The beauties of English poetry, or A collection of poems extracted from the best authors1801 |
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... weep over the tombs of such as deserve to be lamented ; and Pastoral , to sing the innocence and pleasures of rural life . To promote such desirable ends the study of Poetry has ever met with the sanction and encouragement of men the ...
... weep over the tombs of such as deserve to be lamented ; and Pastoral , to sing the innocence and pleasures of rural life . To promote such desirable ends the study of Poetry has ever met with the sanction and encouragement of men the ...
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... than they . » And what is friendship but a name , « A charm that lulls to sleep ; » A shade that follows wealth or fame , » But leaves the wretch to weep ? » And love is still an emptier sound , >> OF ENGLISH POETRY .
... than they . » And what is friendship but a name , « A charm that lulls to sleep ; » A shade that follows wealth or fame , » But leaves the wretch to weep ? » And love is still an emptier sound , >> OF ENGLISH POETRY .
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... weep , false youth , like me ! » « O let me safely to the fair return , » Say , with a kiss , she must not , shall not mourn ! » O let me teach my heart to lose its fears , » Recall'd by wisdom's voice , and Zara's tears ! » ' He said ...
... weep , false youth , like me ! » « O let me safely to the fair return , » Say , with a kiss , she must not , shall not mourn ! » O let me teach my heart to lose its fears , » Recall'd by wisdom's voice , and Zara's tears ! » ' He said ...
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... weep . Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair She smil'd . - and my passion begun ; and I could not but love ; She is faithless - and I am undone . Perhaps I was void of all thought ; Perhaps it was plain to foresee , That a nymph ...
... weep . Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair She smil'd . - and my passion begun ; and I could not but love ; She is faithless - and I am undone . Perhaps I was void of all thought ; Perhaps it was plain to foresee , That a nymph ...
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... weep - - In all the pride of youthful charms , A beauteous bride torn from my circling arms ! A lovely babe that should have liv'd to bless , And fill my doting eyes with frequent tears , At once the source of rapture and distress , The ...
... weep - - In all the pride of youthful charms , A beauteous bride torn from my circling arms ! A lovely babe that should have liv'd to bless , And fill my doting eyes with frequent tears , At once the source of rapture and distress , The ...
Términos y frases comunes
Academus ANACREON Andromache arms beauteous beauty beneath bless blest bliss bosom breast breath bright call'd charms cheer Corydon cry'd death delight e'er ECLOGUE Emma Emma's ENGLISH POETRY Eurydice Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear flame fond gentle glow grace grief grove happy hear heart Heav'n Henry hermit hope hour lov'd lyre maid METASTASIO mind morn muse muse's nature's ne'er night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er pain passion peace pity plain pleas'd pleasure Plutus pow'r praise pride rage rais'd rise round rove scene seem'd shade shepherds shine sigh sing skies sleep smil'd smile soft song sorrow soul sound stormy winds strain swains sweet tears tempest Theana thee thine thou thought thro Timotheus Tis green toil touch'd trembling Twas vale virtue virtue's voice vows weep wild winds do blow woods wretch youth
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Página 55 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 90 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Página 162 - And glittering temples of their hostile gods." — The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy!
Página 9 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. "For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow, Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And, though my portion is but scant, I give it with good-will.
Página 171 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his fav'rite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn:' THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Página 78 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff...
Página 161 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the Snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their Hair, And the Sparkles that flash from their Eyes ! Behold a ghastly Band, Each a Torch in his Hand!
Página 78 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all...
Página 14 - Twas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Página 105 - Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.