A Collection of Poems: Occasionally Writ on Several SubjectsJohn White, 1731 - 176 sivua |
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Sivu xii
... World : We must ook upon them as plain , innocent , unpractic'd People ; and tho ' feveral fuch may be easily i- magin'd wholly ruftick and unknowing , yet these are not to be chofen in this kind of Writing , any more than every publick ...
... World : We must ook upon them as plain , innocent , unpractic'd People ; and tho ' feveral fuch may be easily i- magin'd wholly ruftick and unknowing , yet these are not to be chofen in this kind of Writing , any more than every publick ...
Sivu xiii
... Worlds , pro- vided he proceed in a Manner that becomes his Character , and not like a Student in Sir Isaac Newton . All natural Phenomena fall as com- monly under the Obfervation of a Country Man , as any other Perfon , and the Defire ...
... Worlds , pro- vided he proceed in a Manner that becomes his Character , and not like a Student in Sir Isaac Newton . All natural Phenomena fall as com- monly under the Obfervation of a Country Man , as any other Perfon , and the Defire ...
Sivu 16
... World improve , And all Things rife in Bliss , in Life , and Love . Then come my Silvia , to my Breast come nigh ! For all Things feel the Joys of Love but 1 . WHAT holds my Dear from coming to thefe Arms ? What Pow'r ill - fated ...
... World improve , And all Things rife in Bliss , in Life , and Love . Then come my Silvia , to my Breast come nigh ! For all Things feel the Joys of Love but 1 . WHAT holds my Dear from coming to thefe Arms ? What Pow'r ill - fated ...
Sivu 28
... World adieu . DAMON . THEN fhall these Hills again repeat my Lays , And Rocks give back the Tune , as Damon plays . Bright Summer Suns fhall chear my Heart again , And Harvests bless me with their ripen'd- Grain . Forlorn , from ...
... World adieu . DAMON . THEN fhall these Hills again repeat my Lays , And Rocks give back the Tune , as Damon plays . Bright Summer Suns fhall chear my Heart again , And Harvests bless me with their ripen'd- Grain . Forlorn , from ...
Sivu 45
... World's to come . O happy Life ! * fuch blissful Years were told , When Time flid o'er on easy Wings of Gold : Ere yellow Metal learn'd in Fires to flow , Or flaming Stones were taught in Crowns to glow : When faithful Pairs in Grottos ...
... World's to come . O happy Life ! * fuch blissful Years were told , When Time flid o'er on easy Wings of Gold : Ere yellow Metal learn'd in Fires to flow , Or flaming Stones were taught in Crowns to glow : When faithful Pairs in Grottos ...
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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...