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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... beauty in a collection of elegies * not long fince pub- lifhed ; the product of a gentleman of the most exact tafte , and whofe untimely death merits all the tears that elegy can fhed . It is not impoffible that fome may think this ...
... beauty in a collection of elegies * not long fince pub- lifhed ; the product of a gentleman of the most exact tafte , and whofe untimely death merits all the tears that elegy can fhed . It is not impoffible that fome may think this ...
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... beauty to poetry , as it gives us a more striking representation of life . If the author has hazarded , throughout , the use of English or modern allufions , he hopes it will not be imputed to an entire ignorance , or to the leaft ...
... beauty to poetry , as it gives us a more striking representation of life . If the author has hazarded , throughout , the use of English or modern allufions , he hopes it will not be imputed to an entire ignorance , or to the leaft ...
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... beauty chide the fates ' fevere command , That fhew'd the frailty of so fair a bloom ! And fancy then with wild ungovern'd woe , Shall her lov'd pupil's native taste explain ; For mournful fable all her hues forego , And afk fweet ...
... beauty chide the fates ' fevere command , That fhew'd the frailty of so fair a bloom ! And fancy then with wild ungovern'd woe , Shall her lov'd pupil's native taste explain ; For mournful fable all her hues forego , And afk fweet ...
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... beauty , shape , O native foil , are thine ; Thy peerless daughters afk no foreign aid . Let * CEYLON's envy'd plant perfume the feas , Till torn to feason the Batavian bowl ; Ours is the breast whofe genuine ardours please , Nor need a ...
... beauty , shape , O native foil , are thine ; Thy peerless daughters afk no foreign aid . Let * CEYLON's envy'd plant perfume the feas , Till torn to feason the Batavian bowl ; Ours is the breast whofe genuine ardours please , Nor need a ...
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... beauty - wou'd my birth allow , Dear were the youth , and blissful were the plain . But oh ! I faint ! why waftes my vernal bloom , In fruitless fearches ever doom'd to rove ? My nightly dreams the toilfome path refume , And I fhall die ...
... beauty - wou'd my birth allow , Dear were the youth , and blissful were the plain . But oh ! I faint ! why waftes my vernal bloom , In fruitless fearches ever doom'd to rove ? My nightly dreams the toilfome path refume , And I fhall die ...
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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...