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... Virtue's friend , So like to Virtue's self appears . III . For who in glory can delight , Without delight in virtuous deeds ? What man a charming voice can slight , Who courts the echo that succeeds ? IV . But not the echo or the voice ...
... Virtue's friend , So like to Virtue's self appears . III . For who in glory can delight , Without delight in virtuous deeds ? What man a charming voice can slight , Who courts the echo that succeeds ? IV . But not the echo or the voice ...
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... virtue from his heavenly page ; Or such as MEAD's benignant fancy knows , When health's deep treasures , by his art explored , Have saved the infant from an orphan's woes , Or to his trembling sire his age's hope restored . " In the ...
... virtue from his heavenly page ; Or such as MEAD's benignant fancy knows , When health's deep treasures , by his art explored , Have saved the infant from an orphan's woes , Or to his trembling sire his age's hope restored . " In the ...
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... virtue's peaceful times ; Soon will you stoop to act the crimes , Which thus you stoop to fear . Guilt follows guilt ; and where the train Begins with wrongs of such a stain , What horrors form the rear ! " The closing stanzas are very ...
... virtue's peaceful times ; Soon will you stoop to act the crimes , Which thus you stoop to fear . Guilt follows guilt ; and where the train Begins with wrongs of such a stain , What horrors form the rear ! " The closing stanzas are very ...
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... virtue dwells with woe ; How many griefs from knowledge flow ; How swiftly pleasure flies . " This stanza calls to our recollection a still more beautiful one in Gray's poem on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude . " Still where rosy ...
... virtue dwells with woe ; How many griefs from knowledge flow ; How swiftly pleasure flies . " This stanza calls to our recollection a still more beautiful one in Gray's poem on the Pleasures arising from Vicissitude . " Still where rosy ...
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... virtue . I see , ' said he , ' young man , that you are just returned from the mansion of Ancient Fame ; and I perceive by your countenance that you have not been thoroughly satisfied with the goddess of the place , or with the order of ...
... virtue . I see , ' said he , ' young man , that you are just returned from the mansion of Ancient Fame ; and I perceive by your countenance that you have not been thoroughly satisfied with the goddess of the place , or with the order of ...
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Page 162 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 305 - For him, the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold and blushes like the morn.
Page 212 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 31 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 304 - Of envied life ; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state ; Yet nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows, at large, whatever happy man Will deign to use them. His the city's pomp, The rural honours his. Whate'er adorns The princely dome, the column and the arch, The breathing marbles and the sculptured gold, Beyond the proud possessor's narrow claim, His tuneful breast enjoys.
Page 310 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 140 - Wilt thou, eternal Harmony, descend And join this festive train? for with thee comes The guide, the guardian of their lovely sports, Majestic Truth; and where Truth deigns to come, Her sister Liberty- will not be far.
Page 235 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 233 - Nunc age quod superest cognosce et clarius audi. nec me animi fallit quam sint obscura ; sed acri percussit thyrso laudis spes magna meum cor et simul incussit suavem mi in pectus amorem musarum, quo nunc instinctus mente vigenti 925 avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante trita solo.
Page 303 - Hunc solem, et Stellas, et decedentia certis Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla Imbuti spectent...