Poems on Various Subjects, Volum 1J. Stockdale, 1787 |
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Pàgina 54
... death itself despise : Will from each trying woe , like heated gold , With greater fplendor , greater merit rife . 1 There she has ever fix'd her firmeft throne ; There fcorn'd the bolts by rage and malice hurl'd ; And , found by wifdom ...
... death itself despise : Will from each trying woe , like heated gold , With greater fplendor , greater merit rife . 1 There she has ever fix'd her firmeft throne ; There fcorn'd the bolts by rage and malice hurl'd ; And , found by wifdom ...
Pàgina 58
... when the wintry ftorms of death are paft , In brighter skies , and ether more ferene , Thy wither'd boughs fhall bud again , to last For ever blooming , and for ever green . ELEGY EL EGY III . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1763 . 58 ELE GIE S.
... when the wintry ftorms of death are paft , In brighter skies , and ether more ferene , Thy wither'd boughs fhall bud again , to last For ever blooming , and for ever green . ELEGY EL EGY III . WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1763 . 58 ELE GIE S.
Pàgina 61
... Death : Still must I love , even in that fatal hour , And call on DELIA with my latest breath . And when all pale my lifeless limbs extend , And fate has feal'd the irrevocable doom , May then my memory find a faithful friend , To write ...
... Death : Still must I love , even in that fatal hour , And call on DELIA with my latest breath . And when all pale my lifeless limbs extend , And fate has feal'd the irrevocable doom , May then my memory find a faithful friend , To write ...
Pàgina 64
... death fhall close the dreary eve . This day fell man , whofe unrelenting hate No grief can foften , and no tears affuage , • Pours dire deftruction on the feather'd state , • While pride and rapine urge his favage rage . I , who so oft ...
... death fhall close the dreary eve . This day fell man , whofe unrelenting hate No grief can foften , and no tears affuage , • Pours dire deftruction on the feather'd state , • While pride and rapine urge his favage rage . I , who so oft ...
Pàgina 65
Henry James Pye. In vain the mother wings her whirring flight , The leaden deaths arreft her as fhe flies ; Her fcatter'd offspring fwim before her fight , And , bath'd in blood , fhe flutters , pants , and dies . VOL . I. F ELEGY ELE GY ...
Henry James Pye. In vain the mother wings her whirring flight , The leaden deaths arreft her as fhe flies ; Her fcatter'd offspring fwim before her fight , And , bath'd in blood , fhe flutters , pants , and dies . VOL . I. F ELEGY ELE GY ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 201 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Pàgina 255 - Not thus the foe: his javelin aim'd above The buckler's margin, at the neck he drove. But Greece, now trembling for her hero's life, Bade share the honours, and surcease the strife.
Pàgina 121 - Your fatal weapon gives the fureft blow; Draw quick! — yet fteady care with quicknefs join, Left the fhock'd barrel deviate from the line; So fhall fuccefs your ardent wifhes pay, And fure deftruction wait the flying prey.
Pàgina 246 - Muse, thy sounding bow; Say through what paths of liquid air Our arrows shall we throw ? On Agrigentum fix thine eye, Thither let all thy quiver fly. And thou, O Agrigentum, hear, While with religious dread, And taught the laws of...
Pàgina 63 - In falt'ring accents fung this plaintive ftrain. ' Unwelcome morn! full well thy low'ring mien, ' Foretells the flaughters of the approaching day; ' The gloomy fky laments with tears the fcene, ' Where pale -eyed terror re-aftumes her fway.
Pàgina 122 - And fure deftruction wait the flying prey. As glory more than gain allures the brave To dare the combat loud, and louder wave ; So the ambition of the Sportfman lies More in the certain fhot than bleeding prize.
Pàgina 64 - She faid; when lo! the Pointer winds his prey The ruftling ftubble gives the fear'd alarm; The gunner views the covey fleet away And rears th' unerring tube with fkilful arm.
Pàgina 147 - To bring the percher from th' aerial bough. How fhall his thoughts the level that prepare With all the caution of mechanic care...
Pàgina 121 - Purfue the fleeting mark with fteady aim. By temperate thought your glowing paffions cool, And bow the fwelling heart to Reafon's rule; Elfe when the whirring pinion, as it flies, Alarms your ftartled ear, and dazzled eyes, Unguided by the cautious arm of care> Your random bolts fhall wafte their force in air, They rife! they rife! Ah yet your fire...
Pàgina 64 - The dreadful tale experience tells believe; « Dark heavy mifts obfcure the morning's face ' But blood and death fhall clofe the dreary eve.