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AARON HILL Agamemnon Allan Ramsay ALPHEUS FELCH arts beauty behold beneath bless'd bliss blooming breath Britons Castle of Indolence charms cheerful Coriolanus corruption DEAR SIR death deep delight divine E'en earth Ednam eternal fair fame fancy favour fire flame genius give glory Goddess grace Greece happy heart Heaven honour hope inspire JAMES THOMSON Jedburgh King land letter Liberty light live Lord Lyttelton Mallet mankind Masque of Alfred mind mix'd moral Muse nature never o'er passion peace pleasing pleasure poem Poet poetry pomp pour'd praise pride Prince of Wales rage reason reign rise Roman Rome round scene Secretary of Briefs shade shine shore sing smiling soft song sons Sophonisba soul Southdean spirit spread spring sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou thought toil truth tyrant vale verses virtue whence wild Winter
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Página cxxviii - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 72 - To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles, thine. Rule...
Página cliv - mid the varied landscape weep. But thou, who Own'st that earthly bed, Ah ! what will every dirge avail ? Or tears which Love and Pity shed. That mourn beneath the gliding sail ! Yet lives there one, whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near ? With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die, And Joy desert the blooming year.
Página cxxv - Father of light and life, thou GOOD SUPREME! O teach me what is good! teach me THYSELF! Save me from folly , vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge , conscious peace , and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Página clv - Sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side, Whose cold turf hides the buried friend...
Página 25 - Observe the rising lily's snowy grace ; Observe the various vegetable race : They neither toil, nor spin, but careless grow ; Yet see how warm they blush ! how bright they glow ! What regal vestments can with them compare ! What king so shining ! or what queen so fair...
Página 203 - Now turn your view, and mark from Celtic night To present grandeur how my Britain rose. ' Bold were those Britons, who, the careless sons Of nature, roamed the forest-bounds, at once Their verdant city, high-embowering fane, And the gay circle of their woodland wars : For by the Druid taught, that death but shifts The vital scene, they that prime fear despised ; 631 And, prone to rush on steel, disdained to spare An ill-saved life that must again return.
Página cxxi - For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire ; Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
Página 189 - In elegant design, Improving nature: in ideas fair, Or great, extracted from the fine antique; In attitude, expression, airs divine; Her sons of Rome and Florence bore the prize. To those of Venice she the magic art Of colours melting into colours gave. Theirs too it was by one embracing mass Of light and shade, that settles round the whole...
Página 20 - ... the secret grove ; Ye unseen beings, to my harp repair, And raise majestic strains, or melt in love. Those tender notes, how kindly they upbraid, With what soft woe they thrill the lover's heart ! Sure from the hand of some unhappy maid, Who died for love, these sweet complainings part.