Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village1814 |
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... Honours , 184. Birth , 203. Great- ness , 213. Fame , 233. Superior talents , 257. With pictures of human infelicity in men possest of them all , 275 , & c . That virtue only constitutes a happi- ness , whose object is universal , and ...
... Honours , 184. Birth , 203. Great- ness , 213. Fame , 233. Superior talents , 257. With pictures of human infelicity in men possest of them all , 275 , & c . That virtue only constitutes a happi- ness , whose object is universal , and ...
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... honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) 105 Lent Heav'n a parent to the poor and me ? What makes all physical ...
... honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can be ) 105 Lent Heav'n a parent to the poor and me ? What makes all physical ...
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... Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men hath some small diff'rence made , 195 One flaunts in rags , one flutters in brocade , ON MAN . 41 The cobler apron'd , and the 40 ...
... Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men hath some small diff'rence made , 195 One flaunts in rags , one flutters in brocade , ON MAN . 41 The cobler apron'd , and the 40 ...
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... honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of kings , or arms of queens who lay , How happy those to ruin , these betray ! Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows , From dirt and sea ...
... honour'd , fam'd , and great , See the false scale of happiness complete ! In hearts of kings , or arms of queens who lay , How happy those to ruin , these betray ! Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows , From dirt and sea ...
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... Honours . 3. Titles . 4. Birth . 5. Greatness . 6. Fame . 7. Superior parts . Ver . 300 ] That virtue only constitutes a happi- ness , whose object is universal , and whose prospect eternal . Ver . 318 , & c . ] That the perfection of ...
... Honours . 3. Titles . 4. Birth . 5. Greatness . 6. Fame . 7. Superior parts . Ver . 300 ] That virtue only constitutes a happi- ness , whose object is universal , and whose prospect eternal . Ver . 318 , & c . ] That the perfection of ...
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alike Amidst beneath Blair blank verse bless'd blessing blest bliss blood boast breast breath charms climes creature dear death e'en e'er earth ease Elegy EPISTLE EPISTLE II eternal ev'n ev'ry fame fear fix'd flies fool form'd gen'ral giv'n grave hand happiness heart Heav'n honour hope hope and fear human instinct int'rest kings land laws learn'd looks lord luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral nature nature's ne'er never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pain passions plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poem poor pow'r pride proud reason reign rest rich rill rise Robert Blair round Self-love shade shame sire skies slave smiling society soul spread strength swain sweet SWEET AUBURN taught tell thee thine thing thou thro toil Twas tyrant vice village virtue weak wealth Whilst whole wise world unknown wretch yonder
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الصفحة 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
الصفحة 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
الصفحة 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd 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...
الصفحة 18 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
الصفحة 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
الصفحة 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
الصفحة 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
الصفحة 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
الصفحة 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...