Table Talk, and Other PoemsJ. Sharpe, 1817 - 179 páginas |
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... slave . But let eternal infamy pursue The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one blast The post - horns of all Europe , lays her waste . Think yourself station'd on a tow'ring rock , To see a ...
... slave . But let eternal infamy pursue The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one blast The post - horns of all Europe , lays her waste . Think yourself station'd on a tow'ring rock , To see a ...
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... Slave , be free ! Thus happiness depends , as Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And ...
... Slave , be free ! Thus happiness depends , as Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And ...
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... slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that Nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward ...
... slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that Nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward ...
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... slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; Cheap , though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no ...
... slaves broke loose . She loses in such storms her very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; Cheap , though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no ...
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... slave , that dar'd oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And ev'ry venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd at the first word he spoke . Such men are rais'd to station and command , When Providence means mercy to ...
... slave , that dar'd oppose Her sacred cause , but trembled when he rose ; And ev'ry venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crush'd at the first word he spoke . Such men are rais'd to station and command , When Providence means mercy to ...
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beams beneath bids blasphemy blest bliss boast breast call'd charg'd charms Christian dark deeds deist delight design'd divine dread dream Earth eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flow'rs folly fools form'd frown give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heav'n heav'nly hope hour INNER TEMPLE int'rest JOHN SHARPE land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mercy mind muse nations hunt Nature never night o'er once peace pharisee PICCADILLY plac'd plain pleasure poet's pow'r praise pray'rs pretence pride proud prove race rais'd sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shame shine sight skies slave smile song soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas Virg virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM FINDEN wisdom Woden wrath zeal
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Página 194 - Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Página 145 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
Página 151 - He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home: 'Tis like a parcel sent you...
Página 196 - Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark ; But such as learning, without false pretence, The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense.
Página 159 - That, reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted — sojourn here ; The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And, made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Página 68 - Since the dear hour that brought me to Thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but Thine, Nor hoped but in Thy righteousness divine...
Página 133 - Tis even as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Página 158 - It happen'd on a solemn eventide, Soon after He that was our surety died, Two bosom friends, each pensively inclined, The scene of all those sorrows left behind, Sought their own village...
Página 50 - Oh how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation, as from weakness, free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Página 42 - Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell ; Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise ; Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies ; Like Eden's dread probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee ! No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest 470 Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.