Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry1805 - 1016 pages |
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... dread . But I , whofe hope thy Love fupports , ( How great that Love ! ) will tread thy courts My knees in lowlieft rev'rence bend , And tow'rd thy fhrine my hands extend . Do thou , juft God , my path prepare , And guard me from each ...
... dread . But I , whofe hope thy Love fupports , ( How great that Love ! ) will tread thy courts My knees in lowlieft rev'rence bend , And tow'rd thy fhrine my hands extend . Do thou , juft God , my path prepare , And guard me from each ...
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... dread , And fullenly obey . O Lord , how far extends thy name ! Where'er the fun can roll , That fun thy wonders fhall proclaim ; Thy deeds from pole to pole . 18. Pfalm the 24th paraphrafed . Pit FAR as the world can stretch its bounds ...
... dread , And fullenly obey . O Lord , how far extends thy name ! Where'er the fun can roll , That fun thy wonders fhall proclaim ; Thy deeds from pole to pole . 18. Pfalm the 24th paraphrafed . Pit FAR as the world can stretch its bounds ...
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... dread ; While the vaft fcenes of miracles impart A thrilling horror to the braveit heart . As through the world the gathering terror runs , Canaan thall thrink , and tremble for his fons : Till thou haft Jacob from his bondage brought ...
... dread ; While the vaft fcenes of miracles impart A thrilling horror to the braveit heart . As through the world the gathering terror runs , Canaan thall thrink , and tremble for his fons : Till thou haft Jacob from his bondage brought ...
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... dread abode , ( Then they alike in trembling hope repose ) The aim of his Father and his God . Death . Dr. Porteus , Bp . of London . Fas to the wretch whom every friend Norikes , I was rare , Death ! In fancy's fairy paths Let the ...
... dread abode , ( Then they alike in trembling hope repose ) The aim of his Father and his God . Death . Dr. Porteus , Bp . of London . Fas to the wretch whom every friend Norikes , I was rare , Death ! In fancy's fairy paths Let the ...
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... dread of future woe . Far be the ghaftly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her pureft cells Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair , Cherifh'd in earlieít youth , now paying back With tenfold ufury the pious care ...
... dread of future woe . Far be the ghaftly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her pureft cells Lead forth a goodly train of Virtues fair , Cherifh'd in earlieít youth , now paying back With tenfold ufury the pious care ...
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Page 242 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 65 - Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a letter'd heart; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade, Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade; Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man...
Page 14 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Page 464 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty : Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 202 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 499 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 203 - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, And left a lover's for a father's arms.
Page xi - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 479 - The slender Fir, that taper grows, The sturdy Oak with broad-spread Boughs...
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