Musae Seatonianae: A Complete Collection of the Cambridge Prize Poems, from the First Institution of that Premium by Tho. Seaton, in 1750, to the Present Time ...Pearch, 1772 - 334 ページ |
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adamantine æther Angels awful bafe beam Behold beneath bleffed bleft blifs bluſhing boafted boaſt breaſt breath bright Burft call'd CHARLES JENNER Cherubs CHRISTOPHER SMART clouds courfe courſe Dæmon darkneſs Death deep dire dread Earth endleſs Epicurus erft eternal ev'n ev'ry everlaſting facred fhade fhall fighs fing flame flow'rs fmiles folemn fome fong fons form'd foul ftill ftream fuch fweet fwelling glory guilt hand heart Heav'n heav'nly himſelf hoft holy immortal impious juft Juftice King light loft Luft M. A. M DCC Mercy muſt Nature's ne'er numbers o'er Paffions Pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride rage rais'd raiſe rife rofe ſcene Seraphs ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſkies ſpread ſtand ſtarting ſteps ſtill ſtrain SUPREME ſweet tears thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro throne trembling truth Twas univerfal Virtue voice Weft Whilft whofe whoſe wild wings Wiſdom wrath
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133 ページ - At thy good time Let Death approach ; I reck not — let him but come In genuine form, not with thy vengeance arm'd, Too much for man to bear. O rather lend Thy kindly aid to mitigate his stroke...
127 ページ - Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on Inhumanly ingenious to find out New pains for life, new terrors for the grave. Artificers of Death ! Still monarchs dream Of universal empire growing up From universal ruin. Blast the design, Great God of Hosts, nor let thy creatures fall Unpitied victims at Ambition's shrine...
126 ページ - God ablmril : with violence rude to break The thread of life ere half its length was run, And rob a wretched brother of his being. With joy Ambition saw, and soon improvM The execrable deed.
26 ページ - Her own prophetic soul is active in her, And more than human providence her guard. . When Philomela, ere the cold domain Of crippled Winter 'gins t' advance, prepares Her annual flight, and in some poplar shade Takes her melodious leave, who then 's her pilot?
63 ページ - Their voices tun'd to transport, wing'd their flight, And bade them call for nurture, and receive : And lo ! they call, the blackbird and the thrush, The woodlark and the redbreast jointly call ; HE hears, and feeds their...
129 ページ - ... life the stripling darts, Gay as the morn ; bright glows the vernal sky.
vii ページ - Judgment, Heaven, Hell, Purity of heart, &c. or whatever else may be judged by the Vice-Chancellor, Master of Clare Hall, and Greek Professor to be most conducive to the honour of the Supreme Being and recommendation of Virtue.
36 ページ - O, be still, ye boisterous winds,' he cry'd, And not a breath was blown, nor murmur heard. His was a life of miracles and might, And charity and love, ere yet he taste The bitter draught of death, ere yet he rise Victorious o'er the universal foe, And Death, and Sin and Hell in triumph lead. His by the right of...
vi ページ - Which three persons aforesaid shall give out a subject, which subject shall, for the first year be one or other of the perfections or attributes of the Supreme Being, and...
134 ページ - To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And oh ! still harder lesson ! how to die ; Disdain not Thou to smooth the restless bed Of Sickness and of Pain. Forgive the tear That feeble Nature drops, calm all her fears, Wake all her hopes, and animate her faith, Till my rapt soul, anticipating Heav'n, Bursts from the thraldom of incumb'ring clay, And on the wing of ecstasy upborne, Springs into Liberty, and Light, and Life.