Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 9John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 páginas |
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... happy land . Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore , And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains . This ...
... happy land . Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore , And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound , And rich men flock from all the world around . Yet count our gains . This ...
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... happy scenes bestow , And for a moment lull the sense of woe . At length awaking , with contemptuous frown , Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town . Since worth , he cries , in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of ...
... happy scenes bestow , And for a moment lull the sense of woe . At length awaking , with contemptuous frown , Indignant Thales eyes the neighb'ring town . Since worth , he cries , in these degenerate days Wants even the cheap reward of ...
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... happy fav'rites , see ! Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me ! London ! the needy villain's gen'ral home , The common - sewer of Paris and of Rome ; With eager thirst , by folly or by fate , Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted ...
... happy fav'rites , see ! Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me ! London ! the needy villain's gen'ral home , The common - sewer of Paris and of Rome ; With eager thirst , by folly or by fate , Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted ...
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... happy seats explore , And bear oppression's insolence no more . This mournful truth is every where confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd : But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where looks are merchandise , and ...
... happy seats explore , And bear oppression's insolence no more . This mournful truth is every where confess'd , Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd : But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where looks are merchandise , and ...
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... happy seat ! Look round the smiling land , such numbers rise We hardly fix , bewilder'd in our choice . See where enthron'd in adamantine state , - Proud of her bards , imperial Windsor sits ; -BOOK I. ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH . 81.
... happy seat ! Look round the smiling land , such numbers rise We hardly fix , bewilder'd in our choice . See where enthron'd in adamantine state , - Proud of her bards , imperial Windsor sits ; -BOOK I. ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH . 81.
Termos e frases comuns
beauty beneath blank verse blest bliss blood bloom bow'rs breast breath charms cheerful chyle clime David Garrick deep delight distant divine Earth Eurus ev'n ev'ry fame fancy fate fav'rite fear feel fire folly frown gale grace green groves grow heart Heaven honour hope horrour hour joys labour land lov'd luxury lyre mind mirth Muse Naiad Nature Nature's never night o'er once pain pale peace Pembroke College pensive plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rapture reign repose rise round sacred Saracen SATIRE OF JUVENAL scarce scene scorn shades shine shore skies sleep slow smile soft song soon soul sound spread spring Stoops to Conquer strain stream supply'd sweet SWEET Auburn sweet oblivion taste tender thee thine Thomas Warton thou toil torpid truth vale virtue wanton waste wave wealth wild winds youth
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Página 19 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 11 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 208 - Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly, as the precept were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she.
Página 18 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 30 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore : Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...
Página 284 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 10 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Página 208 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away...
Página 211 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 26 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose...