A Collection of Eighteenth Century VerseMargaret Lynn |
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Page 103
... scene unfolding wide , Clap the glad wing , and tower away , And mingle with the blaze of day . ' 75 80 85 90 A HYMN FOR EVENING THE beam - repelling mists arise , And evening spreads obscurer skies : The twilight will the night forerun ...
... scene unfolding wide , Clap the glad wing , and tower away , And mingle with the blaze of day . ' 75 80 85 90 A HYMN FOR EVENING THE beam - repelling mists arise , And evening spreads obscurer skies : The twilight will the night forerun ...
Page 137
... scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspired repulsed battalions to engage , 260 265 270 275 280 285 290 And taught the doubtful battle where to rage . The ...
... scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspired repulsed battalions to engage , 260 265 270 275 280 285 290 And taught the doubtful battle where to rage . The ...
Page 157
... another thing . " * * * Here shift the scene , to represent How these I love my death lament . Poor Pope would grieve a month , and Gay 165 170 175 180 185 205 210 215 220 225 230 235 A week , and On the Death of Dr. Swift 157.
... another thing . " * * * Here shift the scene , to represent How these I love my death lament . Poor Pope would grieve a month , and Gay 165 170 175 180 185 205 210 215 220 225 230 235 A week , and On the Death of Dr. Swift 157.
Page 159
... scene ! No further mention of the Dean ; Who now , alas ! no more is missed , Than if he never did exist . Where's now this favourite of Apollo ! Departed : - and his works must follow ; Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is ...
... scene ! No further mention of the Dean ; Who now , alas ! no more is missed , Than if he never did exist . Where's now this favourite of Apollo ! Departed : - and his works must follow ; Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is ...
Page 181
... ! farewell , Farewell ! whom joined in fame , in friendship tried , No chance could sever , nor the grave divide . 105 IIO ALLAN RAMSAY THE GENTLE SHEPHERD ACT I. SCENE II A To Earl of Warwick , On Death of Mr. Addison 181.
... ! farewell , Farewell ! whom joined in fame , in friendship tried , No chance could sever , nor the grave divide . 105 IIO ALLAN RAMSAY THE GENTLE SHEPHERD ACT I. SCENE II A To Earl of Warwick , On Death of Mr. Addison 181.
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Absalom and Achitophel Balclutha bards beauty beneath bless Braes of Yarrow breast breath busk Carthon cease to sigh charms cheerful Clessámmor clouds crown dark death delight Dryden Dunciad ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear Fingal flowers frae grace grave Grongar Hill groves hand hear heart heaven heroic couplet hill honour Jenny king labour Lobbin Clout Lochaber look lyre maid maun mighty mind morning mourn Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er passions Pindaric plain pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's Popish Plot pow'r praise pride proud redemption draweth nigh rise Robin Gray round satire scene shade Shadwell shine sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul spread swain sweet tears thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse voice waves weep Whig wind Yarrow ye Britons youth ΙΟ
Popular passages
Page 85 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 322 - 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 ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Page 327 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 254 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 255 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 244 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 326 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; 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...
Page 56 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 329 - The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied.
Page 23 - The princes applaud with a furious joy ; And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy ; Thais led the way, To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy.