A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1765 - English poetry |
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... pleasure fain , And felt his every wound with fympathetic pain . LII . They , when their bleeding king they did behold , And faw an armed KNIGHT him standing near , Attended by that Palmer fage and bold ; Whose vent'rous fearch of ...
... pleasure fain , And felt his every wound with fympathetic pain . LII . They , when their bleeding king they did behold , And faw an armed KNIGHT him standing near , Attended by that Palmer fage and bold ; Whose vent'rous fearch of ...
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... pleasure led aftray , For - ever wand'ring in the sensual bow'rs Of feverish Debauch , and luftful Play , Spent on ignoble toils their active pow'rs , And with untimely blasts difeas'd their vernal hours . b Hefts , behefts , precepts ...
... pleasure led aftray , For - ever wand'ring in the sensual bow'rs Of feverish Debauch , and luftful Play , Spent on ignoble toils their active pow'rs , And with untimely blasts difeas'd their vernal hours . b Hefts , behefts , precepts ...
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... Pleasure's joyous pow'rs . LXIV . And ever on the way mote he espy Men , women , children , a promifcuous throng Of rich , poor , wife and fimple , low and high , By land , by water , paffing aye along With mummers , antics , music ...
... Pleasure's joyous pow'rs . LXIV . And ever on the way mote he espy Men , women , children , a promifcuous throng Of rich , poor , wife and fimple , low and high , By land , by water , paffing aye along With mummers , antics , music ...
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... pleasure , or unactive rust ; But nobly roufe you to the task affign'd , The godlike task to teach and mend mankind : Learn that ye may instruct : to virtue lead Yourselves the way : the herd will crowd behind , And gather precepts from ...
... pleasure , or unactive rust ; But nobly roufe you to the task affign'd , The godlike task to teach and mend mankind : Learn that ye may instruct : to virtue lead Yourselves the way : the herd will crowd behind , And gather precepts from ...
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... pleasure fain Thofe fculptur'd chiefs did fhew , and their great lives ex- [ plain " . " Great lives explain . ] I cannot forbear taking occafion from these words to make my acknowledgments to the writers of Bio- graphia Britannica ...
... pleasure fain Thofe fculptur'd chiefs did fhew , and their great lives ex- [ plain " . " Great lives explain . ] I cannot forbear taking occafion from these words to make my acknowledgments to the writers of Bio- graphia Britannica ...
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Page 6 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
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Page 8 - Lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues, but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a Throne, And...
Page 168 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 10 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
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Page 172 - To better features yields the frame of gold; For now no more we trace in ev'ry line Heroic worth, benevolence divine: The form distorted justifies the fall, And Detestation rids th