Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee & Company, 1860 |
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... Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain : Thames heard the numbers as he flow'd along ...
... Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain : Thames heard the numbers as he flow'd along ...
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... Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things listen , while thy muse complains ! Such silence waits on Philomela's strains , In some still evening , when the ...
... Behold us kindly , who your name implore , Daphne , our goddess , and our grief no more ! LYCIDAS . How all things listen , while thy muse complains ! Such silence waits on Philomela's strains , In some still evening , when the ...
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... behold a branch arise , Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies : 10 The ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move , And on its top descends the mystic dove . Ye heavens ! 2 from high the dewy nectar pour , And in soft ...
... behold a branch arise , Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies : 10 The ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move , And on its top descends the mystic dove . Ye heavens ! 2 from high the dewy nectar pour , And in soft ...
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... behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ry , And on the sightless eye - ball pour the day . " Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm the unfolding car : The dumb shall sing , the lame his ...
... behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ry , And on the sightless eye - ball pour the day . " Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm the unfolding car : The dumb shall sing , the lame his ...
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... Behold ! the ascending villas on my side , Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide Behold ! Augusta's glittering spires increase , And temples rise , the beauteous works of ice . I see , I see , where two fair cities bend Their ample ...
... Behold ! the ascending villas on my side , Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide Behold ! Augusta's glittering spires increase , And temples rise , the beauteous works of ice . I see , I see , where two fair cities bend Their ample ...
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Page 269 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 74 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 269 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 84 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Page 110 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head.
Page 90 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 278 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 99 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Page 81 - Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 102 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire.