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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... moffy banks , and flow'ry winding vales , With various profpects gratify the fight , And scatter fix'd attention in delight . Come , country Goddess , come , nor thou fuffice , But bring thy mountain fifter , Exercise : Call'd by thy ...
... moffy banks , and flow'ry winding vales , With various profpects gratify the fight , And scatter fix'd attention in delight . Come , country Goddess , come , nor thou fuffice , But bring thy mountain fifter , Exercise : Call'd by thy ...
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... moffy Rocks Retain the found ! the broad refponfive low , Ye Vallies , raife ! for the Great Shepherd reigns , And his unfuff'ring kingdom yet will come . Ye Woodlands all , awake ! a boundless fong Burft from the Groves ; and , when ...
... moffy Rocks Retain the found ! the broad refponfive low , Ye Vallies , raife ! for the Great Shepherd reigns , And his unfuff'ring kingdom yet will come . Ye Woodlands all , awake ! a boundless fong Burft from the Groves ; and , when ...
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... moffy feat , In my hours of fweet retreat , Might I thus my foul employ , With fenfe of gratitude and joy : Rais'd as ancient prophets were In heavenly vifion , praife and prayer : Pleafing all men , hurting none , Pleas'd and bleft ...
... moffy feat , In my hours of fweet retreat , Might I thus my foul employ , With fenfe of gratitude and joy : Rais'd as ancient prophets were In heavenly vifion , praife and prayer : Pleafing all men , hurting none , Pleas'd and bleft ...
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... moffy neft ; Here røve and fing the live - long day At night here sweetly reft . Amidst this cool translucent rill , That trickles down the glade , Here bathe your plumes , here drink your fill , And revel in the fhade . No school - boy ...
... moffy neft ; Here røve and fing the live - long day At night here sweetly reft . Amidst this cool translucent rill , That trickles down the glade , Here bathe your plumes , here drink your fill , And revel in the fhade . No school - boy ...
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... moffy cell , Where I may fit and rightly spell Of ev'ry tar that Heaven doth fhew , An ev'ry herb that fips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To fomething like prophetic ftrain . Thefe pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with ...
... moffy cell , Where I may fit and rightly spell Of ev'ry tar that Heaven doth fhew , An ev'ry herb that fips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To fomething like prophetic ftrain . Thefe pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with ...
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æther beauty beft bleffings blifs bloom bofom breaft breath bright charms cheek clouds Corydon DAVID GARRICK defcends diftant e'er earth Ev'n ev'ry facred fafe fair fate fcenes fecret feek feen fenfe fhade fhall fhepherd fhine figh filent filver fing firft fkies fleep flow flow'rs fmiling foft folemn fome fong fons footh forrow foul fpread fpring ftill ftream fuch fwain fweet glories glow grace grove happineſs heart Heav'n hour laft luftre lute lyre mind moffy morn mourn mufe mufic Nature's ne'er night nymph o'er paffions Palemon peace Philomel pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe pride raife reft rife rofe round ſcene ſhall ſkies ſky ſtars ſtate ſtill tear thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought train trembling tuneful vale virtue voice warbling whofe Whoſe wings youth