The Babler: Containing a Careful Selection from Those Entertaining and Interesting Essays which Have Given the Public So Much Satisfaction Under that Title During a Course of Four Years, in Owen's Weekly Chronicle, Volume 1 |
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Page 242 - 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 240 - Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the fpoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury reprefs'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul.
Page 241 - Some village-Hampden, that with dauntlefs breaft The little Tyrant of his fields withftood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may reft, Some Cromwell guiltlefs of his country's blood.. Th' applaufe of lift'ning fenates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to defpife, To fcatter plenty o'er a fmiling land, And read their...
Page 242 - No farther feek his merits to difclofe, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repofe) The bofom of his Father and his God.
Page 21 - Death, or some worse misfortune, soon divide, The injur'd bridegroom from his guilty bride. If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.
Page 133 - Calls us from our sports away. What have we with day to do? Sons of Care 'twas made for you.
Page 240 - ... rage, And froze the genial current of the foul. Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blufh unfeen, And wafte its fweetnefs on the defert air.
Page 241 - Forbad to wade through flaughter to a throne, And fhut the gates of mercy on mankind, The ftruggling pangs of confcious truth to hide, To quench the blufhes of ingenuous fhame, Or heap the fhrine of Luxury and Pride With incenfe kindled at the Mufe's flame.
Page 82 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.
Page 134 - And let every accent, which virtue ihould hate, Parch quick on my infamous tongue; From my fight let the curfe be eternally driven^ Where my reafon fo fatally ftray'd; That no more I may offer an infult to heaven^ Or give man a caufe to upbraid/ *¥ke TEA-SPOON- Occafanett ly Dr. HiLt'/ frefirilifig a Tea...