An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection: with Several Pieces Never Before Published. A New Ed., Including Pieces Not in the Former Edition, and Several Never Before Printed, Band 2J. Debrett, 1786 |
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... quick obedience flew . But as all joys are mix'd with care , He fancies now it scarce was fair ; ( Hard fate ! if spite of follies past He for a fharper pass at last :) B 2 Yet Yet if he knew in Fortune's scale Superior beauty would [ 7 ]
... quick obedience flew . But as all joys are mix'd with care , He fancies now it scarce was fair ; ( Hard fate ! if spite of follies past He for a fharper pass at last :) B 2 Yet Yet if he knew in Fortune's scale Superior beauty would [ 7 ]
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... fate to prove ,. Yet know no lenient power can bring relief ? Ah , what of happiness I've loft by love ! Rash hapless youth ! But the storm raves no more ; Peaceful in duft , the long long night you sleep : Remorse , despair , e'en love ...
... fate to prove ,. Yet know no lenient power can bring relief ? Ah , what of happiness I've loft by love ! Rash hapless youth ! But the storm raves no more ; Peaceful in duft , the long long night you sleep : Remorse , despair , e'en love ...
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But why should I my Werter's fate lament ? His foul to happier realms has wing'd its way , And while I weep in these close limits pent , Basks in the fplendor of eternal day . Away with forrow's unavailing figh ! My lot is cast . Within ...
But why should I my Werter's fate lament ? His foul to happier realms has wing'd its way , And while I weep in these close limits pent , Basks in the fplendor of eternal day . Away with forrow's unavailing figh ! My lot is cast . Within ...
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... fate , And the fad tale of Thebes divine ; Where elegance and ftrength combin'd To ravish and astound the mind With ftrains like thofe that charm'd th ' Athenian throng , When the full chorus rofe to all the power of fong .. E PODE I. O ...
... fate , And the fad tale of Thebes divine ; Where elegance and ftrength combin'd To ravish and astound the mind With ftrains like thofe that charm'd th ' Athenian throng , When the full chorus rofe to all the power of fong .. E PODE I. O ...
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... fate to prove His guilt , whom hunger , or whom love Prick'd forth to rob , or ravish ; How gravely wife I look'd , and big , Scarce envying e'en a judge's wig Of curls and powder lavish ! III . How , 2 How , 1II . when the conscious ...
... fate to prove His guilt , whom hunger , or whom love Prick'd forth to rob , or ravish ; How gravely wife I look'd , and big , Scarce envying e'en a judge's wig Of curls and powder lavish ! III . How , 2 How , 1II . when the conscious ...
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Seite 86 - E'er left himself behind ? The restless thought and wayward will, And discontent attend him still, Nor quit him while he lives ; At sea, care follows in the wind ; At land, it mounts the pad behind, Or with the post-boy drives.
Seite 64 - ... both myself and Mr. Banks, when particular persons have been pointed out to us as members of the Arreoy, have questioned them about it, and received the account that has been here given from their own lips. They have acknowledged that they had long been of this...
Seite 42 - ... lamentations, earnestly imploring the operator to desist. He was, however, inexorable ; and when she began to struggle, she was held down by two women, who sometimes soothed and sometimes chid her, and now and then, when she was most unruly, gave her a smart blow. Mr. Banks staid in a neighbouring house an hour, and the operation was not over when he went away...
Seite 57 - Freeman and soldier was their common name, Who late with reapers to the furrow came, Now in the front of battle charged the foe: Who taught the steer the wintry plough to endure, Now in full councils check'd encroaching power, And gave the guardian laws their majesty to know.
Seite 258 - But to fancy that feeds on the charms of the fair, The death of reflection's the birth of all woe ! What...
Seite 86 - By heaven's eternal doom. To ripen'd age, Clive liv'd renown'd, With lacks enrich'd, with honours crown'd...
Seite 87 - His valour's well-earn'd meed ; Too long, alas ! he liv'd, to hate His envied lot, and died too late From life's oppression freed. An early death was Elliott's doom, J saw his opening virtues bloom, And manly sense unfold ; Too soon to fade ! I bade the stone Record his name * 'midst hordes unknown, Unknowing what it told.
Seite 85 - Nor av'rice fends him forth in queft Of climes beneath the fun. Short is our fpan, then why engage In fchemes, for which man's...
Seite 206 - Thro' glens untrod, and woods that frown'd on high, Two sleeping nymphs, with wonder mute I spy : — And lo ! she's gone — in robe of dark green hue 'Twas Echo from her sister Silence flew : For quick the hunter's horn resounded to the sky.
Seite 42 - This, in both sexes, is covered with a deep black ; above which, arches are drawn one over another as high as the short ribs.