The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of EachTurner & Hayden, 1844 - 308 páginas |
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... monsters in thy train appear ! Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round , an hideous form , Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose 20 TO FEAR .
... monsters in thy train appear ! Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round , an hideous form , Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose 20 TO FEAR .
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... round thy green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest ...
... round thy green retreat , On whose enamell'd side , When holy Freedom died , No equal haunt allured thy future feet . O sister meek of Truth , To my admiring youth Thy sober aid and native charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest ...
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... round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only ...
... round , And all thy sons , O Nature ! learn my tale . ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . As once , if not with light regard , I read aright that gifted bard ( Him whose school above the rest His loveliest Elfin queen has blest ) , One , only ...
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... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the valleys deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread , I view that oak , the ...
... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the valleys deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread , I view that oak , the ...
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... round revealing , It leap'd in glory forth , and dealt her prompted wound O Goddess ! in that feeling hour , When most its sounds would court thy ears , Let not my shell's misguided power E'er draw thy sad , thy mindful tears . No ...
... round revealing , It leap'd in glory forth , and dealt her prompted wound O Goddess ! in that feeling hour , When most its sounds would court thy ears , Let not my shell's misguided power E'er draw thy sad , thy mindful tears . No ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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Página 110 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Página 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Página 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Página 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Página 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Página 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Página 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Página 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.