Practical English Prosody and Versification: Or, Descriptions of the Different Species of English Verse, with Exercises in Scanning and Versification ... Calculated to Produce Correctness of Ear and Taste in Reading and Writing Poetry ... |
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... no longer strikes the ear ; And ev'ry eye is dried from ev'ry tear . The pow'r , that bids all cares and troubles cease , Will kindly crown our future days with peace . His sire's exploits he now with wonder hears : The 72 Scanning .
... no longer strikes the ear ; And ev'ry eye is dried from ev'ry tear . The pow'r , that bids all cares and troubles cease , Will kindly crown our future days with peace . His sire's exploits he now with wonder hears : The 72 Scanning .
Page 76
... pow'r to bless , And raise up merit in distress ? 3 See Peace , with all her rural train , Health , Plenty , Joy , return again . 4 Peace and content would bless each day , The hours serenely glide away .... 5 Not all the world can now ...
... pow'r to bless , And raise up merit in distress ? 3 See Peace , with all her rural train , Health , Plenty , Joy , return again . 4 Peace and content would bless each day , The hours serenely glide away .... 5 Not all the world can now ...
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... pow'r , Nor hold in view forbidden joys . 129 And will you then conceal this wealth , For time to steal , or age to rust ? 130 Observant eyes confess her ways : Pursuing praises bless her steps . 131 The tim'rous breed knew the robber ...
... pow'r , Nor hold in view forbidden joys . 129 And will you then conceal this wealth , For time to steal , or age to rust ? 130 Observant eyes confess her ways : Pursuing praises bless her steps . 131 The tim'rous breed knew the robber ...
Page 95
... pow'r , And arraign thy too partial hand ? 145 But must the kind and the gentle Find thy fury , undistinguish'd ? 146 Yet base and cruel I am call'd , Who seek to release the wretched . 147 The fox , vers'd in deeper cunning , Rehears'd ...
... pow'r , And arraign thy too partial hand ? 145 But must the kind and the gentle Find thy fury , undistinguish'd ? 146 Yet base and cruel I am call'd , Who seek to release the wretched . 147 The fox , vers'd in deeper cunning , Rehears'd ...
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... pow'r and wealth attend me ; And my realms extend o'er the plains . 197 Alas ! thy page , poor Zimmermann ! Betrays thy age and indolence . 198 Disabled in the race , and tir'd , Ambition's fruitless chase I quit . 199 The British ...
... pow'r and wealth attend me ; And my realms extend o'er the plains . 197 Alas ! thy page , poor Zimmermann ! Betrays thy age and indolence . 198 Disabled in the race , and tir'd , Ambition's fruitless chase I quit . 199 The British ...
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Page 232 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 233 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Page 195 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 19 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Page v - T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art, That each may find its most propitious...
Page 81 - His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage ; In summer's heat and winter's cold He fed his flock and penn'd the fold : His hours in cheerful labour flew. Nor envy nor ambition knew : His wisdom and his honest fame Through all the country rais'd his name.
Page 232 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Page 73 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 32 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.