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... 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 Of this vain nothing shall be mortified ) Nor shall the Muse ( should ...
... 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 Of this vain nothing shall be mortified ) Nor shall the Muse ( should ...
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... such weak eyes ? Yet presuming on his senses , On he goes , most wondrous wise : Doubts of truth , believes pretences ; Lost in error , lives and dies . SONG . THE PARTING KISS . ONE kind kiss before ROBERT DODSLEY Song.
... such weak eyes ? Yet presuming on his senses , On he goes , most wondrous wise : Doubts of truth , believes pretences ; Lost in error , lives and dies . SONG . THE PARTING KISS . ONE kind kiss before ROBERT DODSLEY Song.
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... truth , not so sick of life as of missing its preferments , and was still ambitious not only of converting Lorenzo , but of shining before this utterly worthless and wretched world as a sparkling , sublime , and witty poet . Hence his ...
... truth , not so sick of life as of missing its preferments , and was still ambitious not only of converting Lorenzo , but of shining before this utterly worthless and wretched world as a sparkling , sublime , and witty poet . Hence his ...
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... truths which they illustrate are few and simple . Around those truths the poet directs his course with innumerable sinuosities of fancy , like a man appearing to make a long voyage while he is in reality only crossing and recrossing the ...
... truths which they illustrate are few and simple . Around those truths the poet directs his course with innumerable sinuosities of fancy , like a man appearing to make a long voyage while he is in reality only crossing and recrossing the ...
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... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance , pour'd On ...
... truths inspire . Nor less inspire my conduct than my song ; Teach my best reason , reason ; my best will Teach rectitude ; and fix my firm resolve Wisdom to wed , and pay her long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance , pour'd On ...
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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...