The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... song , a story , or an occasional game at cards , and so whiled away his idle hours . He was strongly urged by his friends to take orders ; yielded reluctantly , and applied to the bishop , but was rejected - it is said for having ...
... song , a story , or an occasional game at cards , and so whiled away his idle hours . He was strongly urged by his friends to take orders ; yielded reluctantly , and applied to the bishop , but was rejected - it is said for having ...
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... , why the lute unstrung ? Or why those harps on yonder willows hung ? Come , take the lyre , and pour the strain along ; The day demands it ; sing us Sion's song . Dismiss your griefs , and join our warbling choir ; ΙΟΙ THE CAPTIVITY .
... , why the lute unstrung ? Or why those harps on yonder willows hung ? Come , take the lyre , and pour the strain along ; The day demands it ; sing us Sion's song . Dismiss your griefs , and join our warbling choir ; ΙΟΙ THE CAPTIVITY .
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... songs of Sion to the wind , And hail the benefactor of mankind : He comes , pursuant to divine decree , To chain the strong , and set the captive free . CHORUS OF YOUTHS . Rise to transports past expressing , Sweeter by remembered woes ...
... songs of Sion to the wind , And hail the benefactor of mankind : He comes , pursuant to divine decree , To chain the strong , and set the captive free . CHORUS OF YOUTHS . Rise to transports past expressing , Sweeter by remembered woes ...
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... SONG . BY A MAN . Virtue , on herself relying , Every passion hushed to rest , Loses every pain of dying , In the hopes of being blest . Every added pang she suffers , Some increasing good bestows , And every shock that malice offers ...
... SONG . BY A MAN . Virtue , on herself relying , Every passion hushed to rest , Loses every pain of dying , In the hopes of being blest . Every added pang she suffers , Some increasing good bestows , And every shock that malice offers ...
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... SONG . BY A MAN . When vice my dart and scythe supply , How great a king of terrors I ! If folly , fraud , your hearts engage , Tremble , ye mortals , at my rage ! Fall , round me fall , ye little things , Ye statesmen , warriors ...
... SONG . BY A MAN . When vice my dart and scythe supply , How great a king of terrors I ! If folly , fraud , your hearts engage , Tremble , ye mortals , at my rage ! Fall , round me fall , ye little things , Ye statesmen , warriors ...
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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