Poems, Volume 2S.A. Oddy, 1814 - English poetry |
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Page 107
... grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring of an unwearied foot , That mounts the stile with ease , or leaps the fence ; That play ...
... grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring of an unwearied foot , That mounts the stile with ease , or leaps the fence ; That play ...
Page 109
... grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tower , Tall spire , from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear , Groves , heaths , and smoking villages , remote . Scenes must be beautiful , which ...
... grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tower , Tall spire , from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear , Groves , heaths , and smoking villages , remote . Scenes must be beautiful , which ...
Page 162
... grace to guilty men . Behold the picture ! -Is it like ? -Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip , And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry - hem ; and reading what they never wrote , Just fifteen minutes ...
... grace to guilty men . Behold the picture ! -Is it like ? -Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip , And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry - hem ; and reading what they never wrote , Just fifteen minutes ...
Page 169
... Grace , knowledge , comfort - an unfathom'd store ? How oft when Paul has serv'd us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preach'd ! Men that , if now alive , would sit content And humble learners of a Saviour's worth , Preach ...
... Grace , knowledge , comfort - an unfathom'd store ? How oft when Paul has serv'd us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preach'd ! Men that , if now alive , would sit content And humble learners of a Saviour's worth , Preach ...
Page 173
... potent is the spell , That none , decoy'd into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wise ; Fashionable Folly . There form connexions , but acquire no BOOK II . 75 THE TASK .
... potent is the spell , That none , decoy'd into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wise ; Fashionable Folly . There form connexions , but acquire no BOOK II . 75 THE TASK .
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