Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry1805 - 1016 pages |
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... sense , Here own how vain the fond pretence , Ye empty names of joy ! Your tranfient forms like thadows pafs , Frail offspring of the magic glafs , Before the mental eye . The dazzling colours , falfely bright , Attract the gazing ...
... sense , Here own how vain the fond pretence , Ye empty names of joy ! Your tranfient forms like thadows pafs , Frail offspring of the magic glafs , Before the mental eye . The dazzling colours , falfely bright , Attract the gazing ...
Page 97
... sense , but ftings the heart : when the gulls us of our wealth , that fuperior pearl , our health , sus mought but pains and woe , rowns us in the lake below . There a commiffion'd angel stands , With defolation in his hands ! He fends ...
... sense , but ftings the heart : when the gulls us of our wealth , that fuperior pearl , our health , sus mought but pains and woe , rowns us in the lake below . There a commiffion'd angel stands , With defolation in his hands ! He fends ...
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... sense ? Know , too , the joys of fenfe controul And clog the motions of the soul ; Forbid her pinions to aspire , Damp and impair her native fire ; And fure as fenfe , that tyrant ! reigns , She holds the emprefs Soul in chains ...
... sense ? Know , too , the joys of fenfe controul And clog the motions of the soul ; Forbid her pinions to aspire , Damp and impair her native fire ; And fure as fenfe , that tyrant ! reigns , She holds the emprefs Soul in chains ...
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... sense and wit , You'll grant , are very hard to hit ; But yet with patience you shall view As much as paint and art can do . Obferve the work . My Lord replied , Till now I thought my mouth was wide ; Befides , my nose is somewhat long ...
... sense and wit , You'll grant , are very hard to hit ; But yet with patience you shall view As much as paint and art can do . Obferve the work . My Lord replied , Till now I thought my mouth was wide ; Befides , my nose is somewhat long ...
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... sense , un- ftretcht We grave , we follow the renown'd By previous dread or murmur in the rear ; ,, fcience , all we love , [ beam When the worst comes , it comes unfear'd ; on we pae ; for worth , whofe noontide ours of ethereal pow'rs ...
... sense , un- ftretcht We grave , we follow the renown'd By previous dread or murmur in the rear ; ,, fcience , all we love , [ beam When the worst comes , it comes unfear'd ; on we pae ; for worth , whofe noontide ours of ethereal pow'rs ...
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Page 242 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 65 - Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man...
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