Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... wealth , Let this great truth be present night and day ; But most be present , if we preach or pray . Look round our world ; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above . See plastic nature working to this end , The ...
... wealth , Let this great truth be present night and day ; But most be present , if we preach or pray . Look round our world ; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above . See plastic nature working to this end , The ...
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... Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ants ' republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , 185 And anarchy without confusion know ; And these for ever , tho ' a monarch reign ON MAN . 31.
... Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ants ' republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , 185 And anarchy without confusion know ; And these for ever , tho ' a monarch reign ON MAN . 31.
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... wealth ill fated ! which no act of fame 285 290 295 E'er taught to shine , or sanctify'd from shame ! 300 What greater bliss attends their close of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , The trophy'd arches , story'd halls ...
... wealth ill fated ! which no act of fame 285 290 295 E'er taught to shine , or sanctify'd from shame ! 300 What greater bliss attends their close of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , The trophy'd arches , story'd halls ...
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... wealth e'er gave , Await alike th ' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead - but to the grave . Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault , If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn aisle and ...
... wealth e'er gave , Await alike th ' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead - but to the grave . Nor you , ye proud , impute to these the fault , If mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise , Where thro ' the long - drawn aisle and ...
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... wealth and splendor crown'd ; Ye fields , where summer spreads profusion round , Ye lakes , whose vessels catch the busy gale , Ye bending swains , that dress the flow'ry vale , For me your tributary stores combine ; Creation's heir ...
... wealth and splendor crown'd ; Ye fields , where summer spreads profusion round , Ye lakes , whose vessels catch the busy gale , Ye bending swains , that dress the flow'ry vale , For me your tributary stores combine ; Creation's heir ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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Page 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 18 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Page 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...