A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Wilkie. Dodsley. Shaw. Smart. Langhorne. Bruce. Chatterton. Graeme. Glover. Lovibond. Penrose. Mickle. Jago. Scott. Johnson. W. Whitehead. Jenyns. Logan. Warton. Cotton. BlacklockJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1795 |
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... wild and lawlefs , like the ftormy wind , The fport of paflion , impotent and blind , The defp'rate paths of folly you pursue , And scorn inftruction with a lofty brow : Yet know , proud prince ! my purpose I retain , And fee thy threat ...
... wild and lawlefs , like the ftormy wind , The fport of paflion , impotent and blind , The defp'rate paths of folly you pursue , And scorn inftruction with a lofty brow : Yet know , proud prince ! my purpose I retain , And fee thy threat ...
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... wild boar's fhaggy hide , The lion's mane , the panther's fpeckled pride : Thefe figns we mark'd ; and knew the rocky feat , Some folitary hunter's wild retreat . Farther invited by a glimm'ring ray , Which through the darkness shed ...
... wild boar's fhaggy hide , The lion's mane , the panther's fpeckled pride : Thefe figns we mark'd ; and knew the rocky feat , Some folitary hunter's wild retreat . Farther invited by a glimm'ring ray , Which through the darkness shed ...
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... wild mountains only fuit my state , And footh with kindred gloom my deep regret . He ended thus amazement long fupprefs'd My voice ; but Cleon anfw'ring thus addrefs'd : Brave youth ! you offer to our wond'ring ears , Events more awful ...
... wild mountains only fuit my state , And footh with kindred gloom my deep regret . He ended thus amazement long fupprefs'd My voice ; but Cleon anfw'ring thus addrefs'd : Brave youth ! you offer to our wond'ring ears , Events more awful ...
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... wild abode ? You'll fay , ' tis to converfe with God : Alas , I fear , ' tis all a whim : You never faw or spoke with him . They talk of Providence's pow'r , And fay it rules us every hour ; To me all nature feems confufion , And fuch ...
... wild abode ? You'll fay , ' tis to converfe with God : Alas , I fear , ' tis all a whim : You never faw or spoke with him . They talk of Providence's pow'r , And fay it rules us every hour ; To me all nature feems confufion , And fuch ...
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... wilds , Himself uncultur'd as the foil he trod . The spiked harrow next , to break the clods , And spread the furface of ... wild thoughts to dangerous ecftaty . Her fhape was moulded by the hand of ease , Exact proportion harmoniz'd her ...
... wilds , Himself uncultur'd as the foil he trod . The spiked harrow next , to break the clods , And spread the furface of ... wild thoughts to dangerous ecftaty . Her fhape was moulded by the hand of ease , Exact proportion harmoniz'd her ...
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Page 135 - Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 263 - Now, Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Page 143 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 264 - There let me sleep forgotten in the clay, When Death shall shut these weary aching eyes, — Rest in the hopes of an eternal day, Till the long night is gone, and the last morn arise.
Page 187 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Page 531 - Thy successful arms we hail ; But remember our sad story, And let Hosier's wrongs prevail. Sent in this foul clime to languish, Think what thousands fell in vain, Wasted with disease and anguish, Not in glorious battle slain.
Page 158 - And num'rous was th' accepting throng. At length pale penury seiz'd the dame, And fortune fled, and ruin came ; She found her riches at an end, And that she had not made one friend.
Page 127 - Ye carry armies on your tow'r-crown'd backs, And grace the turban'd tyrants, bow to him Who is as great, as perfect and as good In his less-striking wonders, till at length The eye's at fault and seeks the assisting glass.
Page 376 - Mercury completes his transient year, Glowing, refulgent, with reflected glare; Bright Venus occupies a wider way, The early harbinger of night and day ; More distant still our globe terraqueous turns, Nor chills intense, nor fiercely heated burns ; Around her rolls the lunar orb of light, Trailing her silver glories through the night. On the earth's orbit see the various signs, Mark where the sun, our year completing, shines ; First the bright Ram his languid ray improves ; Next glaring wat'ry thro...
Page 315 - Syr Canterlone thenne bendedd lowe, Wythe harte brymm-fulle of woe ; Hee journey'd to the castle-gate, And to Syr Charles dydd goe. But whenne hee came, hys children twaine, And eke hys lovynge wyfe, Wythe brinie tears dydd wett the floore, For goode Syr Charleses lyfe. " O goode Syr Charles!" sayd Canterlone, " Badde tydyngs I doe brynge."