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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... the honour of liberty , that while the reft of the known world was over- run with the arbitrary government of fingle perfons , arts and sciences took their rife , and flourished only in XXIL YOUTH OF ENGLAND . in thofe few small ...
... the honour of liberty , that while the reft of the known world was over- run with the arbitrary government of fingle perfons , arts and sciences took their rife , and flourished only in XXIL YOUTH OF ENGLAND . in thofe few small ...
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... defamatory art ; Thy foul afferts her native skies , Nor asks detraction's wings to rife : In foreign spoils let others shine , Intrinfic excellence is thine . The The bird , in peacock's plumes who shone , Cou'd 2 MISCELLANIES.
... defamatory art ; Thy foul afferts her native skies , Nor asks detraction's wings to rife : In foreign spoils let others shine , Intrinfic excellence is thine . The The bird , in peacock's plumes who shone , Cou'd 2 MISCELLANIES.
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... rife the ftorms of life ; If they grow mutinous and rave , They are thy mafters , thou their flave . Regard the world with cautious eye , Nor raise your expectation high . See that the balanc'd fcales be fuch , You neither fear , nor ...
... rife the ftorms of life ; If they grow mutinous and rave , They are thy mafters , thou their flave . Regard the world with cautious eye , Nor raise your expectation high . See that the balanc'd fcales be fuch , You neither fear , nor ...
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... rife ; 7 If soft the motions of thy foul , And a calm confcience crowns the whole ; Add but a friend to all this store , You can't in reafon wifh for more : And if kind Heav'n this comfort brings , ' Tis more than Heav'n bestows on ...
... rife ; 7 If soft the motions of thy foul , And a calm confcience crowns the whole ; Add but a friend to all this store , You can't in reafon wifh for more : And if kind Heav'n this comfort brings , ' Tis more than Heav'n bestows on ...
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... hazardous to pass : Courtiers and statesmen led the way ; The faithlefs paths their steps betray ; This moment feen aloft to foar , The next to fall and rife no more . " Twas ' Twas here AMBITION kept her court , A phantom 22 MISCELLANIES.
... hazardous to pass : Courtiers and statesmen led the way ; The faithlefs paths their steps betray ; This moment feen aloft to foar , The next to fall and rife no more . " Twas ' Twas here AMBITION kept her court , A phantom 22 MISCELLANIES.
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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.