The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for John Sharpe, 1808 |
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... fame , Or powder'd peeress , counterfeits a flame . Behold him now , enraptur'd , swear and sigh , Dress , dance , drink , revel , all he knows not why , Till by kind Fate restor❜d to country air , He marks the roses of some rural fair ...
... fame , Or powder'd peeress , counterfeits a flame . Behold him now , enraptur'd , swear and sigh , Dress , dance , drink , revel , all he knows not why , Till by kind Fate restor❜d to country air , He marks the roses of some rural fair ...
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... Fame ; Ne'er can thy virtues , or thy verse , engage More solid praise than in this happiest age , When sense and merit's cherish'd by the throne , And each illustrous privilege their own . Though modest be thy gentle Muse , I ween , Oh ...
... Fame ; Ne'er can thy virtues , or thy verse , engage More solid praise than in this happiest age , When sense and merit's cherish'd by the throne , And each illustrous privilege their own . Though modest be thy gentle Muse , I ween , Oh ...
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... fame Of that new - form'd Arcadia reach'd his ear . And thus the swain , as o'er each hill and dale , Through lawn or thicket , he pursued his way : - ' What is it gilds the verdure of these meads With hues more bright than Fancy paints ...
... fame Of that new - form'd Arcadia reach'd his ear . And thus the swain , as o'er each hill and dale , Through lawn or thicket , he pursued his way : - ' What is it gilds the verdure of these meads With hues more bright than Fancy paints ...
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... fame ? Yet , if ingenuous be your mind , A bliss more pure and unconfin'd Your step attends - Draw freely nigh , And meet the bard's benignant eye : On him no pedant forms await , No proud reserve shuts up his gate ; No spleen , no ...
... fame ? Yet , if ingenuous be your mind , A bliss more pure and unconfin'd Your step attends - Draw freely nigh , And meet the bard's benignant eye : On him no pedant forms await , No proud reserve shuts up his gate ; No spleen , no ...
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... Virtue loves to name , Which Art consigns to lasting fame , Which fixes Wit or Beauty's throne , Derives its source from her alone . ARCADIO . TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE , ESQ . IN HIS SICKNESS . 16 ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE .
... Virtue loves to name , Which Art consigns to lasting fame , Which fixes Wit or Beauty's throne , Derives its source from her alone . ARCADIO . TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE , ESQ . IN HIS SICKNESS . 16 ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE .
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bard beauty Beauty mourns beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast breathe charms Clent hill crown'd dame Damon dear Delia delight drooping e'er Elegy envy ev'n fair faithless fame Fancy fate favour'd flame flow flow'rs fond form'd gentle glow gold grace ground grove haunts hear Heav'n hill lawn Leasowes Leather Lane lov'd lyre Lyttelton maid mind mournful Muse naiad native ne'er numbers nymph o'er pain paint path peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure polish'd pomp pow'r praise pride rill ROBERT DODSLEY rose rove rural scene scorn seat shade SHENSTONE shepherd shine shore shrubs shun sigh silvan sing skies smile soft song soul stream swain sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toils train trees tuneful Twas vale valley verdant virtue ween wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wood youth
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Էջ 159 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair: The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high achievements does declare; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been Kens the forth-coming rod, unpleasing sight, I ween!
Էջ 44 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah ! lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn — • I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
Էջ 158 - Here oft the dame, on Sabbath's decent eve, Hymned such psalms as Sternhold forth did mete, If winter 'twere, she to her hearth did cleave, But in her garden found a...
Էջ 154 - AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest Worth neglected lies While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprise: Lend me thy clarion, goddess!
Էջ 143 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Էջ 155 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Էջ 120 - If through the garden's flowery tribes I stray, Where bloom the jasmines that could once allure, "Hope not to find delight in us," they say, "For we are spotless, Jessy; we are pure.
Էջ 57 - Their colours and their sash he wore, And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure, Which gives the brave the keenest wound.
Էջ 45 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid. The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Էջ 157 - One ancient hen she took delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favour did her past deportment claim: And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.