Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the Logographic Printing OfficeJ. Walter, 1785 - 225 من الصفحات |
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... in great mea- fure through the inability of the countries to fupply fuch a vast hoft with provision . He stalks with vaft gigantic ftride , And fcatters fear A 3 He IN VERSE AND PROSE . The tyrant claim'd a mightier host,' ...
... in great mea- fure through the inability of the countries to fupply fuch a vast hoft with provision . He stalks with vaft gigantic ftride , And fcatters fear A 3 He IN VERSE AND PROSE . The tyrant claim'd a mightier host,' ...
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... fear and ruin wide . So the impetuous torrents sweep At once whole nations to the deep . REVENGE , that bafe * Hefperian , known A chief support of SLANDER's throne , Amidst the bloody croud is seen , And Treachery brooding in his mien ...
... fear and ruin wide . So the impetuous torrents sweep At once whole nations to the deep . REVENGE , that bafe * Hefperian , known A chief support of SLANDER's throne , Amidst the bloody croud is seen , And Treachery brooding in his mien ...
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... fear , are very few . So little company , you fay , Yet fond of home from day to day ! How do you fhun detraction's rod ? I doubt your neighbours think you odd ! Content . I commune with myfelf at night , And ask my heart , if all be ...
... fear , are very few . So little company , you fay , Yet fond of home from day to day ! How do you fhun detraction's rod ? I doubt your neighbours think you odd ! Content . I commune with myfelf at night , And ask my heart , if all be ...
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... fear no fecret foe ; Our walks ambition ne'er attends , And hence we afk no pow'rful friends ; We wish the beft to church and ftate , But leave the steerage to the great ; Care- Careless , who rifes , or who falls , And IN VERSE AND ...
... fear no fecret foe ; Our walks ambition ne'er attends , And hence we afk no pow'rful friends ; We wish the beft to church and ftate , But leave the steerage to the great ; Care- Careless , who rifes , or who falls , And IN VERSE AND ...
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... expectation high . See that the balanc'd fcales be fuch , You neither fear , nor hope too much . For difappointment's not the thing ; " Tis pride and paffion point the fting . Life Life is a fea , where ftorms must rise ; 16 MISCELLANIES.
... expectation high . See that the balanc'd fcales be fuch , You neither fear , nor hope too much . For difappointment's not the thing ; " Tis pride and paffion point the fting . Life Life is a fea , where ftorms must rise ; 16 MISCELLANIES.
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الصفحة 142 - 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; "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.
الصفحة 143 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
الصفحة 87 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
الصفحة 139 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
الصفحة 142 - Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
الصفحة 142 - 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. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
الصفحة 138 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
الصفحة 168 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
الصفحة 89 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
الصفحة 142 - 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.