The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the AuthorB. Johnson, J. Johnson and R. Johnson, 1805 - 132 էջ |
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... soft varieties invite , By day the frolic , and the dance by night , Who frown with vanity , who smile with art , And ask the latest fashion of the heart , What care , what rules your heedless charms shall save , Each nymph your rival ...
... soft varieties invite , By day the frolic , and the dance by night , Who frown with vanity , who smile with art , And ask the latest fashion of the heart , What care , what rules your heedless charms shall save , Each nymph your rival ...
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... life . Now o'er the rural kingdom roves Soft Pleasure with her laughing train , Love warbles in the vocal groves , And vegetation plants the plain . Unhappy ! whom to beds of pain Arthritic tyranny consigns ODES . 85 Spring,
... life . Now o'er the rural kingdom roves Soft Pleasure with her laughing train , Love warbles in the vocal groves , And vegetation plants the plain . Unhappy ! whom to beds of pain Arthritic tyranny consigns ODES . 85 Spring,
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... Soft pleasing woes my heart invade , As Progne pours the melting lay . From this capricious clime she soars , O ! would some god but wings supply ! To where each morn the Spring restores , Companion of her flight , I'd fly . Vain wish ...
... Soft pleasing woes my heart invade , As Progne pours the melting lay . From this capricious clime she soars , O ! would some god but wings supply ! To where each morn the Spring restores , Companion of her flight , I'd fly . Vain wish ...
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... soft sighs of vernal gales , The fragrance of the flow'ry vales , The murmurs of the crystal rill , The vocal grove , the verdant hill ; Not all their charms , though all unite , Can 94 MISCELLANIES . Epigram on George II and Colley ...
... soft sighs of vernal gales , The fragrance of the flow'ry vales , The murmurs of the crystal rill , The vocal grove , the verdant hill ; Not all their charms , though all unite , Can 94 MISCELLANIES . Epigram on George II and Colley ...
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... enchain thy pow'rs ? While artful shades thy downy couch enclose , And soft solicitation courts repose . Amidst the drowsy charms of dull delight , Year chases 104 MISCELLANIES . Paraphrase of Proverbs, Chap IV Verse 6-11,
... enchain thy pow'rs ? While artful shades thy downy couch enclose , And soft solicitation courts repose . Amidst the drowsy charms of dull delight , Year chases 104 MISCELLANIES . Paraphrase of Proverbs, Chap IV Verse 6-11,
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Էջ 22 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Էջ 21 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Էջ 67 - 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; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song : And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Էջ 19 - 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...
Էջ 69 - 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 58 - With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend...
Էջ 58 - 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 80 - Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Էջ 99 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Էջ 68 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th