The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins, and T. Warton: With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes |
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... towers are seen , In distant view along the level green , While evening dews enrich the glittering glade , And the tall forests cast a longer shade , What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at ...
... towers are seen , In distant view along the level green , While evening dews enrich the glittering glade , And the tall forests cast a longer shade , What time ' tis sweet o'er fields of rice to stray , Or scent the breathing maize at ...
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... tower , To thee we build a roseate bower , 20 20 Thou , thou shalt rule our queen , and share our monarch's throne ! ODE TO LIBERTY . STROPHE . WHO shall awake the Spartan fife , And call in solemn sounds to life , The youths , whose ...
... tower , To thee we build a roseate bower , 20 20 Thou , thou shalt rule our queen , and share our monarch's throne ! ODE TO LIBERTY . STROPHE . WHO shall awake the Spartan fife , And call in solemn sounds to life , The youths , whose ...
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... towers when Malice rears her crest , Shall all my sons in silence idly rest ? Still sing , O Cam , your favourite Freedom's cause ; Still boast of Freedom , while you break her laws : To Power your songs of gratulation pay , To Courts ...
... towers when Malice rears her crest , Shall all my sons in silence idly rest ? Still sing , O Cam , your favourite Freedom's cause ; Still boast of Freedom , while you break her laws : To Power your songs of gratulation pay , To Courts ...
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... towers that wear the mossy vest of time ; Ye massy piles of old munificence , At once the pride of learning and defence ; Ye cloisters pale , that , lengthening to the sight , To contemplation , step by step , invite ; Ye high - arch'd ...
... towers that wear the mossy vest of time ; Ye massy piles of old munificence , At once the pride of learning and defence ; Ye cloisters pale , that , lengthening to the sight , To contemplation , step by step , invite ; Ye high - arch'd ...
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... towers . ' Twas Alfred first , with letters and with laws , Adorn'd , as he advanced , his country's cause : He bade relent the Briton's stubborn soul , And soothed to soft society's control A rough untutor'd age . With raptured eye ...
... towers . ' Twas Alfred first , with letters and with laws , Adorn'd , as he advanced , his country's cause : He bade relent the Briton's stubborn soul , And soothed to soft society's control A rough untutor'd age . With raptured eye ...
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Page 18 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind, These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 26 - And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade, Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame ; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride ; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so...
Page xxv - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 19 - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 21 - No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...
Page 120 - Tempe's vale, her native maids, Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing, While, as his flying fingers kiss'd the strings, Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound : And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Page 20 - Yet he was kind; or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 17 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 120 - Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 16 - Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride.