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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... thou , my friend ! while in thy youthful foul Love's gentle tyrant feats his aweful throne , Write from thy bofom - let not art controul The ready pen , that makes his edicts known . Pleafing when youth is long expir'd , to trace The ...
... thou , my friend ! while in thy youthful foul Love's gentle tyrant feats his aweful throne , Write from thy bofom - let not art controul The ready pen , that makes his edicts known . Pleafing when youth is long expir'd , to trace The ...
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... thou halt worn the day , Near fount or stream , in meditation , rove ; If in the grove CENONE loy'd to stray , The faithful mufe fhall meet thee in the grove . ELEGY EL EGY II . On pofthumous reputation . To a EL EGY I 35.
... thou halt worn the day , Near fount or stream , in meditation , rove ; If in the grove CENONE loy'd to stray , The faithful mufe fhall meet thee in the grove . ELEGY EL EGY II . On pofthumous reputation . To a EL EGY I 35.
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... Thou , gen'rous maid , reliev❜ft my partial pain , And chear'ft the victim of another's eyes . ' Tis thou , MELISSA , thou deferv'st my care : How can my will and reafon difagree ? How can my paffion live beneath despair ! How can my ...
... Thou , gen'rous maid , reliev❜ft my partial pain , And chear'ft the victim of another's eyes . ' Tis thou , MELISSA , thou deferv'st my care : How can my will and reafon difagree ? How can my paffion live beneath despair ! How can my ...
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... thou stray ? Does wealth or pow'r thy weary step constrain ? Reveal thy wish , and let me point the way . For know I trod the trophy'd paths of pow'r ; Felt ev'ry joy that fair ambition brings ; And left the lonely roof of yonder bow'r ...
... thou stray ? Does wealth or pow'r thy weary step constrain ? Reveal thy wish , and let me point the way . For know I trod the trophy'd paths of pow'r ; Felt ev'ry joy that fair ambition brings ; And left the lonely roof of yonder bow'r ...
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... thou ! that , like a meteor's fire , Shot'ft blazing forth ; difdaining dull degrees ; Shou'd I to wealth , to fame , to pow'r afpire , Muft I not pafs more rugged paths than these ? Muft I not groan beneath a guilty load , ་ Praise him ...
... thou ! that , like a meteor's fire , Shot'ft blazing forth ; difdaining dull degrees ; Shou'd I to wealth , to fame , to pow'r afpire , Muft I not pafs more rugged paths than these ? Muft I not groan beneath a guilty load , ་ Praise him ...
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bard beauty beneath bleft bloom boaſt bofom bow'r breaſt Britiſh cauſe charms chearful cou'd crown'd DAMON dear defire DELIA diſplay diſtant eaſe ELEGY ev'n ev'ry facred faid fair fame fate fav'rite fcorn fecure feem fhade fhall fhepherd fhew fhore fhou'd fhun figh fing firſt flame flow'rs fmiles focial foft fome fond fong fons foon foul friendſhip fuch fure furvey fwain fweet fwell gen'rous gentle grace grove guife lefs lov'd lyre maid mind moffy mournful mufe muſe muſt native ne'er nymph o'er paffion peace penfive plain pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe raiſe reign rife rofe roſe rural ſcene ſcorn ſhade ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhore ſkies ſky ſmile ſpring ſtep ſtore ſtrain ſtream ſweet taſte tear tender thee theſe thine thoſe thou thro toils tow'ring Twas virtue whofe whoſe wiſh wou'd youth
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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...