Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784Thomas Campbell J. Murray, 1819 |
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... charms , And reason of each wholesome doubt disarms , Which to the lowest depths of guile descends , By vilest means pursues the vilest ends , Wears friendship's mask for purposes of spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ...
... charms , And reason of each wholesome doubt disarms , Which to the lowest depths of guile descends , By vilest means pursues the vilest ends , Wears friendship's mask for purposes of spite , Fawns in the day , and butchers in the night ...
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... charm the ear , Through all the land did Jamie find a peer ? Curs'd be that year by ev'ry honest Scot , And in the shepherd's calendar forgot , That fatal year , when Jamie , hapless swain , In evil hour forsook the peaceful plain ...
... charm the ear , Through all the land did Jamie find a peer ? Curs'd be that year by ev'ry honest Scot , And in the shepherd's calendar forgot , That fatal year , when Jamie , hapless swain , In evil hour forsook the peaceful plain ...
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... the flattering tale ? " That face , alas ! no more is fair , Those lips no longer red : Dark are my eyes , now clos'd in death , And every charm is fled . " The hungry worm my sister is ; This winding DAVID MALLET . 41.
... the flattering tale ? " That face , alas ! no more is fair , Those lips no longer red : Dark are my eyes , now clos'd in death , And every charm is fled . " The hungry worm my sister is ; This winding DAVID MALLET . 41.
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... charms Extinguish'd in the wonders of her song ! Her song still vibrates in my ravish'd ear , Still melting there , and with voluptuous pain ( 0 to forget her ! ) thrilling through my heart ! Song , beauty , youth , love , virtue , joy ...
... charms Extinguish'd in the wonders of her song ! Her song still vibrates in my ravish'd ear , Still melting there , and with voluptuous pain ( 0 to forget her ! ) thrilling through my heart ! Song , beauty , youth , love , virtue , joy ...
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... charms refuse , And painted art's deprav'd allurements choose . CHARACTERS OF WOMEN - THE WEDDED WIT . FROM THE SAME . NOUGHT but a genius can a genius fit ; A wit herself , Amelia weds a wit : Both wits ! though miracles are said to ...
... charms refuse , And painted art's deprav'd allurements choose . CHARACTERS OF WOMEN - THE WEDDED WIT . FROM THE SAME . NOUGHT but a genius can a genius fit ; A wit herself , Amelia weds a wit : Both wits ! though miracles are said to ...
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ANTISTROPHE beauty behold beneath blest bliss bloom BORN bosom brave breast breath charms dear death delight dreadful dydd e'er earth eternal Eulogius ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear frae FRANCIS FAWKES genius GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS grief hand hear heart Heaven honour hour human JAMES GRAINGER kynge labour Lord mild ale mind MONODY mournful nature nature's night Night Thoughts numbers o'er pain pale Palemon passions PAUL WHITEHEAD peace plain pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor pow'r praise pride rage reign rise Rodmond round scene Selim shade shore skies sleep smile soft song soul spread swain sweet SWEET Auburn Syr Charles tears tender Thatt thee Thenne thine THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought toil train trembling university of Edinburgh vale verse virtue voice wave wealth wild wings wretch wyfe wylle Wyth ynne youth
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Página 284 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 285 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 290 - 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 291 - That call'd them from their native walks away ; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, Hung round the bowers, and fondly...
Página 286 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Página 191 - Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hush'd the stormy main : Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloudtopt head. On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore, and ghastly pale : Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by.
Página 440 - Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust.
Página 288 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 47 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Página 287 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale...