The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive, Pathetic, Plaintive, and Pastoral Poetry, Extracted from the Works of the Latest and Most Celebrated Poets... |
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... fancy , and delight the eyes ; Though art's fair works , and nature's gifts conspire To please each fenfe , and fatiate each defire , ' Tis joyless all - till thy enliv'ning ray Scatters the melancholy gloom away . Then opens to the ...
... fancy , and delight the eyes ; Though art's fair works , and nature's gifts conspire To please each fenfe , and fatiate each defire , ' Tis joyless all - till thy enliv'ning ray Scatters the melancholy gloom away . Then opens to the ...
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... fancy fwell , And guards and courtiers crowd his empty cell . See how he walks majeftic through the throng ! ( Behind he trails his tatter'd robes along ) And cheaply bleft , and innocently vain , Enjoys the dear delufion of his brain ...
... fancy fwell , And guards and courtiers crowd his empty cell . See how he walks majeftic through the throng ! ( Behind he trails his tatter'd robes along ) And cheaply bleft , and innocently vain , Enjoys the dear delufion of his brain ...
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... fancy forms , All free and cheerful rife . So thou , nor led by lufts aftray , Nor gall'd with anxious ftrife , With virtuous industry fulfil The plain intent of life . Pass calmly thy appointed day , And usefully employ , And then thou ...
... fancy forms , All free and cheerful rife . So thou , nor led by lufts aftray , Nor gall'd with anxious ftrife , With virtuous industry fulfil The plain intent of life . Pass calmly thy appointed day , And usefully employ , And then thou ...
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... fancy's vary'd mirror , to his eyes . Not fo the flave ; opprefs'd with secret care , He finks the hapless victim of despair ; Or , doom'd to torments that might even move The fteely heart , and melt it into love ; Till worn with ...
... fancy's vary'd mirror , to his eyes . Not fo the flave ; opprefs'd with secret care , He finks the hapless victim of despair ; Or , doom'd to torments that might even move The fteely heart , and melt it into love ; Till worn with ...
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... wings ; Sweet beaming hope her path illumine still , And fair ideas all her fancy fill . C 3 MRS . BARBAULD , SECT . SE C T. XVIII . ON PROCRASTINATION . BE wife [ 29 ] To a young Lady On Procraftination On Irrefolution XX On Time ibid.
... wings ; Sweet beaming hope her path illumine still , And fair ideas all her fancy fill . C 3 MRS . BARBAULD , SECT . SE C T. XVIII . ON PROCRASTINATION . BE wife [ 29 ] To a young Lady On Procraftination On Irrefolution XX On Time ibid.
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Page 328 - The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.
Page 30 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 239 - Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows ; Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, strange to tell! Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
Page 105 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Page 332 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 323 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 109 - O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid...
Page 109 - To new-found worlds, and wept for others' woe ; But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave. His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, And left a lover's for a father's arms.
Page 333 - Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Page 110 - Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand. Contented toil and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there; And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty and faithful love.