Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 Seiten |
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... avarice , and cruelty . The poem opens with so- lemnity . O ! guardian genius of this facred wave , Q ! fave thy fons , if thine the power to fave ! The The following image was a particular favourite with the author 1xx THE LIFE OF.
... avarice , and cruelty . The poem opens with so- lemnity . O ! guardian genius of this facred wave , Q ! fave thy fons , if thine the power to fave ! The The following image was a particular favourite with the author 1xx THE LIFE OF.
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... wave , Like profuse kings , refumes the wealth he gave . No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes , or mock the plowman's toil ; But God - like his unwearied bounty flows , First loves to do , then loves the good he does ...
... wave , Like profuse kings , refumes the wealth he gave . No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes , or mock the plowman's toil ; But God - like his unwearied bounty flows , First loves to do , then loves the good he does ...
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... wave ; The blue transparent Vandalis appears The Lee indeed is evidently defigned for a person , and the Mole and Darent may also be viewed in the same light : The gulphy Lee his fedgy treffes rears , And fullen Mole that hides his ...
... wave ; The blue transparent Vandalis appears The Lee indeed is evidently defigned for a person , and the Mole and Darent may also be viewed in the same light : The gulphy Lee his fedgy treffes rears , And fullen Mole that hides his ...
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... Wave fucceeding wave they go ; A various journey to the deep , Like human life to endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's vefture wrought , To inftruct our wand'ring thought ; Thus fhe dreffes green and gay , To difperfe our cares away . Among ...
... Wave fucceeding wave they go ; A various journey to the deep , Like human life to endless sleep ! Thus is Nature's vefture wrought , To inftruct our wand'ring thought ; Thus fhe dreffes green and gay , To difperfe our cares away . Among ...
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... wave Mournfully rolls . Yet once again my muse , Yet once again , and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftless theme , imperial Rome . BELLAY'S RUINS of ROME , mentioned page 12 , of thefe ESSAYS , is a work of fome merit , but ...
... wave Mournfully rolls . Yet once again my muse , Yet once again , and foar a loftier flight ; Lo the refiftless theme , imperial Rome . BELLAY'S RUINS of ROME , mentioned page 12 , of thefe ESSAYS , is a work of fome merit , but ...
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Seite 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Seite 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Seite 192 - 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.
Seite 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Seite 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Seite 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Seite 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Seite 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Seite 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th