Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 4Harrison and Company, 1782 - English poetry |
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... Wealth , power , and folly , leagues , To aid each black defign her policy conceives : Then , tempter - like , she blames The rage herself inflames ; And , as her intereft prompts , the dup'd allies fhe leaves ? Or , rather , Goddess ...
... Wealth , power , and folly , leagues , To aid each black defign her policy conceives : Then , tempter - like , she blames The rage herself inflames ; And , as her intereft prompts , the dup'd allies fhe leaves ? Or , rather , Goddess ...
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... wealthy , with a num'rous iffue blefs'd . But as no gift of Fortune is fincere , Was only wanting in a worthy heir : His eldest born , a goodly youth to view , Excell'd the reft in fhape , and outward fhew ; Fair , tall , his limbs with ...
... wealthy , with a num'rous iffue blefs'd . But as no gift of Fortune is fincere , Was only wanting in a worthy heir : His eldest born , a goodly youth to view , Excell'd the reft in fhape , and outward fhew ; Fair , tall , his limbs with ...
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... wealth to foreign parts convey'd ; Some troops disbanded , and the reft unpaid . Rhodes is the fov'reign of the fea no more ; Their fhips unrigg'd , and spent their naval ftore , They neither could defend , nor can purfue , But grind ...
... wealth to foreign parts convey'd ; Some troops disbanded , and the reft unpaid . Rhodes is the fov'reign of the fea no more ; Their fhips unrigg'd , and spent their naval ftore , They neither could defend , nor can purfue , But grind ...
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... wealth and honours loft their wonted charms ? And does ambition yield to Cupid's arms ? Is your whole frame diffolv'd , by love ingrofs'd , To ftudy , intereft , and preferment loft ? From hence a real paffion you may prove , For if ...
... wealth and honours loft their wonted charms ? And does ambition yield to Cupid's arms ? Is your whole frame diffolv'd , by love ingrofs'd , To ftudy , intereft , and preferment loft ? From hence a real paffion you may prove , For if ...
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... wealth by counted gold ; Ere kings or priests their tyranny began , ' Or man was vaffal'd to his fellow - man . ' O halcyon ftate ! when man began to live ! A bleffing worthy of a God to give ! Who , on th ' unspotted mind his Maker ...
... wealth by counted gold ; Ere kings or priests their tyranny began , ' Or man was vaffal'd to his fellow - man . ' O halcyon ftate ! when man began to live ! A bleffing worthy of a God to give ! Who , on th ' unspotted mind his Maker ...
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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.