Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry1805 - 1016 pages |
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... thought , and ask the grateful | Cotten thou partner of my life and name , faced source , whom Nature form'd the From low purfuits the ductile mind to fave , Crceds. There from thofe ills a fafe retreat behold , Which young might ...
... thought , and ask the grateful | Cotten thou partner of my life and name , faced source , whom Nature form'd the From low purfuits the ductile mind to fave , Crceds. There from thofe ills a fafe retreat behold , Which young might ...
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... thought , The impious thought ! God never made a creature But what was good . He made a living Soul ; The wretched Mortal was the work of Man . Forth from his Maker's hands he fprung to life , Fresh with immortal bloom ; no pain he knew ...
... thought , The impious thought ! God never made a creature But what was good . He made a living Soul ; The wretched Mortal was the work of Man . Forth from his Maker's hands he fprung to life , Fresh with immortal bloom ; no pain he knew ...
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... thought impure Banish ; each low idea raise , refine , Enlarge , and fanctify ; -fo fhall the Mufe Wetan mortal nerves was ftrung , t ' o'er - Above the ftars afpire , and aim to praife [ throw Her God on earth as he is prais'd in ...
... thought impure Banish ; each low idea raise , refine , Enlarge , and fanctify ; -fo fhall the Mufe Wetan mortal nerves was ftrung , t ' o'er - Above the ftars afpire , and aim to praife [ throw Her God on earth as he is prais'd in ...
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... thought Receive a gleam of joy ? From these secure Lives et tutor'd Indigence at ease ? And as to ten along the vale of life , Camper , thelter'd from the stormy blaft The Ambition's plame : that wrecks This wide expanded All from pole ...
... thought Receive a gleam of joy ? From these secure Lives et tutor'd Indigence at ease ? And as to ten along the vale of life , Camper , thelter'd from the stormy blaft The Ambition's plame : that wrecks This wide expanded All from pole ...
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... thought a thousand changes gains , And actions vary as the will ordains ; But fhould two Beings , equally fupreme , Divided pow'r and parted empire claim ; How foon would univerfal order cease ! How foon would difcord harmony displace ...
... thought a thousand changes gains , And actions vary as the will ordains ; But fhould two Beings , equally fupreme , Divided pow'r and parted empire claim ; How foon would univerfal order cease ! How foon would difcord harmony displace ...
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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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