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Page vi
... some time inter- rupted by the death of his father ; who was carried off fo fuddenly , that it was not poffible for Mr. Thomson , with all the diligence he could ufe , to receive his laft bleffing . This affected him to an uncommon ...
... some time inter- rupted by the death of his father ; who was carried off fo fuddenly , that it was not poffible for Mr. Thomson , with all the diligence he could ufe , to receive his laft bleffing . This affected him to an uncommon ...
Page viii
... Some inaccu- racies of ftyle , and thofe luxuriancies which a young writer can hardly avoid , lay open to their cavils and cenfure ; fo far indeed they might be competent judges : but the fire and enthusiasm of the poet had entirely ...
... Some inaccu- racies of ftyle , and thofe luxuriancies which a young writer can hardly avoid , lay open to their cavils and cenfure ; fo far indeed they might be competent judges : but the fire and enthusiasm of the poet had entirely ...
Page xviii
... some prejudice to our author ; in the refusal of a licence for his tragedy of Edward and Eleonora , which he had prepared for the ftage in the year 1739. The reader may fee that this play contains not a line which could juftly give ...
... some prejudice to our author ; in the refusal of a licence for his tragedy of Edward and Eleonora , which he had prepared for the ftage in the year 1739. The reader may fee that this play contains not a line which could juftly give ...
Page xxvii
... some humorous apo- logy for the offender . Nor was he ever seen ruffled or difcompofed , but when he read or heard of fome fla- grant inftance of injuftice , oppreffion , or cruelty : then , indeed , the ftrongest marks of horror and ...
... some humorous apo- logy for the offender . Nor was he ever seen ruffled or difcompofed , but when he read or heard of fome fla- grant inftance of injuftice , oppreffion , or cruelty : then , indeed , the ftrongest marks of horror and ...
Page 39
... Some eminence , AUGUSTA , in thy plains , And fee the country , far diffus'd around , One boundless blush , one white - empurpled shower Of mingled bloffoms ; where the raptur'd eye Hurries from joy to joy , and , hid beneath The fair ...
... Some eminence , AUGUSTA , in thy plains , And fee the country , far diffus'd around , One boundless blush , one white - empurpled shower Of mingled bloffoms ; where the raptur'd eye Hurries from joy to joy , and , hid beneath The fair ...
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Page 236 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Page 271 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 234 - Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Page 232 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 43 - Sits on the horizon round a settled gloom : Not such as wintry storms on mortals shed, Oppressing life ; but lovely, gentle, kind, And full of every hope and every joy, The wish of nature.
Page 261 - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's * fate, As with first prow (what have not Britons dared!) He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars.
Page 174 - Acasto's line ; and to my mind Recalls that patron of my happy life, From whom my liberal fortune took its rise; Now to the dust gone down ; his houses, lands, And once fair-spreading family, dissolved.
Page 82 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 102 - Urg'd to the giddy brink, much is the toil, The clamour much, of men, and boys, and dogs, Ere the soft fearful people to the flood Commit their woolly sides.
Page 236 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.