The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for John Sharpe, 1808 |
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... face . How well the Bard obeys each valley tells , These lucid streams , gay meads , and lonely cells ; Where modest Art in silence lurks conceal'd , While Nature shines , so gracefully reveal'd , That she triumphant claims the total ...
... face . How well the Bard obeys each valley tells , These lucid streams , gay meads , and lonely cells ; Where modest Art in silence lurks conceal'd , While Nature shines , so gracefully reveal'd , That she triumphant claims the total ...
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... face , Each hill , each dale , each consecrated grove , Each lake and falling stream , his rapture move . Like the sage captive in Calypso's grot , The cares , the pleasures , of the world forgot , Of calm content he hails the genuine ...
... face , Each hill , each dale , each consecrated grove , Each lake and falling stream , his rapture move . Like the sage captive in Calypso's grot , The cares , the pleasures , of the world forgot , Of calm content he hails the genuine ...
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... face ? See her in every field - flower bloom , O'er every thicket shed perfume ? By verdant groves , and vocal hills , By mossy grots , near purling rills , Where'er you turn your wondering eyes , Behold her win without disguise . What ...
... face ? See her in every field - flower bloom , O'er every thicket shed perfume ? By verdant groves , and vocal hills , By mossy grots , near purling rills , Where'er you turn your wondering eyes , Behold her win without disguise . What ...
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... face ; Go , scorn Simplicity - but know That all our heart - felt joys below , That all which Virtue loves to name , Which Art consigns to lasting fame , Which fixes Wit or Beauty's throne , Derives its source from her alone . ARCADIO ...
... face ; Go , scorn Simplicity - but know That all our heart - felt joys below , That all which Virtue loves to name , Which Art consigns to lasting fame , Which fixes Wit or Beauty's throne , Derives its source from her alone . ARCADIO ...
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... face of the same valley , the water gliding calmly along betwixt two seeming groves without any cascade , as a con- trast to the former one , where it was broken by cascades : the scene very significantly alluded to by the motto ...
... face of the same valley , the water gliding calmly along betwixt two seeming groves without any cascade , as a con- trast to the former one , where it was broken by cascades : the scene very significantly alluded to by the motto ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
bard beauty Beauty mourns beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast breathe charms Clent hill crown'd dame Damon dear Delia delight drooping e'er Elegy envy ev'n fair faithless fame Fancy fate favour'd flame flow flow'rs fond form'd gentle glow gold grace ground grove haunts hear Heav'n hill lawn Leasowes Leather Lane lov'd lyre Lyttelton maid mind mournful Muse naiad native ne'er numbers nymph o'er pain paint path peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure polish'd pomp pow'r praise pride rill ROBERT DODSLEY rose rove rural scene scorn seat shade SHENSTONE shepherd shine shore shrubs shun sigh silvan sing skies smile soft song soul stream swain sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toils train trees tuneful Twas vale valley verdant virtue ween wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wood youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 159 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair: The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high achievements does declare; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been Kens the forth-coming rod, unpleasing sight, I ween!
Seite 44 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah ! lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn — • I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
Seite 158 - Here oft the dame, on Sabbath's decent eve, Hymned such psalms as Sternhold forth did mete, If winter 'twere, she to her hearth did cleave, But in her garden found a...
Seite 154 - AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest Worth neglected lies While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprise: Lend me thy clarion, goddess!
Seite 143 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Seite 155 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Seite 120 - If through the garden's flowery tribes I stray, Where bloom the jasmines that could once allure, "Hope not to find delight in us," they say, "For we are spotless, Jessy; we are pure.
Seite 57 - Their colours and their sash he wore, And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure, Which gives the brave the keenest wound.
Seite 45 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid. The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Seite 157 - One ancient hen she took delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favour did her past deportment claim: And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.