Poetical Remains of French Laurence, D.C.L., M.P. and Richard Laurence, D.C.L., Archbishop of Cashel: With a Brief Memoir of Each Author1872 - English poetry - 172 pages |
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adieu affliction's amorous ANTISTROPHE Archbishop Laurence arms beam beauty beholds bless blest bliss bloom blush bosom breast breathe bright brow Burke Cashel charms cheek Connal Corpus Christi College Crimora dawn dear death dread Edmund Burke fair Fancy fear feelings fire flame fond fondly FRENCH LAURENCE Frenchpark frowns gaze gentle glance glittering gloom glow grace grief HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGEITON hear heart Heaven hill Holy Order hour Jehovah's Joseph Warton joys kindling kiss light LONGFORD CASTLE lyre magic maid mark Meleager Milton mind murmuring muse night o'er Oxford pleasures POETICAL REMAINS praise pride rapture RICHARD LAURENCE rise Rolliad rose round scenes shade Shakespear sigh smiles sober soft song SONNET sorrow soul Spring strain stream sweet sweetly tear tempests thee thou thro University of Oxford vale wake Waterford wave wings WRITTEN youth
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Page 69 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past...
Page 13 - ... spoken. It was in reference to this unvarying effect of Dr. Laurence's delivery, that Mr. Fox once said, a man should attend, if possible, to a speech of his, and then speak it over again himself : it must, he conceived, succeed infallibly, for it was sure to be admirable in itself, and as certain of being new to the audience. But in this saying there was considerably more wit than truth. The Doctor's speech was sure to contain materials not for one, but for half a dozen speeches ; and a person...
Page 66 - ON THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE, FROM THE ITALIAN OF FILICAJA. As some fond mother views her infant race, With tender love o'erflowing while she sees ; She kisses one, one clasps in her embrace, Her feet supporting one, and one her knees ; Then, as the winning gesture, speaking face, Or plaintive cry explain their different pleas, A look, a word she deals with various grace, And smiles, or frowns, as Love alone decrees. O'er man, frail kind, so Providence Divine Still watches; hears, sustains, and succours...
Page 17 - ... excellere,) it was in vain to deny that the same person, who exceeded all others in powers of hard working upon the dullest subjects, and who had, by his life of labour, become as a Dictionary to his friends, had also produced a larger share than any one contributor, to the epigrams, the burlesques, the grave ironies and the broad jokes, whether in verse or in prose, of the Rolliad.
Page 10 - Now that parly-animosity is silent, let justice, let gratitude, let a sense of our dignity, as a house, awaken, and let us acknowledge with one common voice, that we have lost a man whose like we shall not soon see again.
Page 30 - Fancy ; to his sight, Glancing in all their colors, be displayed The airy forms that sport in thy pure fields of light, For his vast mind, with innate wisdom fraught, Beyond what taught The bards of yore Thy trackless regions boldly shall explore, I guiding. Thus, O Goddess, have I sworn ; And now is come the fated hour ; Earth now shall see, and own thy power, Forth beaming in thy Son. Be Shakspeare born.
Page 12 - Graevius entering the senate with somewhere from one-half to two-thirds of his next folio at his fingers' ends, to awaken the flagging attention, and strike animation into the lazy debate. He might have spoken with the wit of Voltaire and the humour of Scarron united; none of it could pierce through the lumber of his solid matter ; and any spark that by chance found its way, was stifled by the still more uncouth manner. As an author, he had no such defects ; his profuse stores of knowledge — his...
Page 64 - Print their trace, Where he skims the watery level ; Curling waves with murmuring sound Foam around : Yet no storm of wrath collected Speaks that sound ; the sign but shows, Ocean knows How to make his power respected ! Thus we on that brow discern, Sweetly stern, Terrors which no pain occasion : 'Tis not anger that is shown ; 'Tis alone Beauty daunting bold invasion ; And that gentle look severe Charms endear So transporting to the lover, Not one thought he more employs On the joys Which her beauteous...
Page 55 - L'hebbi fedele, intrepido, costante, De pensieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono ; Quando rugge il gran mondo, e scocca il tuono...
Page 89 - TO A YOUNG LADY *. WHY thus decline my troubled eyes, If hither their mild lustre bending Those azure orbs to meet me rise ? Why thus with thee conversing, dies My voice, in broken murmurs ending ? Yet, dawning from my looks distrest, Yet, wooing in the coy expression Of faltering sounds, that half-supprest In sighs ill stifled breathe the rest, Read — ah too dear ! the fond confession.