The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each |
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... inspire the whole : What each , what all supply , May court , may charm our eye , Thou ! only thou canst raise the meeting soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my ...
... inspire the whole : What each , what all supply , May court , may charm our eye , Thou ! only thou canst raise the meeting soul ! Of these let others ask , To aid some mighty task , I only seek to find thy temperate vale : Where oft my ...
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... inspire , Let deep'ning Sorrow's solemn accents roll . Rack'd by the hand of rude Disease Behold our fav'rite Poet lies ! While every object form'd to please Far from his couch ungrateful flies . The blissful Muse , whose favouring ...
... inspire , Let deep'ning Sorrow's solemn accents roll . Rack'd by the hand of rude Disease Behold our fav'rite Poet lies ! While every object form'd to please Far from his couch ungrateful flies . The blissful Muse , whose favouring ...
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... inspire . With merriment , and song , and timbrels clear , A troop of dames from myrtle bowers advance ; The little warriors doff the targe and spear , And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance . They meet , they dart away , they ...
... inspire . With merriment , and song , and timbrels clear , A troop of dames from myrtle bowers advance ; The little warriors doff the targe and spear , And loud enlivening strains provoke the dance . They meet , they dart away , they ...
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... Inspire my dreams , and my wild wanderings guide : Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth , For well I know , wherever ye reside There harmony , and peace , and innocence abide . Ah me ! neglected on the lonesome plain , As yet ...
... Inspire my dreams , and my wild wanderings guide : Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth , For well I know , wherever ye reside There harmony , and peace , and innocence abide . Ah me ! neglected on the lonesome plain , As yet ...
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... inspire , and love of human- kind BOOK II . Of chance or change O let not man complain , Else shall he never never cease to wail ; For , from the imperial dome , to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale , All feel th ...
... inspire , and love of human- kind BOOK II . Of chance or change O let not man complain , Else shall he never never cease to wail ; For , from the imperial dome , to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale , All feel th ...
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adorn Amyntas arms balmy bard beauty blast blest bloom blooming band bosom bower breast breathe Bring Daphnis brow charms cliffs clouds Codrus Corydon Damætas Damastas dark deep delight divine dread eclogue Eton College fair fame Fancy Fancy's fate fire flame flocks flowers forlorn gale gentle glory glow grace grove hail heart Heaven hope Julius Cæsar lofty lonely Lycidas lyre maid Menalcas mighty mind Mopsus mountains mourn Muse Nature's ne'er numbers nymphs o'er peace Pindaric plain poem pomp pride promised song racter rage rapture roam roll round sacred scene shade shepherd shine sing skies smile soft song soothe soul spring storm strain stream sublime sung swain sweet tear thee thine thou thought Thyrsis Tityrus toil truth Twas vale verse virtue Virtue's voice warbling wave WESTMINSTER ABBEY wild winds wings youth
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Page 110 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 107 - ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 82 - The Summer Friend, the flatt'ring Foe, By vain Prosperity receiv'd, To her they vow their truth, and are again believ'd. . Wisdom, in sable garb array'd Immers'd in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity, the general friend ; With Justice, to herself severe ; And Pity, dropping soft the sadly pleasing tear.
Page 78 - A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 78 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave, With pliant arm, thy glassy wave...
Page 108 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands...
Page 93 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 108 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 109 - Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.