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... Nature's purest strain- To warm and meliorate the human heart . From lovely fertile vales , and stately bow'rs , Where Genius blooms , unconscious of decay , I cull'd this Wreath of amaranthine Flow'rs ; Still breathing fragrance ever ...
... Nature's purest strain- To warm and meliorate the human heart . From lovely fertile vales , and stately bow'rs , Where Genius blooms , unconscious of decay , I cull'd this Wreath of amaranthine Flow'rs ; Still breathing fragrance ever ...
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... Nature's womb , that in quaternion run Perpetual circle , multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceafelefs change Vary to our great Maker still new praise . Ye Mifts and Exhalations that now rife From hill or steaming ...
... Nature's womb , that in quaternion run Perpetual circle , multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceafelefs change Vary to our great Maker still new praise . Ye Mifts and Exhalations that now rife From hill or steaming ...
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... did fruitful ftores allow : Content with food , which nature freely bred , On wildings and on ftiawberries they ied ; Cornels and bramble - berries gave the reft , And 14 POETICAL The Four Ages, from Ovid's Metamorphofes Dryd.
... did fruitful ftores allow : Content with food , which nature freely bred , On wildings and on ftiawberries they ied ; Cornels and bramble - berries gave the reft , And 14 POETICAL The Four Ages, from Ovid's Metamorphofes Dryd.
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... nature needs ! For Nature wifely ftints our appetite , And craves no more than undisturb'd delight ; Which minds , unmix'd with cares and fears , obtain ; A foul ferene , a body void of pain . So little this corporeal frame requires ...
... nature needs ! For Nature wifely ftints our appetite , And craves no more than undisturb'd delight ; Which minds , unmix'd with cares and fears , obtain ; A foul ferene , a body void of pain . So little this corporeal frame requires ...
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... nature and right reafon muft display Their beams abroad , and bring the darkfome foul to day . VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS , PARAPHRASED . CREATOR Spirit , by whose aid , The world's foundations firft were laid , Come vifit every p'ous mind ...
... nature and right reafon muft display Their beams abroad , and bring the darkfome foul to day . VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS , PARAPHRASED . CREATOR Spirit , by whose aid , The world's foundations firft were laid , Come vifit every p'ous mind ...
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Page 100 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 7 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 227 - There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 128 - That cast an awful Look below; Whose ragged Walls the Ivy creeps, And with her Arms from...
Page 30 - Lo ! these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others good, or melt at others woe.
Page 105 - Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
Page 225 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Page 201 - Turn, Angelina, ever- dear. My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. "Thus let me hold thee to my heart; And every care resign : And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine ? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 86 - Goody, good-woman, gossip, n'aunt, forsooth, Or dame, the sole additions she did hear; Yet these she challenged, these she held right dear ; Ne would esteem him act as mought behove Who should not honour'd eld with these revere ; For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a mind which did that title love.
Page 32 - And hail, my son," the reverend sire replied ; Words follow'd words, from question answer flow'd, And talk of various kind deceiv'd the road ; Till each with other pleas'd, and loth to part, While in their age they differ, join in heart : Thus stands an aged elm in ivy bound, Thus youthful ivy clasps an elm around.