Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... breath'd eternal sweets Forbidding death and sorrow , and bestow'd Fresh heavenly bloom and gay immortal youth No so , alas ! the vile apostate race , Who in mad joys their brutal hours employ'd , Assaulting with their impious ...
... breath'd eternal sweets Forbidding death and sorrow , and bestow'd Fresh heavenly bloom and gay immortal youth No so , alas ! the vile apostate race , Who in mad joys their brutal hours employ'd , Assaulting with their impious ...
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... breath of God , the everlasting source Of love : And what is love , in souls like thipe , But air and incense to the poet's fire ? Should an expiring saint , whose swimming eyes Mingle the images of things about him , But hear the least ...
... breath of God , the everlasting source Of love : And what is love , in souls like thipe , But air and incense to the poet's fire ? Should an expiring saint , whose swimming eyes Mingle the images of things about him , But hear the least ...
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... breath Peoples the dark retreats of Death , Change your dire hissings into heavenly songs , And praise your Maker with your forked tongues . This profanation and debasement of so divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to ...
... breath Peoples the dark retreats of Death , Change your dire hissings into heavenly songs , And praise your Maker with your forked tongues . This profanation and debasement of so divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to ...
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... breath of his mouth : " This is working like a God , with infinite ease and omnipotence . His wonders of providence for the terrour and ruin of his adversaries , and for the succour of his saints , is set before our eyes in the ...
... breath of his mouth : " This is working like a God , with infinite ease and omnipotence . His wonders of providence for the terrour and ruin of his adversaries , and for the succour of his saints , is set before our eyes in the ...
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... breath of thy nostrils . " When the Holy One alighted upon Mount Sinai , " his glory covered the heavens : He stood and measured the earth : He beheld and drove asun- der the nations , and the everlasting mountains were scattered : The ...
... breath of thy nostrils . " When the Holy One alighted upon Mount Sinai , " his glory covered the heavens : He stood and measured the earth : He beheld and drove asun- der the nations , and the everlasting mountains were scattered : The ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Seite 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Seite 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Seite 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Seite 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Seite 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Seite 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Seite 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Seite 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Seite 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...