The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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Page 47
... weeps unknown : Till time may come , when , stript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toiled , and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level ...
... weeps unknown : Till time may come , when , stript of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toiled , and poets wrote for fame , One sink of level ...
Page 53
... More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name ; A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame , But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound , The 53 THE HERMIT .
... More trifling still than they . " And what is friendship but a name ; A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame , But leaves the wretch to weep ? " And love is still an emptier sound , The 53 THE HERMIT .
Page 81
... weep , Explore the mine , or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state , To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves to meet his latter end , Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to ...
... weep , Explore the mine , or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state , To spurn imploring famine from the gate : But on he moves to meet his latter end , Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to ...
Page 83
... weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train , The sad historian of the pensive plain . Near yonder copse , where once the garden smiled , And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There , where a few torn shrubs the ...
... weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train , The sad historian of the pensive plain . Near yonder copse , where once the garden smiled , And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There , where a few torn shrubs the ...
Page 93
... weep . The good old sire the first prepared to go To new - found worlds , and wept for others ' woe ; But for himself , in conscious virtue brave , He only wished for worlds beyond the grave . T. Stothard RA . W. Greatbach . His lovely ...
... weep . The good old sire the first prepared to go To new - found worlds , and wept for others ' woe ; But for himself , in conscious virtue brave , He only wished for worlds beyond the grave . T. Stothard RA . W. Greatbach . His lovely ...
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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