Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing OfficeJ. Walter, 1785 - 225 pages |
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... Mortal , by folly still beguil'd , Thou haft not yet outstrip'd the child Thou , who haft twenty winters feen , ( I hardly think thee past fifteen ) To ask if HAPPINESS can dwell With every dirty imp of hell ! ; Go to the school - boy ...
... Mortal , by folly still beguil'd , Thou haft not yet outstrip'd the child Thou , who haft twenty winters feen , ( I hardly think thee past fifteen ) To ask if HAPPINESS can dwell With every dirty imp of hell ! ; Go to the school - boy ...
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... mortal spares , Uncall'd , unheaded , unawares , Brought on his eightieth year . And now one night in mufing mood , As all alone he fate , Th ' unwelcome meffenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half kill'd with anger and surprise ...
... mortal spares , Uncall'd , unheaded , unawares , Brought on his eightieth year . And now one night in mufing mood , As all alone he fate , Th ' unwelcome meffenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half kill'd with anger and surprise ...
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... mortal offspring can attain the height Of envied life , tho ' only few poffefs Patrician treasures or imperial ftate ; Yet nature's care , to all her children juft , With richer treasures and an ampler state Endows at large whatever ...
... mortal offspring can attain the height Of envied life , tho ' only few poffefs Patrician treasures or imperial ftate ; Yet nature's care , to all her children juft , With richer treasures and an ampler state Endows at large whatever ...
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... mortal ! and unread by Thee ? The beam dim reafon fheds fhews wonders There ; What high contents ! Illuftrious faculties ! But the grand comment , which display at full Our human height scarce fever'd from divine , By heav'n compos'd ...
... mortal ! and unread by Thee ? The beam dim reafon fheds fhews wonders There ; What high contents ! Illuftrious faculties ! But the grand comment , which display at full Our human height scarce fever'd from divine , By heav'n compos'd ...
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... mortal strength prefume to foar so high ! Can mortal fight , fo oft bedim'd with tears , Such glory bear ! -for lo , the shadows fly K 3 From From nature's face ; Confufion disappears , And order charms IN VERSE AND PROSE . 197.
... mortal strength prefume to foar so high ! Can mortal fight , fo oft bedim'd with tears , Such glory bear ! -for lo , the shadows fly K 3 From From nature's face ; Confufion disappears , And order charms IN VERSE AND PROSE . 197.
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Page 142 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "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 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 142 - 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. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Page 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 142 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.