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... plain story to the eye is told , Which we conceive the moment we behold , Hogarth unrivall'd stands , and shall engage Unrivall❜d praise to the most distant age . " There are two peculiarly interesting passages in his Conference . One ...
... plain story to the eye is told , Which we conceive the moment we behold , Hogarth unrivall'd stands , and shall engage Unrivall❜d praise to the most distant age . " There are two peculiarly interesting passages in his Conference . One ...
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... Plain Common Sense appear'd , by nature there Appointed , with plain Truth , to guard the chair . The pageant saw , and blasted with her frown , To its first state of nothing melted down . Nor shall the Muse ( for even there the pride ...
... Plain Common Sense appear'd , by nature there Appointed , with plain Truth , to guard the chair . The pageant saw , and blasted with her frown , To its first state of nothing melted down . Nor shall the Muse ( for even there the pride ...
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... plain . Jamie , when our young laird discreetly fled , Was seiz'd , and hang'd till he was dead , dead , dead . Jock ... plains , Well dost thou know were none more hopeful swains ; Five brothers there I lost , in manhood's pride , Two ...
... plain . Jamie , when our young laird discreetly fled , Was seiz'd , and hang'd till he was dead , dead , dead . Jock ... plains , Well dost thou know were none more hopeful swains ; Five brothers there I lost , in manhood's pride , Two ...
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... plain'd the boys , when from her throne of turf , With boils emboss'd , and overgrown with scurf , Vile humours , which , in life's corrupted well , Mix'd at the birth , not abstinence could quell , Pale Famine rear'd the head : her ...
... plain'd the boys , when from her throne of turf , With boils emboss'd , and overgrown with scurf , Vile humours , which , in life's corrupted well , Mix'd at the birth , not abstinence could quell , Pale Famine rear'd the head : her ...
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... plains , Where milk with honey flows , and plenty reigns . With some few natives join'd , some pliant few , Who worship int'rest , and our track pursue , There shall we , though the wretched people grieve , Ravage at large , nor ask the ...
... plains , Where milk with honey flows , and plenty reigns . With some few natives join'd , some pliant few , Who worship int'rest , and our track pursue , There shall we , though the wretched people grieve , Ravage at large , nor ask the ...
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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...