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... wealth , in active commerce won , And basking in the smile of fortune's sun , With scorn the parent ey'd the lowly shade , That veil'd the beauties of this charming maid . Indignant he rebuk'd th ' enamour'd boy , The flattering promise ...
... wealth , in active commerce won , And basking in the smile of fortune's sun , With scorn the parent ey'd the lowly shade , That veil'd the beauties of this charming maid . Indignant he rebuk'd th ' enamour'd boy , The flattering promise ...
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... wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour , when , stealing from the noise Of care and envy , sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast , And turns his tears to rapture ...
... wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour , when , stealing from the noise Of care and envy , sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast , And turns his tears to rapture ...
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... Wealth , nor all the gaudy spoils Of pageant Honour , can seduce to leave Those ever - blooming sweets , which from the store Of Nature fair Imagination culls To charm the enliven'd soul ! What though not all Of mortal offspring can ...
... Wealth , nor all the gaudy spoils Of pageant Honour , can seduce to leave Those ever - blooming sweets , which from the store Of Nature fair Imagination culls To charm the enliven'd soul ! What though not all Of mortal offspring can ...
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... wealth , and arts . He delineates their evils , and disdains their vaunted benefits . This is certainly not ... wealth , which had driven the peasant to emigration ; and , tracing the sources of the evil to " Trade's proud empire ...
... wealth , and arts . He delineates their evils , and disdains their vaunted benefits . This is certainly not ... wealth , which had driven the peasant to emigration ; and , tracing the sources of the evil to " Trade's proud empire ...
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... wealth and cumbrous pomp repose , " the possessors themselves of those places have not been always destitute of compunctions similar to the sentiments of the poet . Mr. Potter , in his " Qb- servations on the Poor Laws , " has recorded ...
... wealth and cumbrous pomp repose , " the possessors themselves of those places have not been always destitute of compunctions similar to the sentiments of the poet . Mr. Potter , in his " Qb- servations on the Poor Laws , " has recorded ...
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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...