The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1880 |
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... toils and ornaments of earth , Discerns the nobler life reserv'd for heaven . ” fc . I. 489 ( Sec . Poem ) . On a series of papers by Addison , in " The Spectator , " Akenside founded his great didactic poem . To Shaftesbury and ...
... toils and ornaments of earth , Discerns the nobler life reserv'd for heaven . ” fc . I. 489 ( Sec . Poem ) . On a series of papers by Addison , in " The Spectator , " Akenside founded his great didactic poem . To Shaftesbury and ...
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... toil , - My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing 10 Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks ...
... toil , - My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing 10 Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent Fancy ! from the fruitful banks ...
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... toil ... Obscure , to conquer the severe ascent Of high Parnassus . Nature's kindling breath Must fire the chosen genius ; Nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings Impatient of the painful steep , to soar High as ...
... toil ... Obscure , to conquer the severe ascent Of high Parnassus . Nature's kindling breath Must fire the chosen genius ; Nature's hand Must string his nerves , and imp his eagle - wings Impatient of the painful steep , to soar High as ...
Էջ 122
... toil . 90 To some she taught the fabric of the sphere , The changeful moon , the circuit of the stars , The golden zones of heaven : to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time , and space , and fate's unbroken ...
... toil . 90 To some she taught the fabric of the sphere , The changeful moon , the circuit of the stars , The golden zones of heaven : to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time , and space , and fate's unbroken ...
Էջ 125
... toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to survey ...
... toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to survey ...
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Էջ 8 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Էջ 136 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
Էջ xvi - Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition.
Էջ 186 - Each passing Hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreprov'd.
Էջ 125 - Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air, pursues the flying storm, Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens ; Or, yoked with whirlwinds, and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day.
Էջ 135 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Էջ 124 - And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent Of nature, calls him to his high reward, The applauding smile of Heaven?
Էջ 187 - Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien. But if to ampler prospects, if to gaze On Nature's form, where, negligent of all These lesser graces, she assumes the port Of that eternal majesty that weigh'd . The world's foundations...
Էջ 248 - Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears? Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour...
Էջ 28 - Muse, though artless, was not mute : Of elegance as yet he took no care; For this of time and culture is the fruit ; And Edwin gain'd at last this fruit so rare : As in some future verse I purpose to declare.