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Common terms and phrasesahle ahove BLAGDON CEPHISUS charms cheer Crazy Jane delight dwell E'en earth ev'ry fair fairy fancy fate fear flow flower fond genins gentle glory glow grace grove Hackthorn hand happy heam hear heart heauteous heauty Heaven heen hefore hegan hehind hehold helow hend heneath hest hestow hids hird hirth hless hlest hliss hloom hlow hlush hoast holy hosom hoth hour hreast hreath hright hring hrow hurn husy Hymen Langhorne light live lyre maid MATILDA BETHAM mind morn mourn Musidora Nature's night nymph o'er ohey pain passion peace Philomel pity pleasure pow'r praise pride puhlished rise rose round scenes shade shepherd sigh sing skies smiling soft song sorrow soul sound spring strain swain sweet tear thee thine thon thou thought tremhling Twas vale virtue voice warhling wings youth Popular passagesPage 200 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend. Page 203 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy. Page 198 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Page 58 - 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... Page 199 - 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... Page 85 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds... Page 126 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Page 26 - From seeming Evil still educing Good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression. Page 119 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled Dawn doth rise... Page 150 - With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise : Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise... Bibliographic information
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