Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts : Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining : the Whole Being a Collection of the Best Pieces in Our Language |
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... fair reader will find the mufe has been follicitous to guide her , not with the allurements of a fyren , but the integrity of a friend . better fettled the bounds of duty , In the entertaining part my greatest difficulty was what to ...
... fair reader will find the mufe has been follicitous to guide her , not with the allurements of a fyren , but the integrity of a friend . better fettled the bounds of duty , In the entertaining part my greatest difficulty was what to ...
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... fair vicegerent - light within , Afferts its author , and restores the scene ! Points out the beauty of the govern'd plan , " And vindicates the ways of God to man . " Then facred Mufe , by the vast prospect fir'd , From heav'n ...
... fair vicegerent - light within , Afferts its author , and restores the scene ! Points out the beauty of the govern'd plan , " And vindicates the ways of God to man . " Then facred Mufe , by the vast prospect fir'd , From heav'n ...
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... fair according plan , All fmiles benevolent and good to man . Plac'd in this narrow clouded spot below , Darkly we fee around , and darkly know ! Religion lends the falutary beam , That guides our reafon thro ' the dubious gleam ; Till ...
... fair according plan , All fmiles benevolent and good to man . Plac'd in this narrow clouded spot below , Darkly we fee around , and darkly know ! Religion lends the falutary beam , That guides our reafon thro ' the dubious gleam ; Till ...
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... fair ! furpriz'd th ' angelic eyes , And fov'reign Wisdom faw that all was wife ! Him , fole almighty Nature's book difplays , Diftin & t the page , and legible the rays ! B 4 Let Let the wild fceptic his attention throw , To the YOUNG ...
... fair ! furpriz'd th ' angelic eyes , And fov'reign Wisdom faw that all was wife ! Him , fole almighty Nature's book difplays , Diftin & t the page , and legible the rays ! B 4 Let Let the wild fceptic his attention throw , To the YOUNG ...
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... fair Goddefs ! paint thee but thy own ! What tho ' in nature's univeríal store , Appear the wonders of almighty pow'r ! Pow'r unattended , terror would inspire , Aw'd muft we gaze , and comfortless admire . But when fair Wisdom joins in ...
... fair Goddefs ! paint thee but thy own ! What tho ' in nature's univeríal store , Appear the wonders of almighty pow'r ! Pow'r unattended , terror would inspire , Aw'd muft we gaze , and comfortless admire . But when fair Wisdom joins in ...
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Page 34 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks! ye rapid floods, give way! The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Page 227 - GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Page 39 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 39 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 33 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive — a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a Branch arise Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: Th' Ethereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 31 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 63 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Page 64 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 30 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 42 - Lead it through various scenes of life and death, And from each scene the noblest truths inspire.