A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects |
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... pursue ; For no Inclemencies retard our Pains , But infant Plenty laughs along the Plains : We view the early Bud and rifing Bloom , And joyful , deem the fruitful Crop to come . While with a ravish'd Heart and thankful Mind , We fay ...
... pursue ; For no Inclemencies retard our Pains , But infant Plenty laughs along the Plains : We view the early Bud and rifing Bloom , And joyful , deem the fruitful Crop to come . While with a ravish'd Heart and thankful Mind , We fay ...
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... met , their Friendship they rehearse , In rural Song , and in alternate Verse . To thee , dear TYZACK I repeat their Lays , More fond of thy Efteem , than publick Praife . When When Friendship is the Theme that I pursue , The.
... met , their Friendship they rehearse , In rural Song , and in alternate Verse . To thee , dear TYZACK I repeat their Lays , More fond of thy Efteem , than publick Praife . When When Friendship is the Theme that I pursue , The.
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Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects Isaac Thompson. When Friendship is the Theme that I pursue , The Theme and Song are both to TYZACK due ; And if this Verfe he judges not in vain , Then all the Bays are mine , I seek to gain . DAMON ...
Occasionally Writ on Several Subjects Isaac Thompson. When Friendship is the Theme that I pursue , The Theme and Song are both to TYZACK due ; And if this Verfe he judges not in vain , Then all the Bays are mine , I seek to gain . DAMON ...
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... pursue . For think not , PARIS ! that the Grecian Lord Will stay his Vengeance , or reftrain his Sword ; Ere long , his Wrongs fhall tumult in Alarms , And Troy behold all Greece approach in Arms . CASSANDRA's Vision I shall still ...
... pursue . For think not , PARIS ! that the Grecian Lord Will stay his Vengeance , or reftrain his Sword ; Ere long , his Wrongs fhall tumult in Alarms , And Troy behold all Greece approach in Arms . CASSANDRA's Vision I shall still ...
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... pursue , Methinks I kindle at the View ; Rapt into future Times , I fee The Gain of us ( thy Guests ) and thee ; But great is ours , compar'd with thine , The little Profit of thy Wine , Our Gain is of a nobler kind , More rational ...
... pursue , Methinks I kindle at the View ; Rapt into future Times , I fee The Gain of us ( thy Guests ) and thee ; But great is ours , compar'd with thine , The little Profit of thy Wine , Our Gain is of a nobler kind , More rational ...
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Abfence arife Beauties Bleffings bleft Blifs Bloom blooming Groves Bofom Breaſt bright caft Charms DAMON Daphnis dear Defire Delight diff'rent Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fame feems felf fhall fhining fhould figh'd fince fing Fire firſt Flame flow flow'ry fmile foft fome foon ftill fuch fweet fwell gen'rous Genius Glories glow Groves happy Heart Heav'n heav'nly Hills John Joys juſt lafting laſt lefs lov'd Love Mankind melting Mind moſt Mount Ida mourn Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er OENONE OVID Paffion Paftoral Pain PARIS Plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe PRIAM purſue Rapture raviſh'd rife Robert Rofe Scenes Seafon Senfe Shades ſhall ſhe Shepherd ſhine Silvia's Skie Skies Song Soul ſtay ſtill Streams STREPHON Swain tender thee thefe theſe Things feel thofe Thomas thoſe thou Thought thouſand thro Verfe Verſe VIRG whofe Whoſe William Youth
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Page viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Page 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Page vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Page 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Page xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Page 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Page 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Page vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...