Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry1805 - 1016 pages |
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... such are the charms of the Goddess , such her powerful influence over the heart of man , that she will never want voluntary votaries at her shrine . The Author of Na- ture has kindly implanted in man a love of Poetry , to solace him ...
... such are the charms of the Goddess , such her powerful influence over the heart of man , that she will never want voluntary votaries at her shrine . The Author of Na- ture has kindly implanted in man a love of Poetry , to solace him ...
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... such pieces as were already in use in schools , or which seemed proper for the use of them ; such a number and vari- ety as might furnish something satisfactory to every taste , and serve as a little Poetical Library for school - boys ...
... such pieces as were already in use in schools , or which seemed proper for the use of them ; such a number and vari- ety as might furnish something satisfactory to every taste , and serve as a little Poetical Library for school - boys ...
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... Such then is God , a Spirit pure , refin'd From all material drofs ; and fuch the human mind . For in what part of effence can we fee More certain marks of Immortality ? Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight She looks abroad ...
... Such then is God , a Spirit pure , refin'd From all material drofs ; and fuch the human mind . For in what part of effence can we fee More certain marks of Immortality ? Ev'n from this dark confinement with delight She looks abroad ...
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... Such , without wit , are poets when they pl As without learning they can take degree Leave dang'rous truths to unfuccefsful f And flatt'ry to fulfome dedicators , Whom , when they praife , the world belie Than when they promise to give ...
... Such , without wit , are poets when they pl As without learning they can take degree Leave dang'rous truths to unfuccefsful f And flatt'ry to fulfome dedicators , Whom , when they praife , the world belie Than when they promise to give ...
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... Such was the Mufe whofe rules and practice tell , " Nature's chief Mafter - piece is writing well . ' Such was Rofcommon , not more learn'd than good , with fury , but they write with Horace more in wrong translations critics in as ...
... Such was the Mufe whofe rules and practice tell , " Nature's chief Mafter - piece is writing well . ' Such was Rofcommon , not more learn'd than good , with fury , but they write with Horace more in wrong translations critics in as ...
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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...
Page 14 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Page 464 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 202 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 499 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 203 - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, And left a lover's for a father's arms.
Page xi - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 479 - The slender Fir, that taper grows, The sturdy Oak with broad-spread Boughs...
Page 66 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...