The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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Page 32
... fire . What reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verse to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I solicitous to know . My aims are right . Without espousing the cause of any party , I have endeavoured to ...
... fire . What reception a poem may find , which has neither abuse , party , nor blank verse to support it , I cannot tell , nor am I solicitous to know . My aims are right . Without espousing the cause of any party , I have endeavoured to ...
Page 34
... fire ; Blest that abode , where want and pain repair , And every stranger finds a ready chair ; Blest be those feasts , with simple plenty crowned , Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail , Or ...
... fire ; Blest that abode , where want and pain repair , And every stranger finds a ready chair ; Blest be those feasts , with simple plenty crowned , Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail , Or ...
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... fire , and round surveys His children's looks , that brighten at the blaze ; While his loved partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too some pilgrim , thither led , With many a tale ...
... fire , and round surveys His children's looks , that brighten at the blaze ; While his loved partner , boastful of her hoard , Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too some pilgrim , thither led , With many a tale ...
Page 42
... fire , Unquenched by want , unfanned by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures , or , if raptures cheer On some high festival of once a year , In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire , Till , buried in debauch , the bliss expire . But ...
... fire , Unquenched by want , unfanned by strong desire ; Unfit for raptures , or , if raptures cheer On some high festival of once a year , In wild excess the vulgar breast takes fire , Till , buried in debauch , the bliss expire . But ...
Page 47
... fire the wheels . Nor this the worst . As nature's ties decay , As duty , love , and honour fail to sway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather strength and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to ...
... fire the wheels . Nor this the worst . As nature's ties decay , As duty , love , and honour fail to sway , Fictitious bonds , the bonds of wealth and law , Still gather strength and force unwilling awe . Hence all obedience bows to ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth