should rejoice to ...
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... fear is the properest passion to which we can address our- selves , and begin the divine work : others can feel no motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their ingenuity , and their polished imagination . Now I thought it ...
... fear is the properest passion to which we can address our- selves , and begin the divine work : others can feel no motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their ingenuity , and their polished imagination . Now I thought it ...
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... fear , and all I wish , Heaven , Earth and EARTH AND HEAVEN . HAST thou not seen , impatient boy ! Hast thou not read the solemn truth , That gray experience writes for giddy youth On every mortal joy ? Pleasure must be dash'd with pain ...
... fear , and all I wish , Heaven , Earth and EARTH AND HEAVEN . HAST thou not seen , impatient boy ! Hast thou not read the solemn truth , That gray experience writes for giddy youth On every mortal joy ? Pleasure must be dash'd with pain ...
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... fears away ; News from the region of the skies , Salvation's born to - day . " Jesus , the God whom angels fear , Comes down to dwell with you ; To - day he makes his entrance here , But not as monarchs do . " No gold , nor purple ...
... fears away ; News from the region of the skies , Salvation's born to - day . " Jesus , the God whom angels fear , Comes down to dwell with you ; To - day he makes his entrance here , But not as monarchs do . " No gold , nor purple ...
Common terms and phrases
ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
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Էջ 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Էջ 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Էջ 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Էջ 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Էջ 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Էջ 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Էջ 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Էջ 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Էջ 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Էջ 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...