Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1Vicesimus Knox Rivington, 1791 - English poetry |
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... round my couch in grim array , And ftab my bleeding heart with two - edg'd torture , Senfe of paft guilt , and dread of future woe . Far be the ghaftly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her pureft cells Lead forth a ...
... round my couch in grim array , And ftab my bleeding heart with two - edg'd torture , Senfe of paft guilt , and dread of future woe . Far be the ghaftly crew ! And in their stead Let cheerful Memory from her pureft cells Lead forth a ...
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... round . At once he loft His glory and his God . If mortal now , And forely maim'd , no wonder ! Man has finn'd . Sick of his blifs , and bent on new adventures , Evil he would needs try : nor tried in vain . ( Dreadful experiment ...
... round . At once he loft His glory and his God . If mortal now , And forely maim'd , no wonder ! Man has finn'd . Sick of his blifs , and bent on new adventures , Evil he would needs try : nor tried in vain . ( Dreadful experiment ...
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... round ) ? If to the Heav'n of Heav'ns they wing their way Advent rous , like the birds of night they're loft , And delug d in the flood of dazzling day .-- May then the youthful , uninfpired Bard Prefume to hymn th Eternal may he foar ...
... round ) ? If to the Heav'n of Heav'ns they wing their way Advent rous , like the birds of night they're loft , And delug d in the flood of dazzling day .-- May then the youthful , uninfpired Bard Prefume to hymn th Eternal may he foar ...
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... round its head ! VII . WISDOM . O thou , who when th'Almighty form'd this All , Upheld the feale , and weigh'd cach balanc'd ball ; And as his hand completed each defign , Number'd the work , and fix'd the feal divine ; O Wisdom ...
... round its head ! VII . WISDOM . O thou , who when th'Almighty form'd this All , Upheld the feale , and weigh'd cach balanc'd ball ; And as his hand completed each defign , Number'd the work , and fix'd the feal divine ; O Wisdom ...
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... round her winding fhores , The new - born world in their cool arms em- bracing , And with foft murmurs ftill her banks careffing . At length the rofe complete in finifh'd pride , All fair and fpottefs , like a virgin bride : Fresh with ...
... round her winding fhores , The new - born world in their cool arms em- bracing , And with foft murmurs ftill her banks careffing . At length the rofe complete in finifh'd pride , All fair and fpottefs , like a virgin bride : Fresh with ...
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Page 22 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 22 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 188 - Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 443 - 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 215 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Page 210 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 14 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 19 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe.
Page 205 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 33 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt, the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd and let 'em forth By my so potent Art.