The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 48-49Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Whofe wifeft will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rife . Now when the first foul torrent of the brooks , Swell'd with the vernal rains , is ebb'd away , And , whitening , down their moffy - tinctur'd stream ...
... Whofe wifeft will has fix'd us in a state That must not yet to pure perfection rife . Now when the first foul torrent of the brooks , Swell'd with the vernal rains , is ebb'd away , And , whitening , down their moffy - tinctur'd stream ...
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... hills , And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brepoks ; The next , purfue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the river , in whofe ample wave 395 Their little Naiads love to sport at large . Juft Their 16 THOMSON'S POEMS .
... hills , And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brepoks ; The next , purfue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the river , in whofe ample wave 395 Their little Naiads love to sport at large . Juft Their 16 THOMSON'S POEMS .
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... whofe power , To life approaching , may perfume my lays With that fine oil , thofe aromatic gales , That inexhaustive flow continual round ? Yet , though fuccefslefs , will the toil delight . Come then , ye virgins and ye youths , whose ...
... whofe power , To life approaching , may perfume my lays With that fine oil , thofe aromatic gales , That inexhaustive flow continual round ? Yet , though fuccefslefs , will the toil delight . Come then , ye virgins and ye youths , whose ...
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... whofe lonely race Refign the setting fun to Indian worlds , The royal eagle draws his vigorous young , Strong - pounc'd , and ardent with paternal fire . * The fartheft of the western islands of Scotland . 750 755 Now Now fit to raise a ...
... whofe lonely race Refign the setting fun to Indian worlds , The royal eagle draws his vigorous young , Strong - pounc'd , and ardent with paternal fire . * The fartheft of the western islands of Scotland . 750 755 Now Now fit to raise a ...
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... whofe fair brow The bursting profpect fpreads immenfe around : And fnatch'd o'er hill and dale , and wood and lawn , And verdant field , and darkening heath between , 950 And villages embofom'd foft in trees , And fpiry towns by furging ...
... whofe fair brow The bursting profpect fpreads immenfe around : And fnatch'd o'er hill and dale , and wood and lawn , And verdant field , and darkening heath between , 950 And villages embofom'd foft in trees , And fpiry towns by furging ...
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Page 171 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 247 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Page 56 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Page 5 - Be gracious, Heaven! for now laborious man Has done his part. Ye fostering breezes, blow ! Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend ! And .temper all, thou world-reviving sun, Into the perfect year...
Page 239 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 41 - But one the lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray.
Page 30 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
Page 174 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full...
Page 145 - Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Page 239 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.