Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784Thomas Campbell J. Murray, 1819 |
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... delightful dress . Besides , it fits you to a hair , And then ' tis slop'd with such an air . Mrs. S. I'm glad you think so , -Kitty , here , Bring me my cardinal , my dear . Jacky , my love , nay don't you cry , Take you abroad ...
... delightful dress . Besides , it fits you to a hair , And then ' tis slop'd with such an air . Mrs. S. I'm glad you think so , -Kitty , here , Bring me my cardinal , my dear . Jacky , my love , nay don't you cry , Take you abroad ...
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... delight and electrify a sensitive reader , but might put him to sleep by a perusal of the whole . This character of detached felicities , unconnected with interesting progress'or * reciprocal animation of parts , may be likened to ...
... delight and electrify a sensitive reader , but might put him to sleep by a perusal of the whole . This character of detached felicities , unconnected with interesting progress'or * reciprocal animation of parts , may be likened to ...
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... delight : Delight intense is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . COMPLAINT FOR NARCISSA . FROM NIGHT III . OH Philander 60 EDWARD YOUNG . Society necessary to Happiness (from the same)
... delight : Delight intense is taken by rebound ; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast . COMPLAINT FOR NARCISSA . FROM NIGHT III . OH Philander 60 EDWARD YOUNG . Society necessary to Happiness (from the same)
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... lilies ; fairest lilies not so fair ! So man is made ; nought ministers delight By what his glowing passions can engage ; And glowing passions , bent on aught below , Must , soon or late , with anguish turn the 62 EDWARD YOUNG .
... lilies ; fairest lilies not so fair ! So man is made ; nought ministers delight By what his glowing passions can engage ; And glowing passions , bent on aught below , Must , soon or late , with anguish turn the 62 EDWARD YOUNG .
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... delights ; But fools create themselves new appetites : Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense , Which relish not to reason , nor to sense . When surfeit , or unthankfulness , destroys , In nature's EDWARD YOUNG . 69.
... delights ; But fools create themselves new appetites : Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense , Which relish not to reason , nor to sense . When surfeit , or unthankfulness , destroys , In nature's EDWARD YOUNG . 69.
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Էջ 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Էջ 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Էջ 290 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Էջ 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Էջ 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Էջ 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Էջ 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Էջ 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Էջ 47 - 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 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...