Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poemsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... whole can now , with propriety , be only inscribed to you . It will also throw a light upon many parts of it , when the reader understands , that it is addressed to a man , who , despising Fame and Fortune , has retired early to ...
... whole can now , with propriety , be only inscribed to you . It will also throw a light upon many parts of it , when the reader understands , that it is addressed to a man , who , despising Fame and Fortune , has retired early to ...
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... whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , choak'd with sedges , works its weedy way ; Along thy glades , a solitary guest , The hollow - sounding bittern guards its ...
... whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , choak'd with sedges , works its weedy way ; Along thy glades , a solitary guest , The hollow - sounding bittern guards its ...
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... whole , the author returns his thanks to the public for the favourable reception which the Good - Natur'd Man has met with : and to Mr. Colman in particular , for his kindness to it . It may not also be improper to assure any who shall ...
... whole , the author returns his thanks to the public for the favourable reception which the Good - Natur'd Man has met with : and to Mr. Colman in particular , for his kindness to it . It may not also be improper to assure any who shall ...
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... whole collection . HONEYWOOD . Excuse me , ladies , if some uneasiness from friend- ship makes me unfit to share in this good humour : I know you'll pardon me . Mrs. CROAKER . I vow he seems as melancholy as if he had taken a dose of my ...
... whole collection . HONEYWOOD . Excuse me , ladies , if some uneasiness from friend- ship makes me unfit to share in this good humour : I know you'll pardon me . Mrs. CROAKER . I vow he seems as melancholy as if he had taken a dose of my ...
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... whole morning at her hair- dresser , when all the fault was her face . HONEYWOOD . And yet , I'll engage , has carried that face at last to a very good market . This good - natur'd town , Madam , has husbands , like spectacles , to fit ...
... whole morning at her hair- dresser , when all the fault was her face . HONEYWOOD . And yet , I'll engage , has carried that face at last to a very good market . This good - natur'd town , Madam , has husbands , like spectacles , to fit ...
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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...