The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: I. Elegies on several occasions. II. Odes, songs, ballads, &c. III. Levities, or pieces of humour. IV. Moral piecesR. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall., 1764 - 345 ページ |
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... should enter into the true spirit of his writings , if he is en- tirely ignorant of those circumstances of his life , which fometimes fo greatly influenced his re- flections . I could wish however that this task had been allotted to ...
... should enter into the true spirit of his writings , if he is en- tirely ignorant of those circumstances of his life , which fometimes fo greatly influenced his re- flections . I could wish however that this task had been allotted to ...
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... should rather be led to wonder that he left any thing behind him , than to blame his want of œconomy . He left however more than fufficient to pay all his debts ; and by his A 2 will will appropriated his whole eftate for that pur- pɔfe ...
... should rather be led to wonder that he left any thing behind him , than to blame his want of œconomy . He left however more than fufficient to pay all his debts ; and by his A 2 will will appropriated his whole eftate for that pur- pɔfe ...
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William Shenstone Robert Dodsley. without too flavish a regard to fashion , every one should dress in a manner most suitable to his own person and figure . In fhort , his faults were only little blemishes , thrown in by nature , as it ...
William Shenstone Robert Dodsley. without too flavish a regard to fashion , every one should dress in a manner most suitable to his own person and figure . In fhort , his faults were only little blemishes , thrown in by nature , as it ...
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... should lose any thing material of fo accomplished a writer . In this dilemma it will eafily be conceived that the task I had to perform would become somewhat difficult . How I have acquitted myself , the public must judge . Nothing ...
... should lose any thing material of fo accomplished a writer . In this dilemma it will eafily be conceived that the task I had to perform would become somewhat difficult . How I have acquitted myself , the public must judge . Nothing ...
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... should also tend to elevate the more tranquil virtues of humility , difintereftedness , fimplicity , and innocence : but then there is a de- gree of elegance and refinement , no way inconfiftent with thefe rural virtues ; and that ...
... should also tend to elevate the more tranquil virtues of humility , difintereftedness , fimplicity , and innocence : but then there is a de- gree of elegance and refinement , no way inconfiftent with thefe rural virtues ; and that ...
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330 ページ - And all in sight doth rise a birchen tree, Which Learning near her little dome did...
188 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...
188 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.
332 ページ - Goody, good-woman, gossip, n'aunt, forsooth, Or dame, the sole additions she did hear; Yet these she challenged, these she held right dear ; Ne would esteem him act as mought behove 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 that title love.
190 ページ - She is every way pleasing to me. 0 you that have been of her train, Come and join in my amorous lays ! 1 could lay down my life for the swain, That will sing but a song in her praise.
186 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.
335 ページ - To thwart the proud, and the fubmifs to raife ; Some with vile copper prize exalt on high, And fome entice with pittance fmall of praife ; And other fome with baleful...
193 ページ - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
187 ページ - To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away, Is happy, nor heard to repine. Thus, widely remov'd from the fair, Where my vows, my devotion I owe ; Soft hope is the relique I bear, And my solace wherever I go.
336 ページ - She sees no kind domestic visage near, 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? The form uncouth of his disguised face ? The pallid hue that dyes his looks amain ? The plenteous shower that does his cheek distain...