Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 5 |
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... various climes to guide , Which seas , and tongues , and faiths , divide , A nobler name in Windsor's shrine Shall leave , if right the Muse divine , Than sprung of old , abhorr'd and vain , From ravag'd realms and myriads slain . Why ...
... various climes to guide , Which seas , and tongues , and faiths , divide , A nobler name in Windsor's shrine Shall leave , if right the Muse divine , Than sprung of old , abhorr'd and vain , From ravag'd realms and myriads slain . Why ...
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... various breed , And no less various use . O thou , great prince ! Whom Cambria's towering hills proclaim their lord , Deign thou to hear my bold , instructive song . While grateful citizens with pompous show , Rear the triumphal arch ...
... various breed , And no less various use . O thou , great prince ! Whom Cambria's towering hills proclaim their lord , Deign thou to hear my bold , instructive song . While grateful citizens with pompous show , Rear the triumphal arch ...
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... various tribes ; To rear , feed , hunt , and discipline the pack . Hail , happy Britain ! highly favour'd isle , And Heaven's peculiar care ! To thee ' tis given To train the sprightly steed , more fleet than those Begot by winds , or ...
... various tribes ; To rear , feed , hunt , and discipline the pack . Hail , happy Britain ! highly favour'd isle , And Heaven's peculiar care ! To thee ' tis given To train the sprightly steed , more fleet than those Begot by winds , or ...
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... various tints ; his ears and legs Fleckt here and there , in gay enamell'd pride , Rival the speckled pard ; his rush - grown tail O'er his broad back bends in an ample arch ; On shoulders clean , upright and firm he stands ; His round ...
... various tints ; his ears and legs Fleckt here and there , in gay enamell'd pride , Rival the speckled pard ; his rush - grown tail O'er his broad back bends in an ample arch ; On shoulders clean , upright and firm he stands ; His round ...
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... various ends , And crown thy pleasing labours with success . As some brave captain , curious and exact , By his fix'd standard forms in equal ranks His gay battalion , as one man they move Step after step , their size the same , their ...
... various ends , And crown thy pleasing labours with success . As some brave captain , curious and exact , By his fix'd standard forms in equal ranks His gay battalion , as one man they move Step after step , their size the same , their ...
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Page 176 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph, that adores and burns : To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 206 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 171 - Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 112 - Who gave the ball or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes: At every word a reputation dies.
Page 167 - AWAKE, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan: ' A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 108 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Page 123 - Oh hadst thou, cruel! been content to seize Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these!
Page 175 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Page 170 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 131 - Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid ; They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires, The virgin's wish without her fears impart, Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart, Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.