The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The library. The village. The newspaper. The parish register. The birth of flattery. Reflections. Sir Eustace Grey. The hall of justice. Woman. Miscellaneous poemsJohn Murray, 1834 |
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... charms the eye , but touches not the heart ; By thousands courted , but by few caress'd , False when pursued , and fatal when possess'd . From hence we rove , with Fancy for our guide , O'er this wide world , and other worlds more wide ...
... charms the eye , but touches not the heart ; By thousands courted , but by few caress'd , False when pursued , and fatal when possess'd . From hence we rove , with Fancy for our guide , O'er this wide world , and other worlds more wide ...
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... charms . Pamphlets are as modish ornaments to gentlewomen's toilets , as to gentlemen's pockets : they carry reputation of wit and learning to all that make them their companions ; the poor find their account in stall - keeping and ...
... charms . Pamphlets are as modish ornaments to gentlewomen's toilets , as to gentlemen's pockets : they carry reputation of wit and learning to all that make them their companions ; the poor find their account in stall - keeping and ...
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... charms of youth , Unequall'd love , and unsuspected truth ! the origin and history of romantic fiction , their attentions were so exclu- sively fixed upon the romance of chivalry alone , that they seem to have forgotten that , however ...
... charms of youth , Unequall'd love , and unsuspected truth ! the origin and history of romantic fiction , their attentions were so exclu- sively fixed upon the romance of chivalry alone , that they seem to have forgotten that , however ...
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... charms , These lofty notions and divine alarms , Too dearly bought — maturer judgment calls My pensive soul from ... charm me with their art , And not a griffin flies to glad my heart . No more the midnight fairy tribe I view , - dead ...
... charms , These lofty notions and divine alarms , Too dearly bought — maturer judgment calls My pensive soul from ... charm me with their art , And not a griffin flies to glad my heart . No more the midnight fairy tribe I view , - dead ...
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... and amorous knights , That find in humbler nymphs such chaste delights . Such heavenly charms , so gentle , yet so gay , That all their former follies fly away . - While thus , of power and fancied empire vain , 60 THE LIBRARY .
... and amorous knights , That find in humbler nymphs such chaste delights . Such heavenly charms , so gentle , yet so gay , That all their former follies fly away . - While thus , of power and fancied empire vain , 60 THE LIBRARY .
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Aldborough antè appear beauty behold blest boast BONNEL THORNTON bosom brave breast call'd charms command Crabbe dead death delight dread dreams Duke of Rutland E'en evil fair fame fancy fate favour fear feel fled foes Folly gay bride genius gentle GEORGE CRABBE give grace grave grief happy heart honour hope humble kind labour live look look'd Lope de Vega Lord Holland Lord Robert Lord Robert Manners Lord Thurlow Marquess of Granby mind Muse never numbers nymphs o'er pain Parish Parish Register passions peace pleasure poem poet poor praise pride race rage rest round rustic scenes scorn shame sigh sing slave smile soothe sorrow soul spirit swain taste tears thee thine thou thought truth verse vex'd Village virtue woes wretched youth
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Página 35 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 47 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 35 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books: since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Página 35 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 37 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 42 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Página 47 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Página 86 - passing rich with forty pounds a year?" Ah! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock; A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task, As much as God or Man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To Fields the morning and to Feasts the night; None better...
Página 74 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way? Yes, thus the Muses sing of happy swains, Because the Muses never knew their pains: They boast their peasants...
Página 55 - And glory long has made the sages smile; 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind — • Depending more upon the historian's style, Than on the name a person leaves behind. Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle : The present century was growing blind To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks, Until his late Life by Archdeacon Coxe.