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Página 20
A race unconquer ' d , by their clime made bold , The Caledonians , arm ' d with
want , and cold , Have , by a fate indulgent to your fame , Been from all ages kept
for you to tame . Prefer ' d by conquest , happily o ' erthrown , Falling they rise , to
...
A race unconquer ' d , by their clime made bold , The Caledonians , arm ' d with
want , and cold , Have , by a fate indulgent to your fame , Been from all ages kept
for you to tame . Prefer ' d by conquest , happily o ' erthrown , Falling they rise , to
...
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Pride drew him in , as cheats their bubbles catch , And made him venture to be
made a wretch . His wisdom did his happiness destroy , Aiming to know what
world he should enjoy ; And wit was his vain frivolous pretence , Of pleasing
others at ...
Pride drew him in , as cheats their bubbles catch , And made him venture to be
made a wretch . His wisdom did his happiness destroy , Aiming to know what
world he should enjoy ; And wit was his vain frivolous pretence , Of pleasing
others at ...
Página 122
The maker justly claims that world he made , In this the right of Providence is laid
: Its secret majesty through all depends On using second means to work his ends
: " Tis thus , withdrawn in state from human eye , ? The pow ' r exerts his ...
The maker justly claims that world he made , In this the right of Providence is laid
: Its secret majesty through all depends On using second means to work his ends
: " Tis thus , withdrawn in state from human eye , ? The pow ' r exerts his ...
Página 228
Nor think this hate commencing in my breast Though prudence long its latent
force suppress ' d ; I knew those wrongs that I was forc ' d to bear And curs ' d
those chains injustice made me wear . For could ' st thou hope Roxana to
deceive With ...
Nor think this hate commencing in my breast Though prudence long its latent
force suppress ' d ; I knew those wrongs that I was forc ' d to bear And curs ' d
those chains injustice made me wear . For could ' st thou hope Roxana to
deceive With ...
Página 252
Have made a soldier sigh , a lover swear . And oh ! what makes the
disappointement hard , ' Twas my own lord that drew the fatal card . In
complaisance I took the queen he gave ; Though my own secret wish was for the
knave . The knave ...
Have made a soldier sigh , a lover swear . And oh ! what makes the
disappointement hard , ' Twas my own lord that drew the fatal card . In
complaisance I took the queen he gave ; Though my own secret wish was for the
knave . The knave ...
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Página 188 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay: If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way.
Página 78 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página 332 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 80 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Página 354 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Página 374 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 333 - Ah little think they, while 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. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
Página 34 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 208 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show...
Página 368 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...