A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several SubjectsJohn White, 1731 - 176 sivua |
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Sivu xv
... Muse , or lift her Voice [ to Fame ; On Hills remote , the northern Shep- Lherd fings , Not lefs Variety , nor fewer Springs ; As many Suns diverfify our Year , Nor want we Shade or Summer Zephyr here . Thou , Thou , whom kind Nature ...
... Muse , or lift her Voice [ to Fame ; On Hills remote , the northern Shep- Lherd fings , Not lefs Variety , nor fewer Springs ; As many Suns diverfify our Year , Nor want we Shade or Summer Zephyr here . Thou , Thou , whom kind Nature ...
Sivu 19
... Muses with their Art inspire , Soft melting Numbers , and a flowing Fire ; Whofe Wit not strikes us with a short - liv'd Flame , But always Charms , and always is the same . Hark , while the Mufe rehearses Thyrfis ' Song , Which thus in ...
... Muses with their Art inspire , Soft melting Numbers , and a flowing Fire ; Whofe Wit not strikes us with a short - liv'd Flame , But always Charms , and always is the same . Hark , while the Mufe rehearses Thyrfis ' Song , Which thus in ...
Sivu 35
... Muse a loftier Strain , Sublimer lift the Mufick of the Plain ; The Theme commands . I fing the [ Spouse ( of old , In Song infpir'd , and facred Numbers [ told . ) All plaintive laid in Sharon's flow'ry Grove , Thus moan'd in Abfence ...
... Muse a loftier Strain , Sublimer lift the Mufick of the Plain ; The Theme commands . I fing the [ Spouse ( of old , In Song infpir'd , and facred Numbers [ told . ) All plaintive laid in Sharon's flow'ry Grove , Thus moan'd in Abfence ...
Sivu 78
... Muse be backward then , to raise Thy Name encreafing , and thy growing Praise ; To future Times shall she thy Fame prolong , In deathlefs Verfe , if Deathlefs be my Song . And tho ' each Stroke fhall fade , thy Skill could give ; Still ...
... Muse be backward then , to raise Thy Name encreafing , and thy growing Praise ; To future Times shall she thy Fame prolong , In deathlefs Verfe , if Deathlefs be my Song . And tho ' each Stroke fhall fade , thy Skill could give ; Still ...
Sivu 121
... Friend ! at whose Desire , I call upon the MUSE , and court her Fire : If thou approv'ft , I care not who condemn , ९ The Rage of Coxcombs is the Road to Fame . I 4 O bear A O Bear me far from Scenes of anxious Strife POEMS . 121.
... Friend ! at whose Desire , I call upon the MUSE , and court her Fire : If thou approv'ft , I care not who condemn , ९ The Rage of Coxcombs is the Road to Fame . I 4 O bear A O Bear me far from Scenes of anxious Strife POEMS . 121.
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Abfence arife Beauties Bleffings bleft Blifs Bloom blooming Groves Bofom Breaſt bright caft Charms DAMON Daphnis dear Defire Delight diff'rent Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fame feems felf fhall fhining fhould figh'd fince fing Fire firſt Flame flow flow'ry fmile foft fome foon ftill fuch fweet fwell gen'rous Genius Glories glow Groves happy Heart Heav'n heav'nly Hills John Joys juſt lafting laſt lefs lov'd Love Mankind melting Mind moſt Mount Ida mourn Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er Numbers Nymph o'er OENONE OVID Paffion Paftoral Pain PARIS Plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praife Praiſe PRIAM purſue Rapture raviſh'd rife Robert Rofe Scenes Seafon Senfe Shades ſhall ſhe Shepherd ſhine Silvia's Skie Skies Song Soul ſtay ſtill Streams STREPHON Swain tender thee thefe theſe Things feel thofe Thomas thoſe thou Thought thouſand thro Verfe Verſe VIRG whofe Whoſe William Youth
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Sivu viii - ... wing, (Her guide now lost) no more attempts to rise, But in low numbers short excursions tries: Content, if hence, th...
Sivu 129 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Sivu vi - Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs ; A fool might once himfelf alone expofe, Now one in verfe makes many more in profe. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go juft alike, yet each believes his own.
Sivu 154 - Flocks, fecms to be the firft Employment of Mankind, the moft antient Sort of Poetry, was probably Paftoral : 'Tis natural to imagine, that the Leifure of thofe antient Shepherds requiring fome Diverfion, none was fo proper to that folitary Life, as finging, and that in their Songs, they took Occafion...
Sivu 101 - No doleful fighs in airy circles rove, But all be rapture, blifs, and joy and love ; Without a ruffle, ev'ry moment flow, More gentle than the fofteft breezes blow.
Sivu xv - Rofes in Hedges, King-cups on the green, Birds in the Woods, and Larks upon the Skies, Say, is't not Spring that makes you all rejoyce?
Sivu 33 - Swell'd to my Eyes, and melted out in Tears; " My trembling Limbs could fcarce my Weight fuftain, " And Life furpriz'd, ftood paufing with the Pain.
Sivu 30 - Place for Contemplation, or for Care, To lift the Soul, or pour out fad DeJpair ! And And here lay Cc///'», haplefs Swain!
Sivu vii - One moral, or a meer well-natur'd Deed Does all Defert in Sciences exceed. Moreover, I can ajjure all my Readers, 'who are not of my Acquaintance, that I am not extravagant...