The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... divine ! In wither'd laurels glide before my fight ! What lengths of far - fam'd ages , billow'd high With human agitation , roll along In unsubstantial images of air ! The melancholy ghosts of dead renown , Whispering faint echoes of ...
... divine ! In wither'd laurels glide before my fight ! What lengths of far - fam'd ages , billow'd high With human agitation , roll along In unsubstantial images of air ! The melancholy ghosts of dead renown , Whispering faint echoes of ...
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... divine , fweeps ftars and funs aside . And now , all drofs remov'd , heaven's own pure day , Full on the confines of our æther , flames . While ( dreadful contraft ! ) far , how far beneath ! Hell , bursting , belches forth her blazing ...
... divine , fweeps ftars and funs aside . And now , all drofs remov'd , heaven's own pure day , Full on the confines of our æther , flames . While ( dreadful contraft ! ) far , how far beneath ! Hell , bursting , belches forth her blazing ...
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... divine ordain'd , 380 385 That planted Eden , and high - bloom'd for man , A fairer Eden , endless , in the fkies . Heaven gives us friends to blefs the present scene ; Refumes them , to prepare us for the next . All evils natural are ...
... divine ordain'd , 380 385 That planted Eden , and high - bloom'd for man , A fairer Eden , endless , in the fkies . Heaven gives us friends to blefs the present scene ; Refumes them , to prepare us for the next . All evils natural are ...
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... divine , The Muse has stray'd ; and much of forrow seen In human ways ; and much of false and vain ; Which none , who travel this bad road , can miss . Q'er friends deceas'd full heartily she wept ; Of love divine the wonders the ...
... divine , The Muse has stray'd ; and much of forrow seen In human ways ; and much of false and vain ; Which none , who travel this bad road , can miss . Q'er friends deceas'd full heartily she wept ; Of love divine the wonders the ...
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... divine , 555 Thy flowing mantle form ; and , heaven throughout , Voluminously pour thy pompous train . 560 Thy gloomy grandeurs ( nature's most august , Infpiring afpect ! ) claim a grateful verfe ; And , like a fable curtain starr'd ...
... divine , 555 Thy flowing mantle form ; and , heaven throughout , Voluminously pour thy pompous train . 560 Thy gloomy grandeurs ( nature's most august , Infpiring afpect ! ) claim a grateful verfe ; And , like a fable curtain starr'd ...
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Æther art thou beams beneath bleffing blifs boaft boaſt boundleſs breaſt Britain Britain's Britannia's cauſe Codrus darkneſs death defcend diftant divine dread earth eternal facred fafe fame fate fatire feas fenfe fhall fhine fhould fing firſt fkies flame fleep fmile fome fong fons forrow foul fpirits ftand ftars ftill ftreams fubject fuch fwell genius glorious glory gods heart heaven human immortal juſt laſt lefs leſs Lorenzo luftre man's mankind mighty moft mortal moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt nature's ne'er night numbers o'er paffion pain paſt peace Pindar pleaſe pleaſure praife praiſe preſent pride profe proud raiſe reafon refign'd Refignation rife riſe ſcene ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtorm ſtrikes thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne Trade virtue Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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Página 4 - What is the world itself? thy world — a grave. Where is the dust that has not been alive ? The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors. From human mould we reap our daily bread. The globe around earth's hollow surface shakes, And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons. O'er devastation we blind revels keep : Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel.
Página 50 - Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ! Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust.
Página 37 - How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll ! And what it seems, it is : great objects make Great minds, enlarging as their views enlarge ; Those still more godlike, as these more divine. And more divine than these, thou canst not see.
Página 8 - Vain hope ! it is too late! Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and despair!
Página 44 - What hand behind the scene, What arm Almighty, put these wheeling globes In motion, and wound up the vast machine?
Página 191 - To show (in vain !) he still retains his wits : Another marries, and his dear proves keen ; He writes as an hypnotic for the...
Página 90 - Twixt human and divine. But though full noble is my theme. Full urgent is my call To soften sorrow, and forbid The bursting tear to fall : The task I dread ; dare I to leave Of...
Página 190 - With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes : Slight, peevish insects round a genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter, and they sting : But as by depredations wasps proclaim The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame.
Página 26 - Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! Nor tarries there ; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.
Página 1 - Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords, And chants his sonnet to deceive the time, Till the due season calls him to repose : Thus I...