Specimens of the British Poets ...W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... nature's plaint ; When she had lost the perfect mould , The like to whom she could not paint . With wringing hands how she did cry ! And what she said I know it , I : I know she swore , with raging mind , Her kingdom only set apart ...
... nature's plaint ; When she had lost the perfect mould , The like to whom she could not paint . With wringing hands how she did cry ! And what she said I know it , I : I know she swore , with raging mind , Her kingdom only set apart ...
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... nature still to fly , First did with puffing kiss those locks display . She , so dishevell'd , blush'd : from window I , With sight thereof , cried out - O fair disgrace , Let honour's self to thee grant highest place ! SONNET . E your ...
... nature still to fly , First did with puffing kiss those locks display . She , so dishevell'd , blush'd : from window I , With sight thereof , cried out - O fair disgrace , Let honour's self to thee grant highest place ! SONNET . E your ...
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... nature clothes the ground in green , To glad our lovely summer queen . The groves put on their rich array , With hawthorn - blooms embroider'd gay , And sweet - perfumed with eglantine , To glad our lovely summer queen . The silent ...
... nature clothes the ground in green , To glad our lovely summer queen . The groves put on their rich array , With hawthorn - blooms embroider'd gay , And sweet - perfumed with eglantine , To glad our lovely summer queen . The silent ...
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... nature of decay , Tell friendship of unkindness , Tell justice of delay . And if they dare reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming , Tell schools they want profoundness , And stand ...
... nature of decay , Tell friendship of unkindness , Tell justice of delay . And if they dare reply , Then give them all the lie . Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming , Tell schools they want profoundness , And stand ...
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... Nature , in her best attire , Pours forth sweet odors and alluring sights ; And Art , with her contending , doth aspire T excel the natural with made delights ; And all that fair or pleasant may be found In riotous excess doth there ...
... Nature , in her best attire , Pours forth sweet odors and alluring sights ; And Art , with her contending , doth aspire T excel the natural with made delights ; And all that fair or pleasant may be found In riotous excess doth there ...
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Arachne azure rays beauteous beauty birds breast breath bright Castara charms Corydon crown'd Cupid dear death delight dight doth e'er earth eccho ring eyes face fair fame fancy fate fear flame flowers gentle GEORGE GASCOIGNE give goddess golden goodly grace grief ground hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven heavenly Hecat's honour Hymen Jove king kiss light live lov'd love's lovely band lover Lubberkin lute lyre maid mighty mind Muse ne'er never night numbers Nut-brown Maid nymph o'er Pallas passion pity pleasures poets praise pride rage rose shade shepherd shine sighs sight sing sleep smile soft SONG SONNETS sorrow soul spide sung swain sweet tears Tell Tereu thee thine things thou art thou dost thought Twas unto vermil virtue wanton ween Whilst wind wings woods youth
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Seite 216 - Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell, To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Seite 183 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Seite 38 - There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Seite 18 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted...
Seite 40 - Say to the court, it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction.
Seite 210 - TwAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Seite 190 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish...
Seite 216 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Seite 182 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first, and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation...
Seite 223 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.