The Works of the English Poets: Blackmore

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H. Hughs, 1779

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Página 108 - Does not the river from the mountain flow, And bring down riches to the vale below? See how the torrent rolls the golden sand From the high ridges to the flatter land. The lofty lines abound with endless store Of mineral treasure, and metallic ore; With precious veins of silver, copper, tin, Without how barren, yet how rich within!
Página 226 - Thee her Author, and ador'd Thy throne ; Able to know, admire, enjoy her GOD, She did her high felicity applaud. Since Thou didst all the spacious worlds display, Homage to Thee let all obedient pay.
Página 101 - Wild brambles only, and the noxious weed, Did not industrious man, with endless toil, Extort his food from the reluctant soil; Did not the farmer's steel the furrow wound, And harrows tear the harvest from the ground., The earth would no spontaneous fruits afford To man, her vain imaginary lord. Oft when the labouring hind has plough'd the field. And forc'd the glebe unwillingly to yield, When green and flowery nature crowns his hope With the gay...
Página 79 - How soon the' effulgent emanations fly Through the blue gulf of interposing sky ! How soon their lustre all the region fills, Smiles on the vallies and adorns the hills ! Millions of miles, so rapid is their race, To cheer the earth, they in few moments pass. Amazing progress ! At its utmost stretch, What human mind can this swift motion reach ? But if, to save so...
Página 71 - How his unvary'd labour he repeats, Returns at morning, and at eve retreats; And by the distribution of his light, Now gives to man the day, and now the night: Night, when the drowsy swain and...
Página 24 - I persuade myself the Epicurean philosophy had not lived so long, nor been so much esteemed, had it not been kept alive and propagated by the famous poem...
Página 97 - The' alternate sovereigns of the night and day; View the wide earth adorn'd with hills and woods, Rich in her herds, and fertile by her floods ; Walk through the deep apartments of the main, Ascend the air to visit clouds and rain ; And, while we...
Página 39 - NO more of courts, of triumphs, or of arms, No more of valour's force, or beauty's charms ; The themes of vulgar lays, with just disdain, I leave unsung, the flocks, the amorous swain,. The pleasures of the land, and terrors of the main.. How abject, how inglorious 'tis to lie Grovelling in dust and darkness, when on...
Página 112 - tis not, mortal man, a transient life, like thine> Others, to whom the whole mechanic tribe With an harmonious sympathy subscribe, Nature with empire universal crown, And this high queen the world's creator own. If you, what builder rear'd the world demand, They say 'twas done by nature's powerful hand.
Página 89 - Engender jaundice, spotted torments breed, And purple plagues, from pestilential seed ; Exhaling vapours would be turn'd to swarms Of noxious insects, and destructive worms, More than were rais'd to scourge tyrannic lust, By Moses

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