Poems by Mr. GrayWilliam Sleater, 1768 - 187 ページ |
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... hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralift ! and what art thou ? A folitary fly ! Thy * While infects from the threshold preach , & c . M. GREEN , in the Grotto . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , [ Lond . Edit . ] Vol . V ...
... hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralift ! and what art thou ? A folitary fly ! Thy * While infects from the threshold preach , & c . M. GREEN , in the Grotto . Dodfley's Mifcellanies , [ Lond . Edit . ] Vol . V ...
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... hear a voice in every wind , And fnatch a fearful joy . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Lefs pleasing when poffeft ; The tear forgot as foon as shed , The funfhine of the breast : Theirs buxom health of rofy hue , Wild wit , invention ...
... hear a voice in every wind , And fnatch a fearful joy . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Lefs pleasing when poffeft ; The tear forgot as foon as shed , The funfhine of the breast : Theirs buxom health of rofy hue , Wild wit , invention ...
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... hear thy foft controul . On Thracia's hills the Lord of War , Has curb'd the fury of his car , And drop'd his thirfty lance at thy command . + Perching on the fceptred hand Of Jove , thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled ...
... hear thy foft controul . On Thracia's hills the Lord of War , Has curb'd the fury of his car , And drop'd his thirfty lance at thy command . + Perching on the fceptred hand Of Jove , thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled ...
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... hear the favage Youth repeat In loose numbers wildly fweet , Their feather - cinctured Chiefs , and dufky Loves . Her track , where'er the Goddess roves , Glory pursue , and generous Shame , Th ' unconquerable Mind , and Freedom's holy ...
... hear the favage Youth repeat In loose numbers wildly fweet , Their feather - cinctured Chiefs , and dufky Loves . Her track , where'er the Goddess roves , Glory pursue , and generous Shame , Th ' unconquerable Mind , and Freedom's holy ...
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... Hear from the grave , great Taliesfint , hear ; " They breathe a foul to animate thy clay . " Bright rapture calls , and foaring as fhe fings , " Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many - colour'd wings . The * Speed , relating an audience ...
... Hear from the grave , great Taliesfint , hear ; " They breathe a foul to animate thy clay . " Bright rapture calls , and foaring as fhe fings , " Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many - colour'd wings . The * Speed , relating an audience ...
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65 ページ - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
61 ページ - Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.
102 ページ - Hoarse he bays with hideous din, Eyes that glow, and fangs that grin ; And long pursues, with fruitless yell, The father of the powerful spell.
52 ページ - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
31 ページ - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
68 ページ - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far ! — but far above the...
22 ページ - Eight times emerging from the flood She mew'd to ev'ry watry God, Some speedy aid to send. No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd: Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A Fav'rite has no friend! From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know, one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.
147 ページ - 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.
137 ページ - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
145 ページ - On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 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...