The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone: With Decorations, 第 1 巻J. Dodsley, 1777 |
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... heart , and foftened the moft obdurate . His perfon , as to height , was above the middle ftature , but largely and rather inelegantly formed : his face feemed plain till you converfed with him , and then it grew very pleafing . In his ...
... heart , and foftened the moft obdurate . His perfon , as to height , was above the middle ftature , but largely and rather inelegantly formed : his face feemed plain till you converfed with him , and then it grew very pleafing . In his ...
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... hearts of his readers : and amidst the nicest at- tention to the harmony of his numbers , he always took care to exprefs with propriety the fentiments of an elegant mind . In all his writings , his greatest difficulty was to please ...
... hearts of his readers : and amidst the nicest at- tention to the harmony of his numbers , he always took care to exprefs with propriety the fentiments of an elegant mind . In all his writings , his greatest difficulty was to please ...
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... heart . It is to be lamented indeed , that fome things here are unfinished , and can be regarded only as frag- ments : many are left as fingle thoughts , but which , like the fparks of diamonds , fhew the richness of the mine to which ...
... heart . It is to be lamented indeed , that fome things here are unfinished , and can be regarded only as frag- ments : many are left as fingle thoughts , but which , like the fparks of diamonds , fhew the richness of the mine to which ...
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... heart , But mourns in labour'd ftrains , the price of fame ! O lov'd fimplicity ! be thine the prize ! Affiduous art correct her page in vain ! His be the palm who , guiltlefs of disguise , Contemns the pow'r , the dull refource to ...
... heart , But mourns in labour'd ftrains , the price of fame ! O lov'd fimplicity ! be thine the prize ! Affiduous art correct her page in vain ! His be the palm who , guiltlefs of disguise , Contemns the pow'r , the dull refource to ...
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... heart , But envious fate forbade him to bestow . He little knew to ward the fecret wound ; He little knew that mortals could enfnare ; Virtue he knew ; the nobleft joy he found , To fing her glories , and to paint her fair ! Ill was he ...
... heart , But envious fate forbade him to bestow . He little knew to ward the fecret wound ; He little knew that mortals could enfnare ; Virtue he knew ; the nobleft joy he found , To fing her glories , and to paint her fair ! Ill was he ...
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186 ページ - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
184 ページ - I fed on the smiles of my dear? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
327 ページ - And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe. But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain...
323 ページ - Who should not honour'd eld with these revere : For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a Mind which did...
183 ページ - What it is, to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each ev'ning repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn : — I have bade my dear Phyllis farewel.
329 ページ - Ah me ! how much I fear left pride it be ! But if that pride it be, which thus infpires, Beware, ye dames, with nice difcernment fee, Ye quench not too the fparks of nobler fires : Ah ! better far than all the mufes...
186 ページ - I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove, That it ever attended the bold ; And she call'd it the sister of love. But her words such a pleasure convey, So much I her accents adore, Let her speak, and whatever she say, Methinks, I should love her the more.
327 ページ - But ah ! what pen his piteous plight may trace ? Or what device his loud laments explain? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...
185 ページ - But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
77 ページ - Thou gav'ft the fheep that browze Iberian plains : Their plaintive cries the faithlefs region fill, Their fleece adorns an haughty foe's domains. Ill-fated flocks ! from cliff to cliff they ftray ; Far from their dams, their native guardians, far! Where the foft fhepherd, all the livelong day, Chants his proud miftrefs to his hoarfe guittar.