Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 4Harrison and Company, 1782 - English poetry |
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... heav'n and earth , and roll'd around the year . So reason in this brutal foul began : Love made him firft fufpect he was a man ; Love made him doubt his broad barbarian found ; By Love his want of words and wit he found ; That fenfe of ...
... heav'n and earth , and roll'd around the year . So reason in this brutal foul began : Love made him firft fufpect he was a man ; Love made him doubt his broad barbarian found ; By Love his want of words and wit he found ; That fenfe of ...
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... heav'n to deepest hell , Than ftood the lover of his love poffefs'd , Now curs'd the more , the more he had been bless'd ; More anxious for her danger than his own , Death he defies , but would be loft alone , } Sad Sad Iphigene , to ...
... heav'n to deepest hell , Than ftood the lover of his love poffefs'd , Now curs'd the more , the more he had been bless'd ; More anxious for her danger than his own , Death he defies , but would be loft alone , } Sad Sad Iphigene , to ...
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... Heav'n's defpite , Invade , and violate another's right : The pow'rs incens'd , awhile deferr'd his pain , And made him mafter of his vows in vain ; But foon they punish'd his presumptuous pride , That for his daring enterprize she dy'd ...
... Heav'n's defpite , Invade , and violate another's right : The pow'rs incens'd , awhile deferr'd his pain , And made him mafter of his vows in vain ; But foon they punish'd his presumptuous pride , That for his daring enterprize she dy'd ...
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... Heav'n fometimes may blefs An impious act with undeferv'd fuccefs ; The great , it seems , are privileg'd , alone , To punish all injuftice but their own . But here I ftop , not daring to proceed , Yet blush to flatter an unrighteous ...
... Heav'n fometimes may blefs An impious act with undeferv'd fuccefs ; The great , it seems , are privileg'd , alone , To punish all injuftice but their own . But here I ftop , not daring to proceed , Yet blush to flatter an unrighteous ...
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... Heav'n be neuter , and the fword decide ; The spousals are prepar'd , already play The minstrels , and provoke the tardy day : By this the brides are wak'd , their grooms are drefs'd , All Rhodes is fummon'd to the nuptial feaft ; All ...
... Heav'n be neuter , and the fword decide ; The spousals are prepar'd , already play The minstrels , and provoke the tardy day : By this the brides are wak'd , their grooms are drefs'd , All Rhodes is fummon'd to the nuptial feaft ; All ...
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Page 314 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 462 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
Page 404 - Be smooth, ye rocks! ye rapid floods, give way! The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Page 42 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 316 - Though restless still themselves, a lulling murmur made. Joined to the prattle of the purling rills, Were heard the lowing herds along the vale, And flocks loud-bleating from the distant hills, And vacant shepherds piping in the dale : And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves...
Page 210 - Sir Balaam now, he lives like other folks, He takes his chirping pint, and cracks his jokes. " Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word ; And lo ! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
Page 208 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Page 208 - Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 201 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 334 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.