A Collection of Eighteenth Century VerseMargaret Lynn |
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... land . There thou may'st wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word ten thousand ways ; Or , if thou wouldst thy different talents suit , 210 Set thy own songs , and sing them to thy lute . " He said : - but his last ...
... land . There thou may'st wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word ten thousand ways ; Or , if thou wouldst thy different talents suit , 210 Set thy own songs , and sing them to thy lute . " He said : - but his last ...
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... had strung , And heaven had wanted one immortal song . But wild ambition loves to slide , not stand , And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land . Achitophel , grown weary to possess A lawful fame , ΙΟ Eighteenth Century Verse.
... had strung , And heaven had wanted one immortal song . But wild ambition loves to slide , not stand , And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land . Achitophel , grown weary to possess A lawful fame , ΙΟ Eighteenth Century Verse.
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... land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various , that he seemed to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions , always in the wrong , 543 Was everything by starts , and nothing long ; But Zimri II ...
... land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various , that he seemed to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions , always in the wrong , 543 Was everything by starts , and nothing long ; But Zimri II ...
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... land , thy matchless worth was known , Arms thy delight , and war was all thy own : Thy force infused the fainting Tyrians propped , And haughty Pharaoh found his fortune stopped . Oh ancient honour ! Oh unconquered hand , Whom foes ...
... land , thy matchless worth was known , Arms thy delight , and war was all thy own : Thy force infused the fainting Tyrians propped , And haughty Pharaoh found his fortune stopped . Oh ancient honour ! Oh unconquered hand , Whom foes ...
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... lands which never were his own . When first , the English crown he did obtain ; He did not send his Dutchmen home ... land ! He gave his Legions their eternal Station , And made them all freeholders of the nation ! 150 He cantoned out ...
... lands which never were his own . When first , the English crown he did obtain ; He did not send his Dutchmen home ... land ! He gave his Legions their eternal Station , And made them all freeholders of the nation ! 150 He cantoned out ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Balclutha bards beauty beneath bless Braes of Yarrow breast breath busk Carthon cease to sigh charms cheerful Clessámmor clouds crown dark death delight Dryden Dunciad ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear Fingal flowers frae grace grave Grongar Hill groves hand hear heart heaven heroic couplet hill honour Jenny king labour Lobbin Clout Lochaber look lyre maid maun mighty mind morning mourn Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er passions Pindaric plain pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's Popish Plot pow'r praise pride proud redemption draweth nigh rise Robin Gray round satire scene shade Shadwell shine sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul spread swain sweet tears thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse voice waves weep Whig wind Yarrow ye Britons youth ΙΟ
Popular passages
Page 85 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 322 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Page 327 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 254 - 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.
Page 255 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 244 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 326 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules...
Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 329 - The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Page 23 - The princes applaud with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.