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... Flame BC increases BC Summer - Ray || BC 106 beat ! BC . 102 LYTTELTON'S MS . CORRECTIONS . 1 ) These MS . emendations are made on an interleaved copy preserved in the library of Hagley Hall , Worcestershire first volume of the 1750 ...
... Flame BC increases BC Summer - Ray || BC 106 beat ! BC . 102 LYTTELTON'S MS . CORRECTIONS . 1 ) These MS . emendations are made on an interleaved copy preserved in the library of Hagley Hall , Worcestershire first volume of the 1750 ...
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... the dearer Object of it's Flame . D [ 285 ] And hates that Excellence it cannot reach . noble Wish , that never cloy'd Desire , [ 292 ] seeks , [ 291 ] That 12851 [ 290 ] 345 With endless Tumult . Whence resulting rise The selfish 20 ...
... the dearer Object of it's Flame . D [ 285 ] And hates that Excellence it cannot reach . noble Wish , that never cloy'd Desire , [ 292 ] seeks , [ 291 ] That 12851 [ 290 ] 345 With endless Tumult . Whence resulting rise The selfish 20 ...
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... flames , as on he walks Graceful , and crows Defiance . In the Pond , The finely - checker'd Duck before her Train ... Flame , And fierce Desire . Thro ' all his lusty Veins 735 The Bull , deep - scorcht , receives the raging Fire . Of ...
... flames , as on he walks Graceful , and crows Defiance . In the Pond , The finely - checker'd Duck before her Train ... Flame , And fierce Desire . Thro ' all his lusty Veins 735 The Bull , deep - scorcht , receives the raging Fire . Of ...
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... , near , 748 vast ] deep 752 Whip ; ] Thong ; exciting 760 Stream D 764 boiling ] foaming 769-773 omitted 749 Heifer , balmy- 758 informing ] B764 C818 D821 By this new Flame their Native Wrath sublim'd , 775 40 SPRING.
... , near , 748 vast ] deep 752 Whip ; ] Thong ; exciting 760 Stream D 764 boiling ] foaming 769-773 omitted 749 Heifer , balmy- 758 informing ] B764 C818 D821 By this new Flame their Native Wrath sublim'd , 775 40 SPRING.
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... Flame their native Wrath sublim'd , || They roam , amid the Fury of their Heart , || The far - resounding Waste in fiercer Bands , 777 transported , ] enraptur'd , 784 Their Frolicks play . sprightly Race 792 their ] the 796 That , 797 ...
... Flame their native Wrath sublim'd , || They roam , amid the Fury of their Heart , || The far - resounding Waste in fiercer Bands , 777 transported , ] enraptur'd , 784 Their Frolicks play . sprightly Race 792 their ] the 796 That , 797 ...
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Page 322 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 277 - Smooth'd up with snow; and, what is land, unknown, What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.
Page 247 - 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 277 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Page 23 - Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook, Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly ; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear. At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the death, With sullen plunge. At once he darts along, Deep-struck, and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode ; And flies...
Page 97 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round.
Page 319 - Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 48 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem, enliven'd by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul ; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence : for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
Page 271 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Page 324 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre.