Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Side vii
... Nymph 116 EPIGRAMS AND SHORT poems . The happy Swain ib . ......... Upon the Toasts of the Hanover Club ib EPISTLES . To a Friend who desired me to write on the Death of King William On a Company of bad Dancers to good Music Epigram ...
... Nymph 116 EPIGRAMS AND SHORT poems . The happy Swain ib . ......... Upon the Toasts of the Hanover Club ib EPISTLES . To a Friend who desired me to write on the Death of King William On a Company of bad Dancers to good Music Epigram ...
Side ix
... nymph , I told her true ...... 290 II . The Landscape ib . SONGS , WRITTEN CHIEFLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737 AND 1742 ... nymphs and generous dames . ib . IV . The Sky - Lark V. On every tree , in every plain VI . The Attribute of Venus ...
... nymph , I told her true ...... 290 II . The Landscape ib . SONGS , WRITTEN CHIEFLY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1737 AND 1742 ... nymphs and generous dames . ib . IV . The Sky - Lark V. On every tree , in every plain VI . The Attribute of Venus ...
Side 60
... nymphs and swains That thoughtless fly into thy chains , As custom leads the way : If there be bliss without design , Ivies and oaks may grow and twine , And be as blest as they . Not sordid souls of earthly mould , Who drawn by kindred ...
... nymphs and swains That thoughtless fly into thy chains , As custom leads the way : If there be bliss without design , Ivies and oaks may grow and twine , And be as blest as they . Not sordid souls of earthly mould , Who drawn by kindred ...
Side 63
... nymph that twinn'd with me , I may be happy too . " Some courteous angel , tell me where , What distant lands this unknown fair Or distant seas detain ? Swift as the wheel of Nature rolls I'd fly , to meet , and mingle souls , And wear ...
... nymph that twinn'd with me , I may be happy too . " Some courteous angel , tell me where , What distant lands this unknown fair Or distant seas detain ? Swift as the wheel of Nature rolls I'd fly , to meet , and mingle souls , And wear ...
Side 73
... Nymph , ascend to Beauty's throne , And rule that radiant world alone : Let favourites take thy lower sphere , Not monarchs are thy rivals here . The court of Beauty , built sublime , Defies all powers but thine and Time : Envy , that ...
... Nymph , ascend to Beauty's throne , And rule that radiant world alone : Let favourites take thy lower sphere , Not monarchs are thy rivals here . The court of Beauty , built sublime , Defies all powers but thine and Time : Envy , that ...
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ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
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Side 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Side 205 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat...
Side 204 - IF AUGHT of oaten stop or pastoral song May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Side 206 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Side 219 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Side 207 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Side 422 - 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.
Side 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Side 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Side 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...