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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... youth ! But the storm raves no more ; Peaceful in duft , the long long night you sleep : Remorse , despair , e'en love with you is o'er , While Charlotte ftill endures - to wake and weep . Say , from yon hoary steep that braves the ...
... youth ! But the storm raves no more ; Peaceful in duft , the long long night you sleep : Remorse , despair , e'en love with you is o'er , While Charlotte ftill endures - to wake and weep . Say , from yon hoary steep that braves the ...
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... Youth's vigorous , unabated hours . O blind to think fuch bleffings given By fav'ring heayen To fleep for years , Like the dull lamps in Sepulchres , Which never , ' till decay'd , fhew the pale fires That struggles into day , to ...
... Youth's vigorous , unabated hours . O blind to think fuch bleffings given By fav'ring heayen To fleep for years , Like the dull lamps in Sepulchres , Which never , ' till decay'd , fhew the pale fires That struggles into day , to ...
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... youth ! whofe retrospective eye , Thro ' the long annals of his race , Can no inherent stain espy To tinge with fhame his glowing face ! For ftill each fire his offspring's breast With every gen'rous paffion fraught , While his own life ...
... youth ! whofe retrospective eye , Thro ' the long annals of his race , Can no inherent stain espy To tinge with fhame his glowing face ! For ftill each fire his offspring's breast With every gen'rous paffion fraught , While his own life ...
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... youth . For her , where lingering on in many a maze Their humid train the waves of Ifis wreathe , The tuneful forrows of these tender lays , With many a hope , and many a fear , I breathe ; And oft the while , my head in grief declin'd ...
... youth . For her , where lingering on in many a maze Their humid train the waves of Ifis wreathe , The tuneful forrows of these tender lays , With many a hope , and many a fear , I breathe ; And oft the while , my head in grief declin'd ...
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... youth impatient ( k ) clafps the beauteous prize , Lufty and brown ( almost your Ch — ly's fize ) . ( b ) This fingular and furprifing velocity of their pofteriors is efteemed a mark of the highest respect and loyalty , and is folely ...
... youth impatient ( k ) clafps the beauteous prize , Lufty and brown ( almost your Ch — ly's fize ) . ( b ) This fingular and furprifing velocity of their pofteriors is efteemed a mark of the highest respect and loyalty , and is folely ...
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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.