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... d manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These dregs of life ! now the distemper'd mind Has lost that concord of harmonious powers , Which forms 10 SPRING .
... d manners , whence The fabling poets took their golden age , Are found no more amid these iron times , These dregs of life ! now the distemper'd mind Has lost that concord of harmonious powers , Which forms 10 SPRING .
Page 14
... age , adventurous , to have touch'd Light on the numbers of the Samian sage . High Heaven forbids the bold presumptuous strain , Whose wisest will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rise . Now when the first ...
... age , adventurous , to have touch'd Light on the numbers of the Samian sage . High Heaven forbids the bold presumptuous strain , Whose wisest will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rise . Now when the first ...
Page 27
... ages , of his empire ; which , in peace , Unstain'd he holds , while many a league to sea He wings his course , and preys in distant isles . Should I my steps turn to the rural seat , Whose lofty elms and venerable oaks Invite the rook ...
... ages , of his empire ; which , in peace , Unstain'd he holds , while many a league to sea He wings his course , and preys in distant isles . Should I my steps turn to the rural seat , Whose lofty elms and venerable oaks Invite the rook ...
Page 63
... ages , into higher powers . Thus up the mount , in airy vision wrapp'd , I stray , regardless whither ; till the sound Of a near fall of water every sense rx * A young lady , who died at the age of eighteen , in the year 1738 , upon ...
... ages , into higher powers . Thus up the mount , in airy vision wrapp'd , I stray , regardless whither ; till the sound Of a near fall of water every sense rx * A young lady , who died at the age of eighteen , in the year 1738 , upon ...
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... age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat , Spread thy ambrosial stores , and feast with Jove ! From these the prospect varies . Plains immense Lie stretch'd below , interminable meads , And vast savannahs , where the wandering ...
... age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat , Spread thy ambrosial stores , and feast with Jove ! From these the prospect varies . Plains immense Lie stretch'd below , interminable meads , And vast savannahs , where the wandering ...
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amid Apennines art thou Autumn beam beauty beneath blast blaze bliss blooming bosom boundless breast breath breeze bright CHARLES ROLLS charm clouds dark deep delight deluge descending diffused dreadful E'en earth ether exalted fair fair brow faithless fancy fierce flame flocks flood forest gale gentle gloom glowing grace grove happy heart heaven herds High raised hills JOHN SHARPE light Lycurgus matchless maze mingled mix'd mountains Muse Nature Nature's night o'er passions peace plain poison'd pomp pride rage rapture RICHARD WESTALL rills rise roar robe rocks roll round rural scene season shade shake shining shoot silvan smile snow soft song soul spreads Spring storm stream stretch'd swain sweet swell swift tempest tender thee thou thought thunder toil turbid Typhon vale vex'd virtue walk wander waste wave wide wild winds wing Winter wintry woods wrapp'd youth