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And humbly hope for more . Thou from the regions of eternal day , My life , if thou preserv'lt my life , View'st all thy works at one immenle survey : Thy facrifice Thall be ; Pieas'd thou behold'At the whole propensely tend | And death ...
And humbly hope for more . Thou from the regions of eternal day , My life , if thou preserv'lt my life , View'st all thy works at one immenle survey : Thy facrifice Thall be ; Pieas'd thou behold'At the whole propensely tend | And death ...
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Which who but feels can taste ; but thinks , can ' Tis done , and now he's happy ! The glad foul know : Has not a wifh uncrown'd . " Exin the lag fieth Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , Rests too in hope of meeting once ...
Which who but feels can taste ; but thinks , can ' Tis done , and now he's happy ! The glad foul know : Has not a wifh uncrown'd . " Exin the lag fieth Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , Rests too in hope of meeting once ...
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Sulphureous pyrites Far more than human virtue can deserve , Bursting abrupt from darkness into day , Or hope expect , or gratitude return . With din outrageous and destructive ire , Then , o ye people , O ye fons of men , Augment the ...
Sulphureous pyrites Far more than human virtue can deserve , Bursting abrupt from darkness into day , Or hope expect , or gratitude return . With din outrageous and destructive ire , Then , o ye people , O ye fons of men , Augment the ...
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Jotunes the moral world : that Virtuc still Hiis praise let occan tro her realms dilplay , May hope her promis'd crown ; that vice may dread Far as her circling billows can conrey ! Vengeance , though late ; that reas'ning Pride may His ...
Jotunes the moral world : that Virtuc still Hiis praise let occan tro her realms dilplay , May hope her promis'd crown ; that vice may dread Far as her circling billows can conrey ! Vengeance , though late ; that reas'ning Pride may His ...
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In gloomy thade of cloisters dwell , But never haunt my cheerful cell . Hail to pleasure's frolic train ! Hail to fancy's golden reign ! Festive mirth , and laughter wild , Free and sportful as the child ! Hope with eager sparkling eyes ...
In gloomy thade of cloisters dwell , But never haunt my cheerful cell . Hail to pleasure's frolic train ! Hail to fancy's golden reign ! Festive mirth , and laughter wild , Free and sportful as the child ! Hope with eager sparkling eyes ...
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Page 20 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 20 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 186 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 441 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 213 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Page 208 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 12 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 17 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe.
Page 203 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 31 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.
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| Title | Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1 |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Publisher | Rivington, 1791 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 19, 2008 |
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