Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1782 - English poetry |
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... plain confiftent scheme Of true religion , all from Scripture drawn ; Wherein he shews the wond'rous works that God Has wrought for man , in ev'ry age and place ; Then tells how Chrift , his dear - beloved Son , In mercy to mankind ...
... plain confiftent scheme Of true religion , all from Scripture drawn ; Wherein he shews the wond'rous works that God Has wrought for man , in ev'ry age and place ; Then tells how Chrift , his dear - beloved Son , In mercy to mankind ...
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... plains unnumber'd glories rife , And a new , bright creation , charms our eyes ; Till Zephyr breathes : then all at once decay The fplendid fcenes , their glories fade away ; The fields refign the beauties not their own , And all their ...
... plains unnumber'd glories rife , And a new , bright creation , charms our eyes ; Till Zephyr breathes : then all at once decay The fplendid fcenes , their glories fade away ; The fields refign the beauties not their own , And all their ...
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... plain , Springs at the whip , and hears the ftrait'ning rein t To art our bodies muft obedient prove , If e'er we hope with graceful eafe to move . Long was the dancing art unfix'd and free , Hence loft in error and uncertainty ; No ...
... plain , Springs at the whip , and hears the ftrait'ning rein t To art our bodies muft obedient prove , If e'er we hope with graceful eafe to move . Long was the dancing art unfix'd and free , Hence loft in error and uncertainty ; No ...
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... plain , And flies , like her , thro ' crowds of heroes flain , Now , when the Minuet , oft repeated o'er , ( Like all terreftrial joys ) can please no more ; And ev'ry nymph , refufing to expand Her charms , declines the circulating ...
... plain , And flies , like her , thro ' crowds of heroes flain , Now , when the Minuet , oft repeated o'er , ( Like all terreftrial joys ) can please no more ; And ev'ry nymph , refufing to expand Her charms , declines the circulating ...
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... plain , Till with his gallant yeomandrie He join❜d King Arthur's train . Full forty thousand Saxon fpears Came glitt'ring down the hill , And with their shouts and clang of arms The diftant vallies fill . I 2 Old Old Offa , drefs'd in ...
... plain , Till with his gallant yeomandrie He join❜d King Arthur's train . Full forty thousand Saxon fpears Came glitt'ring down the hill , And with their shouts and clang of arms The diftant vallies fill . I 2 Old Old Offa , drefs'd in ...
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Page 381 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 111 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 21 - Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath ; Shall, when all other comforts cease, .Like a kind angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
Page 86 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring...
Page 33 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 86 - No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit, they linger yet, Avengers of their native land ; With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Page 33 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 201 - In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts. And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look; She sees, and trembles at th
Page 382 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 201 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...