The British Poets, Volume 6Little, Brown & Company, 1865 |
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... pride . When thus creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain . That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all ...
... pride . When thus creation's charms around combine , Amidst the store , should thankless pride repine ? Say , should the philosophic mind disdain . That good which makes each humbler bosom vain ? Let school - taught pride dissemble all ...
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... pride ; ⭑ While oft some temple's mouldering tops between With venerable grandeur mark the scene . Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . 4 theatric pride ] v . Lycophronis , Cass . v . 600 ...
... pride ; ⭑ While oft some temple's mouldering tops between With venerable grandeur mark the scene . Could nature's bounty satisfy the breast , The sons of Italy were surely blest . 4 theatric pride ] v . Lycophronis , Cass . v . 600 ...
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... pride ; From these the feeble heart and long - fallen mind An easy compensation seem to find . Here may be seen , in bloodless pomp array'd , 6 The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love , A ...
... pride ; From these the feeble heart and long - fallen mind An easy compensation seem to find . Here may be seen , in bloodless pomp array'd , 6 The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love , A ...
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... pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year : The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws , Nor weighs the solid worth of self - applause . To men of other minds my fancy flies , Embosom'd in the ...
... pride defrauds her daily cheer , To boast one splendid banquet once a year : The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws , Nor weighs the solid worth of self - applause . To men of other minds my fancy flies , Embosom'd in the ...
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... pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes glide . There all around the gentlest breezes stray , There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd , Extremes are only in the master's mind ...
... pride , And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes glide . There all around the gentlest breezes stray , There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd , Extremes are only in the master's mind ...
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Page 31 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Page 31 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 19 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 33 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 39 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 35 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven.
Page 30 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Page 27 - Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Page 28 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Page 1 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.