A Collection of Poems: In Six Volumes, Nide 1J. Hughs, 1765 |
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Sivu 13
... scenes less nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious Mufe delight , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs ...
... scenes less nobly bright , Far humbler thoughts th ' inglorious Mufe delight , Content to see the horrors of the field By plough - fhares levell'd , or in flow'rs conceal'd . O'er shatter'd walls may creeping ivy twine , And grafs ...
Sivu 20
... scene shall footh thy foul to reft , And wear each dreadful image from thy breaft ; With pleasure , by thy conquefts fhalt thou fee Thy Queen triumphant , and all Europe free ; No cares henceforth fhall thy repose destroy , But what ...
... scene shall footh thy foul to reft , And wear each dreadful image from thy breaft ; With pleasure , by thy conquefts fhalt thou fee Thy Queen triumphant , and all Europe free ; No cares henceforth fhall thy repose destroy , But what ...
Sivu 52
... scene of wars , and ftain'd with lovers ' blood . You , who through gazing crowds , your captive throng , Throw pangs and paffions , as you move along , Turn on the left , ye fair , your radiant eyes , Where all unlevell'd the gay ...
... scene of wars , and ftain'd with lovers ' blood . You , who through gazing crowds , your captive throng , Throw pangs and paffions , as you move along , Turn on the left , ye fair , your radiant eyes , Where all unlevell'd the gay ...
Sivu 73
... scenes , He builds a city as he plants his greens . With a fad pleasure the aërial maid This image of her ancient realm survey'd ; How chang'd , how fallen from its primæval pride ! Yet here each moon , the hour her lover dy'd , Each ...
... scenes , He builds a city as he plants his greens . With a fad pleasure the aërial maid This image of her ancient realm survey'd ; How chang'd , how fallen from its primæval pride ! Yet here each moon , the hour her lover dy'd , Each ...
Sivu 87
... scene , His looks as chearfully ferene , The routed battle to pursue , As once adorn'd the Paphian queen , When to her Thracian paramour she flew . The gath'ring troops he kens from far , And with a bridegroom's paffion and delight ...
... scene , His looks as chearfully ferene , The routed battle to pursue , As once adorn'd the Paphian queen , When to her Thracian paramour she flew . The gath'ring troops he kens from far , And with a bridegroom's paffion and delight ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
æther becauſe beneath beſt bleffings bleft boaſt breaſt Britiſh charms defire diftant eaſe endleſs Engliſh Ev'n eyes facred fafe fair falſe fame fate fecret feem fenfe fhade fhall fhew fhun fide filent fing firſt fkies flain fmile foes foft fome fons foon foul fpring ftill fuch fweet Gaul grace Grongar Hill happineſs heart heav'n houſe joys juſt kings laſt leaſt lefs loft mind moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt ne'er nymph o'er paffion pain pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe pride proud purſue quæ quid rage raiſe reafon reſt rife riſe ſcene ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhine ſhould ſkies ſkill ſmile ſome ſpeak Spleen ſpread ſtage ſtands ſtars ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtood ſtream ſtrength ſtrive ſtrong ſweet taſte thee theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tow'rs Unleſs uſe virtue whofe Whoſe wife wiſh youth
Suositut otteet
Sivu 260 - While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprize...
Sivu 30 - There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Sivu 215 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast.
Sivu 231 - Grongar Hill Silent nymph! with curious eye Who the purple evening lie On the mountain's lonely van Beyond the noise of busy man, Painting fair the form of things...
Sivu 209 - This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways.
Sivu 261 - ... green, On which the tribe their gambols do display ; And at the door...
Sivu 217 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Sivu 131 - To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, Some recommend the bowling-green ; Some, hilly walks ; all, exercise ; Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Laugh and be well. Monkeys have been Extreme good doctors for the Spleen ; And kitten, if the humour hit, Has harlequin'd away the fit.
Sivu 234 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now th...
Sivu 265 - On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.