Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 |
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... youth , And when how purated his blooms of IT bridge , this poet was extremely beautiful . Wan- dering one day , during the fummer , far beyond the precincts of the University , into the country , he became fo heated and fatigued , that ...
... youth , And when how purated his blooms of IT bridge , this poet was extremely beautiful . Wan- dering one day , during the fummer , far beyond the precincts of the University , into the country , he became fo heated and fatigued , that ...
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... youth , And point their motions to the paths of truth . Protect me by thy providential care , And teach my foul t ' avoid the tempter's fnare . Thro ' all the various fcenes of human life , In calms of eafe , or bluft'ring storms of ...
... youth , And point their motions to the paths of truth . Protect me by thy providential care , And teach my foul t ' avoid the tempter's fnare . Thro ' all the various fcenes of human life , In calms of eafe , or bluft'ring storms of ...
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... youth , that they may beware of that rock on which thousands , from race to race , contínue to split . The love of pleasure , natural to man in every period of his life , glows at this age with exceffive ardour . Novelty adds fresh ...
... youth , that they may beware of that rock on which thousands , from race to race , contínue to split . The love of pleasure , natural to man in every period of his life , glows at this age with exceffive ardour . Novelty adds fresh ...
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... youth like a flow'r Cut down ; do coffins , graves , and tolling bells Warn thee in vain ? In palaces and cells , The heights of life above , the vales beneath , In towns and fields , we ev'ry where meet death . In death's uncertainty ...
... youth like a flow'r Cut down ; do coffins , graves , and tolling bells Warn thee in vain ? In palaces and cells , The heights of life above , the vales beneath , In towns and fields , we ev'ry where meet death . In death's uncertainty ...
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... youth is condemned by nature , as necef- sary to its fecurity from evils into which it would be otherwise precipitated , by the rashness of paf- fion , and the blindness of ignorance . Every old man complains of the growing de- pravity ...
... youth is condemned by nature , as necef- sary to its fecurity from evils into which it would be otherwise precipitated , by the rashness of paf- fion , and the blindness of ignorance . Every old man complains of the growing de- pravity ...
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Página 229 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 231 - Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Página 140 - cease your pother ; The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night And viewed it o'er by candle-light : I marked it well ; 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.' — ' Pray, sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue.
Página 191 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
Página 139 - gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Página 191 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Página 177 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Página 227 - 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.
Página 20 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...