Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
... perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts , which you decline giving with your own . But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland , the whole can now , with propriety , be only ...
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... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , Though patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind ; As different good , by art or nature given , To different ...
... perhaps , if countries we compare , And estimate the blessings which they share , Though patriots flatter , still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind ; As different good , by art or nature given , To different ...
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... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests , and through dangerous ways ; Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
... perhaps , as there some pilgrim strays Through tangled forests , and through dangerous ways ; Where beasts with man divided empire claim , And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim ; There , while above the giddy tempest flies , And ...
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... perhaps , in village plenty blest , Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn , Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her ...
... perhaps , in village plenty blest , Has wept at tales of innocence distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn , Now lost to all ; her friends , her virtue fled , Near her ...
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... Perhaps , to vulgar eyes , bestrides the state ; Yet , when he deigns his real shape t ' assume , He turns old woman , and bestrides a broom . Yon patriot , too , who presses on your sight , And seems to every gazer , all in white , If ...
... Perhaps , to vulgar eyes , bestrides the state ; Yet , when he deigns his real shape t ' assume , He turns old woman , and bestrides a broom . Yon patriot , too , who presses on your sight , And seems to every gazer , all in white , If ...
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Page 113 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 73 - Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Page 70 - To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested...
Page 45 - That first excites desire, and then supplies. Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, \ Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame : Their level life is but a...
Page 65 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Page 66 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 49 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 71 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells...
Page 38 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his fo6d, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Page 107 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade f Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...