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... double , by the fool , and wife , Plant of celeftial feed ! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal foil thou deign't to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome court's propitious fhine , Or deep Fair [ 38 ] Draw to one point, and to one center bring ...
... double , by the fool , and wife , Plant of celeftial feed ! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal foil thou deign't to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome court's propitious fhine , Or deep Fair [ 38 ] Draw to one point, and to one center bring ...
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... fhine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnaffian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvefts of the field ? Where grows ? -where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ought to blame the culture , not ...
... fhine , Or deep with di'monds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnaffian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron harvefts of the field ? Where grows ? -where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ought to blame the culture , not ...
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... fhine , and the heart - felt joy , - Is virtue's prize a better would you fix , Then give humility a coach and fix , Juftice a conqu'ror's fword , or truth a gown , Or public fpirit its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will ...
... fhine , and the heart - felt joy , - Is virtue's prize a better would you fix , Then give humility a coach and fix , Juftice a conqu'ror's fword , or truth a gown , Or public fpirit its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will ...
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... fhine , Or on the Rubicon , or on the Rhine . A wit's a feather , and a chief a rod ; An honeft man's the nobleft work of God . Fame but from death a villain's name can fave , As juftice tears his body from the grave ; When what th ...
... fhine , Or on the Rubicon , or on the Rhine . A wit's a feather , and a chief a rod ; An honeft man's the nobleft work of God . Fame but from death a villain's name can fave , As juftice tears his body from the grave ; When what th ...
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... fhine , or sanctified from shame ! What greater blifs attends their clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife ; The trophy'd arches , flory'd halls invade , And haunt their flumbers in the pompous fhade . Alas ! not dazzled ...
... fhine , or sanctified from shame ! What greater blifs attends their clofe of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife ; The trophy'd arches , flory'd halls invade , And haunt their flumbers in the pompous fhade . Alas ! not dazzled ...
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ALEXANDER POPE angels behold beneath BIRTHA bleffing bleft blifs bofom breaft caft charms crown'd death defcend diftant dreadful earth EDWARD YOUNG eternal ev'ry facred fair fame fate fcene fear fecond feem feen fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhine fhone fide figh filent fill fing firft fix'd fkies flain flame flate fleep flood flow fmile foft fome forrow foul fpreads frike ftill fuch funk fweet fwell glory grace GRONGAR HILL grove happineſs heart heav'n itſelf juft laft lefs loft Lord lyre mind mourn mufe mufic muft muſt nature nature's o'er paffion pain pale pallions Phaon pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife pride rage raiſe reafon reft rife rocks Sappho ſhall tears Theatre Royal thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro throne trembling Twas vaft vale virtue weft whofe youth
Popular passages
Page 54 - Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 59 - Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, (Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, — While organs yet were mute) Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Page 27 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace.
Page 39 - Where grows ? — where grows it not ? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 50 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins Heaven and Earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, • All end in love of God, and love of man.
Page 55 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride : — Happy, happy, happy pair ! None but the brave None but the brave None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 26 - Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 60 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 57 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure ; Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 56 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...