A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope. Gay. Pattison. Hammond. Savage. Hill. Tickell. Somervile. Broome. Pitt. BlairJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1794 |
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... muse appears to justify The long - lost graces of fimplicity : So rural beauties captivate our sense With virgin charms , and native excellence : Yet long her modefty those charms conceal'd , Till by men's envy to the world reveal'd ...
... muse appears to justify The long - lost graces of fimplicity : So rural beauties captivate our sense With virgin charms , and native excellence : Yet long her modefty those charms conceal'd , Till by men's envy to the world reveal'd ...
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... muse . A foul like thine , in pains , in grief refign'd , Views with vain fcorn the malice of mankind : Not critics , but their planets , prove unjust ; And are they blam'd who fin because they must ? Yet fure not fo muft all perufe thy ...
... muse . A foul like thine , in pains , in grief refign'd , Views with vain fcorn the malice of mankind : Not critics , but their planets , prove unjust ; And are they blam'd who fin because they must ? Yet fure not fo muft all perufe thy ...
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... muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays ; Hear what from love unpractis'd hearts endure , From love , the fole difeale thou canst not cure . ΤΟ Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ...
... muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of ivy to thy bays ; Hear what from love unpractis'd hearts endure , From love , the fole difeale thou canst not cure . ΤΟ Ye fhady beeches , and ye cooling streams , Defence from Phoebus ...
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... muse in- fpires ; Whom humbler joys of home - felt quiet please , Succeffive ftudy , exercife , and cafe . He gathers health from herbs the foreft yields , And of their fragrant physic spoils the fields ; With chemic art exalts the ...
... muse in- fpires ; Whom humbler joys of home - felt quiet please , Succeffive ftudy , exercife , and cafe . He gathers health from herbs the foreft yields , And of their fragrant physic spoils the fields ; With chemic art exalts the ...
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... muse though thousand charms con- Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair , Not for the doctrine , but the music there . Thefe ...
... muse though thousand charms con- Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to church repair , Not for the doctrine , but the music there . Thefe ...
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Página 92 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 23 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 92 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 89 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 89 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 13 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Página 35 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 161 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 102 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!