Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets, Volume 6Wells and Lilly, 1826 - English poetry |
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... light militia of the lower sky : These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our ...
... light militia of the lower sky : These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our ...
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... light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of air . ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind , is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits , freed from mortal laws , with ease Assume ...
... light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of air . ' Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind , is by some sylph embrac'd : For spirits , freed from mortal laws , with ease Assume ...
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... lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire . Then prostrate falls , and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain , and long possess the prize : The pow'rs gave ear , and granted half his pray'r , The rest the winds ...
... lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire . Then prostrate falls , and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain , and long possess the prize : The pow'rs gave ear , and granted half his pray'r , The rest the winds ...
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... light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew , Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies , Where light disports in ever - mingling dyes , While every beam new transient colours flings ...
... light . Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew , Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies , Where light disports in ever - mingling dyes , While every beam new transient colours flings ...
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... lights in bright order blaze ; While nymphs take treats , or assignations give , So long my honour , name , and praise shall live ! What Time would spare , from steel receives its date , And monuments , like men , submit to fate ! Steel ...
... lights in bright order blaze ; While nymphs take treats , or assignations give , So long my honour , name , and praise shall live ! What Time would spare , from steel receives its date , And monuments , like men , submit to fate ! Steel ...
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Page 94 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 93 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 81 - Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please ! How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe beside the murmuring Loire...
Page 98 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Page 10 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 94 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose...
Page 5 - Goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 158 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 87 - In every government , though terrors reign , Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 98 - With heavy heart, deplores that luckless hour When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown. Do thine, sweet AUBURN, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?