The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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Page 11
... keeps the mind for ever on the stretch , and which cannot be sus- pended without producing the double evil of wounded feelings and pecuniary loss . In one point the player has manifestly the advantage : among his auditors he has the ...
... keeps the mind for ever on the stretch , and which cannot be sus- pended without producing the double evil of wounded feelings and pecuniary loss . In one point the player has manifestly the advantage : among his auditors he has the ...
Page 19
... keep , among their rapid cars , A silence so profound ! A kind , a philosophic calm The cool creation wears ! And what Day drank of dewy balm , The gentle Night repairs . Behind their leafy curtains hid , The feather'd race how still ...
... keep , among their rapid cars , A silence so profound ! A kind , a philosophic calm The cool creation wears ! And what Day drank of dewy balm , The gentle Night repairs . Behind their leafy curtains hid , The feather'd race how still ...
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... keep her native sky . Fann'd by the light , the lenient breeze , My limbs refreshment find ; And moral rhapsodies , like these , Give vigour to the mind . A LANDSCAPE . Rura mihi et irrigui placeant in vallibus THE CONTEMPLATIST . 23.
... keep her native sky . Fann'd by the light , the lenient breeze , My limbs refreshment find ; And moral rhapsodies , like these , Give vigour to the mind . A LANDSCAPE . Rura mihi et irrigui placeant in vallibus THE CONTEMPLATIST . 23.
Page 24
... keep the waters cool . Shiver'd by a thunderstroke , From the mountain's misty ridge , O'er the brook a ruin'd oak , Near the farmhouse , forms a bridge . beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride 24 CUNNINGHAM . A Landscape.
... keep the waters cool . Shiver'd by a thunderstroke , From the mountain's misty ridge , O'er the brook a ruin'd oak , Near the farmhouse , forms a bridge . beam On her breast the sunny Glitters in meridian pride 24 CUNNINGHAM . A Landscape.
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... Keep , keep me in your view , If I'm once lost you'll never find me more . ' INSCRIPTION ON THE HOUSE AT MAVIS - BANK , NEAR EDINBURGH . SITUATED IN A GROVE . PARVA domus ! nemorosa quies ! Sis tu , quoque nostris Hospitium , laribus ...
... Keep , keep me in your view , If I'm once lost you'll never find me more . ' INSCRIPTION ON THE HOUSE AT MAVIS - BANK , NEAR EDINBURGH . SITUATED IN A GROVE . PARVA domus ! nemorosa quies ! Sis tu , quoque nostris Hospitium , laribus ...
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ACROSTIC ANACREON bard beauty behold birds bless'd bliss bloom bosom breast brow charms Corydon cried Cunningham Cupid Damon David Garrick dear delight Derry dress'd Dublin e'en Edinburgh eyes fair fame fancy fate favour favourite flies floweret fond Fortune genius gentle give glowing goddess Goldsmith grace green grove happy heart honour hopes Jove kind labour lord maid mighty mind mirth MISS CATL morning Muse ne'er never Newcastle night numbers o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ossian PALEMON pass'd passion pasty Phillis Philomel plain pleasure poem poet praise pride rage raptures reign rich rise rose rosy round sacred scene shade shepherd sighs sing skies smiles soft song sorrow soul spread STOOPS TO CONQUER SUNDERLAND swain sweet SWEET Auburn tell THEATRE thee There's thou toil Tuning sweet Twas venison vex'd village virgins wandering wanton Whilst Whitefoord wretch young youth