Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller, and Goldsmith's Deserted village |
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To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire , 110 But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion ...
To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire , 110 But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion ...
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Who saw its fires here rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end : Alas , what wonder ? map's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art : 40 But when his own great work is but begun ...
Who saw its fires here rise , and there descend , Explain his own beginning , or his end : Alas , what wonder ? map's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art : 40 But when his own great work is but begun ...
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He from the wand'ring furrow call'd their food , Taught to command the fire , control the flood , 220 Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch th ' aerial eagle to the ground , Till strooping , sick'ning , dying , they ...
He from the wand'ring furrow call'd their food , Taught to command the fire , control the flood , 220 Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch th ' aerial eagle to the ground , Till strooping , sick'ning , dying , they ...
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Shall burning Ætna , if a sage requires , Forget to thunder , and recal her fires ? On air or sea new motions be imprest , 125 Oh , blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high , Shall ...
Shall burning Ætna , if a sage requires , Forget to thunder , and recal her fires ? On air or sea new motions be imprest , 125 Oh , blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high , Shall ...
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Escap'd thy rifling hand : —from stubborn shrubs Thou wrung'st their shy retiring virtues out , And vex'd them in the fire : nor fly nor insect , Nor writhy snake , escap'd thy deep research . But why this apparatus ? why this cost ?
Escap'd thy rifling hand : —from stubborn shrubs Thou wrung'st their shy retiring virtues out , And vex'd them in the fire : nor fly nor insect , Nor writhy snake , escap'd thy deep research . But why this apparatus ? why this cost ?
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alike beneath blessing blest bliss breast charms common creature death earth ease EPISTLE equal ev'ry faith fall fame fear fire fool force forms gives grave grow half hand happiness head heart Heav'n honour hope hour human Italy kind kings land laws leave less lies lives looks lord luxury man's mankind means mind nature nature's never o'er once pain pass passions perfect pleasure poem poor pow'r pride principle proud reason rest rich rise rose round seen Self-love sense shade side smiling society soul sound spread stand strength strong sweet tell thee thine thing thou thro toil true truth turns universal unknown vice village virtue weak wealth whole wise wish
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Página 88 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 86 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Página 114 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Página 18 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 112 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 14 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 115 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 118 - And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Página 85 - And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight...