Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... live without that impious string , or show my zeal THE CREATOR AND CREATURES . GOD is a name my soul adores , Th ' Almighty Three , th ' Eternal One ; Nature and Grace , with all their powers , Confess the Infinite Unknown . From thy ...
... live without that impious string , or show my zeal THE CREATOR AND CREATURES . GOD is a name my soul adores , Th ' Almighty Three , th ' Eternal One ; Nature and Grace , with all their powers , Confess the Infinite Unknown . From thy ...
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... live for ever curst , And seek in vain to die . The gasp of your expiring breath Consigns your souls to chains , By the last agonies of death Sent down to fiercer pains . Ye stand upon a dreadful steep , And all beneath is Hell : Your ...
... live for ever curst , And seek in vain to die . The gasp of your expiring breath Consigns your souls to chains , By the last agonies of death Sent down to fiercer pains . Ye stand upon a dreadful steep , And all beneath is Hell : Your ...
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... live : Preserve thy body chaste , and flee th ' unlawful bed ; Nor steal thy neighbour's gold , his garment , or his bread ; Forbear to blast his name with falsehood , or deceit ; Nor let thy wishes loose upon his large estate ...
... live : Preserve thy body chaste , and flee th ' unlawful bed ; Nor steal thy neighbour's gold , his garment , or his bread ; Forbear to blast his name with falsehood , or deceit ; Nor let thy wishes loose upon his large estate ...
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... live ; thus half - divine I sit on high , nor inind inferior joys : Fill'd with his love , I feel that God is mine , His glory is my great design , That everlasting project all my thoughts employs . O shall I never feel The meltings of ...
... live ; thus half - divine I sit on high , nor inind inferior joys : Fill'd with his love , I feel that God is mine , His glory is my great design , That everlasting project all my thoughts employs . O shall I never feel The meltings of ...
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... live ? " Speak , are you strong to bear the load , The weighty vengeance of a God ? Which of you loves our wretched race , Or dares to venture in our place ? ” In vain we ask for all around ' Stands silence through the heavenly ground ...
... live ? " Speak , are you strong to bear the load , The weighty vengeance of a God ? Which of you loves our wretched race , Or dares to venture in our place ? ” In vain we ask for all around ' Stands silence through the heavenly ground ...
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...