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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... shine ! The star of Venus lends her brightest ray , When other stars their friendly beams resign . Still in my breast one soft desire remains , Pure as that star , from guilt , from interest , free ; Has gentle Delia tripp'd across the ...
... shine ! The star of Venus lends her brightest ray , When other stars their friendly beams resign . Still in my breast one soft desire remains , Pure as that star , from guilt , from interest , free ; Has gentle Delia tripp'd across the ...
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... shine ! ' Twas Jove's own nectar gave the ' ethereal hue : Can base plebeian forms contend with mine , Display the lovely white , or match the blue ? " The painter strove to trace its azure ray ; He chang'd his colours , and in vain he ...
... shine ! ' Twas Jove's own nectar gave the ' ethereal hue : Can base plebeian forms contend with mine , Display the lovely white , or match the blue ? " The painter strove to trace its azure ray ; He chang'd his colours , and in vain he ...
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... shine his arms in history enroll❜d ; Whilst humbler lyres his civil worth proclaim , His nobler hate of avarice and gold.— Now Punic pride its final eve survey'd , Its hosts exhausted , and its fleets on fire ; Patient the victor's ...
... shine his arms in history enroll❜d ; Whilst humbler lyres his civil worth proclaim , His nobler hate of avarice and gold.— Now Punic pride its final eve survey'd , Its hosts exhausted , and its fleets on fire ; Patient the victor's ...
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... courts , and void of pompous cares , I'll muse how much I owe mine humbler fate ; Or shrink to find how much Ambition dares , To shine in anguish , and to grieve in state ! Can'st thou , O Sun ! that spotless throne disclose ELEGIES . 111.
... courts , and void of pompous cares , I'll muse how much I owe mine humbler fate ; Or shrink to find how much Ambition dares , To shine in anguish , and to grieve in state ! Can'st thou , O Sun ! that spotless throne disclose ELEGIES . 111.
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... shine , To hear it grateful own the generous aid ; This , this is transport - but must ne'er be mine ! Faint is my bounded bliss ; nor I refuse To 116 ELEGIES . To Delia, with some Flowers; complaining how much his Benevolence suffers ...
... shine , To hear it grateful own the generous aid ; This , this is transport - but must ne'er be mine ! Faint is my bounded bliss ; nor I refuse To 116 ELEGIES . To Delia, with some Flowers; complaining how much his Benevolence suffers ...
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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.