Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... turn of thought Will please you then ! Alas , how dull and poor , Ev'n to yourselves , will your lewd flights appear ! How will you envy then the happy fate Of idiots ! and perhaps in vain you'll wish You'd been as very fools , as once ...
... turn of thought Will please you then ! Alas , how dull and poor , Ev'n to yourselves , will your lewd flights appear ! How will you envy then the happy fate Of idiots ! and perhaps in vain you'll wish You'd been as very fools , as once ...
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... turns wise men backward , and their knowledge becomes foolish . " His transcendent eminence above all things is most ... turn our eyes now to some of the holy writings , where God is creating the world : How meanly do the best of the ...
... turns wise men backward , and their knowledge becomes foolish . " His transcendent eminence above all things is most ... turn our eyes now to some of the holy writings , where God is creating the world : How meanly do the best of the ...
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... Turns the earth iron , and makes the ocean glass , Arrests the dancing rivulets as they pass , And chains them ... Turn cities into heaps , and make our beds our graves ! While you dispense your mortal harms , ' Tis the Creator's ...
... Turns the earth iron , and makes the ocean glass , Arrests the dancing rivulets as they pass , And chains them ... Turn cities into heaps , and make our beds our graves ! While you dispense your mortal harms , ' Tis the Creator's ...
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... Turn , turn away thine eyes , Ascend the azure hills , and shine Among the happy tenants of the skies , They can sustain a vision so divine . O turn thy lovely glories from me , The joys are too intense , the glories overcome me . If he ...
... Turn , turn away thine eyes , Ascend the azure hills , and shine Among the happy tenants of the skies , They can sustain a vision so divine . O turn thy lovely glories from me , The joys are too intense , the glories overcome me . If he ...
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... turning the dull Stoics o'er ; Let pedants waste their hours of ease To sweat all night at Socrates ; And feed their ... turn among the tombs , And see whereto all glory comes : There the vile foot of every clown Tramples the sons of ...
... turning the dull Stoics o'er ; Let pedants waste their hours of ease To sweat all night at Socrates ; And feed their ... turn among the tombs , And see whereto all glory comes : There the vile foot of every clown Tramples the sons of ...
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...