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... tyrant , of the world . The first fresh dawn then wak'd the gladden'd race Of uncorrupted Man , nor blush'd to see The sluggard sleep beneath its sacred beam : For their light slumbers gently fum'd away ; And up they rose as vigorous as ...
... tyrant , of the world . The first fresh dawn then wak'd the gladden'd race Of uncorrupted Man , nor blush'd to see The sluggard sleep beneath its sacred beam : For their light slumbers gently fum'd away ; And up they rose as vigorous as ...
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... tyrant man Inhuman caught , and in the narrow cage From liberty confin'd , and boundless air . Dull are the pretty slaves , their plumage dull , Ragged , and all its brightening lustre lost ; Nor is that sprightly wildness in their ...
... tyrant man Inhuman caught , and in the narrow cage From liberty confin'd , and boundless air . Dull are the pretty slaves , their plumage dull , Ragged , and all its brightening lustre lost ; Nor is that sprightly wildness in their ...
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... tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves , meanly possess'd Of a mere lifeless , violated form : While those whom love cements in holy faith , And equal transport , free as Nature live , 1110 1120 1130 Disdaining fear ...
... tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves , meanly possess'd Of a mere lifeless , violated form : While those whom love cements in holy faith , And equal transport , free as Nature live , 1110 1120 1130 Disdaining fear ...
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... tyrant Heat , dispreading through the sky , With rapid sway , his burning influence darts On man , and beast , and herb , and tepid stream . Who can unpitying see the flowery race , Shed by the morn , their new - flush'd bloom resign ...
... tyrant Heat , dispreading through the sky , With rapid sway , his burning influence darts On man , and beast , and herb , and tepid stream . Who can unpitying see the flowery race , Shed by the morn , their new - flush'd bloom resign ...
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... tyrant fang , escaped , The wretch half wishes for his bonds again ; While , uproar all , the wilderness resounds , From Atlas eastward to the frighted Nile . Unhappy he who , from the first of joys , Society , cut off , is left alone ...
... tyrant fang , escaped , The wretch half wishes for his bonds again ; While , uproar all , the wilderness resounds , From Atlas eastward to the frighted Nile . Unhappy he who , from the first of joys , Society , cut off , is left alone ...
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amid arts astonish'd Athens bade beam behold beneath blaze bliss bloom breast breath bright Britons brow calm CASTLE OF INDOLENCE charms clouds dark deep delight dreadful earth ethereal exalted fair fame fierce fire flame flood Formian gale genius gloom glory grace Greece groves hand happy heart Heaven Hence hills honour Idless Isthmian games join'd kings labour land Liberty light luxurious mankind matchless mighty mind mingled mix'd mountains Muse Musidora Nature Nature's night nought o'er passions peace plain poison'd pomp pour'd pride race rage rapture reign rise Rome round roused sacred Sarmatia Savage reigns scene Scythian seas shade shine shore sing sloth smile soft song sons soul spirit spread storm stream sunk swain sweet swell'd swelling tempest tender thee thou toil train trembling tyrant vale vex'd virtue waste wave whence wild winds wing wretch
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Page 306 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve. Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 35 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 143 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 167 - ... impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whose sun exalts,...
Page 141 - As thus the snows arise, and foul and fierce All winter drives along the darkened air, In his own loose-revolving fields the swain Disastered stands ; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest hid Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray ; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home ; the thoughts of home Rush...
Page 166 - But wandering oft with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 14 - Of pendent trees the monarch of the brook, Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly, And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear. At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the death With sullen plunge. At once he darts along, Deep-struck, and runs out all the lengthened line ; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, The caverned bank, his old secure abode; And flies...
Page 167 - Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave, to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, eo As home he goes beneath the joyous moon.
Page 128 - Oh ! knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he, who far from public rage, Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life...
Page 281 - Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.