Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... sweet insinuations might almost convey piety in resisting nature , and melt the hardest souls to the love of virtue . The affairs of this life , with their re- ference to a life to come , would shine bright in a dramatic description ...
... sweet insinuations might almost convey piety in resisting nature , and melt the hardest souls to the love of virtue . The affairs of this life , with their re- ference to a life to come , would shine bright in a dramatic description ...
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... sweet the voice of pardon sounds ! Sweet the relief to deep distress : I feel the balm that heals my wounds , And all my powers adore the grace . A HYMN OF PRAISE FOR THREE GREAT SALVATIONS . VIZ . 1. From the Spanish Invasion , 1588 ...
... sweet the voice of pardon sounds ! Sweet the relief to deep distress : I feel the balm that heals my wounds , And all my powers adore the grace . A HYMN OF PRAISE FOR THREE GREAT SALVATIONS . VIZ . 1. From the Spanish Invasion , 1588 ...
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... sweet perfumes of praise . TRUE LEARNING . PARTLY IMITATED FROM A FRENCH SONNET OF M. POIRET HAPPY the feet that shining Truth has led With her own hand to tread the path she please , To see her native lustre round her spread , Without ...
... sweet perfumes of praise . TRUE LEARNING . PARTLY IMITATED FROM A FRENCH SONNET OF M. POIRET HAPPY the feet that shining Truth has led With her own hand to tread the path she please , To see her native lustre round her spread , Without ...
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... Sweet cherubs , stay , dwell here a while , And tell what Jesus did . At his command the blind awake , And feel the gladsome rays ; He bids the dumb attempt to speak , They try their tongues in praise . He shed a thousand blessings ...
... Sweet cherubs , stay , dwell here a while , And tell what Jesus did . At his command the blind awake , And feel the gladsome rays ; He bids the dumb attempt to speak , They try their tongues in praise . He shed a thousand blessings ...
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... sweet that is not laid A bait to some destructive snare ? Be gone for ever , mortal things ! Thou mighty mole - hill , Earth , farewell ! Angels aspire on lofty wings , And leave the globe for ants to dwell . Come , Heaven , and fill my ...
... sweet that is not laid A bait to some destructive snare ? Be gone for ever , mortal things ! Thou mighty mole - hill , Earth , farewell ! Angels aspire on lofty wings , And leave the globe for ants to dwell . Come , Heaven , and fill my ...
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...