Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue : and with a View to Comprise in One Volume the Beauties of English Poetry |
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... fix the lurking bait ; To wound the fowl I load the gun with fate . ' Tis thus through change of exercise I range , And ftrength and pleasure rife from every change . Here , beauteous Health ! for all the year remain 2 SELECT POEMS .
... fix the lurking bait ; To wound the fowl I load the gun with fate . ' Tis thus through change of exercise I range , And ftrength and pleasure rife from every change . Here , beauteous Health ! for all the year remain 2 SELECT POEMS .
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... rife Swift mantling to the view , Like colours o'er the morning skies , As bright , as tranfient too . The bashful look , the rifing breast , Alternate spread alarms , The lovely stranger stands confest , A maid in all her charms ...
... rife Swift mantling to the view , Like colours o'er the morning skies , As bright , as tranfient too . The bashful look , the rifing breast , Alternate spread alarms , The lovely stranger stands confest , A maid in all her charms ...
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... rife , Think of its crimes , its cares , its pain , Then shield me in the woods again . 1 ODE TO SENSIBILITY . THANKS to thee , Nymph , whofe powerful hand From dullness set me free ; Thy praifes I'll for ever fing , Sweet Senfibility ...
... rife , Think of its crimes , its cares , its pain , Then shield me in the woods again . 1 ODE TO SENSIBILITY . THANKS to thee , Nymph , whofe powerful hand From dullness set me free ; Thy praifes I'll for ever fing , Sweet Senfibility ...
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... rife That virtue blooms but in her native skies ? The charming plant , here nurs'd with tender care , By death transplanted , yields its produce there . This thought alone can the good man sustain , And give him ease in poverty and pain ...
... rife That virtue blooms but in her native skies ? The charming plant , here nurs'd with tender care , By death transplanted , yields its produce there . This thought alone can the good man sustain , And give him ease in poverty and pain ...
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... rife , And dart around its vermeil dyes ; Bids filver luftre grace yon ' sparkling tide , That winding warbles down the mountain's fide . Away , ye goblins all ! Wont the bewilder'd traveller to daunt ; Whofe vagrant feet have trac'd ...
... rife , And dart around its vermeil dyes ; Bids filver luftre grace yon ' sparkling tide , That winding warbles down the mountain's fide . Away , ye goblins all ! Wont the bewilder'd traveller to daunt ; Whofe vagrant feet have trac'd ...
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æther beauty beneath beſtow bids bleffings blifs bloom bofom breaſt breath charms cheek clouds DAVID GARRICK defcends deſpair e'er earth eaſe Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe fair fate fcenes fecret feek feen fhade fhall fhepherd fhine figh filent filver fing flame fleep flow flow'rs fmiling foft folemn fome fong fons footh forrow foul fpread fpring ftill ftream fuch fwain fweet glories glow grace grove heart Heav'n hour laft luftre lyre mind moffy morn mourn mufe mufic muſt Nature's ne'er night nymph o'er paffions pain Palemon peace pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe pride refign'd reft rife rofe round ſcene ſhade ſhall ſhe ſkies ſky ſteps ſtill ſtrain ſweet tear thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand train trembling tuneful vale virtue voice warbling whofe whoſe wings youth