The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements : to which is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorAlexander Donaldson, 1774 |
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... fome small fray victorious ! when instead Offhatter : parcels of this earth ufurp'd By violence inmanly , and fore deeds Of cruelty and blood , nature herself Stood all fubdu'd by him , and open laid Her every latent glory to his view ...
... fome small fray victorious ! when instead Offhatter : parcels of this earth ufurp'd By violence inmanly , and fore deeds Of cruelty and blood , nature herself Stood all fubdu'd by him , and open laid Her every latent glory to his view ...
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... fome awful change is come , Sound thro ' the world - ' Tis done - The meafure's full ; And I refign my charge.Ye mould'ring ftones , That build the tow'ring pyramid , the proud Triumphal arch , the monument effac'd 170 By ruthlefs ruin ...
... fome awful change is come , Sound thro ' the world - ' Tis done - The meafure's full ; And I refign my charge.Ye mould'ring ftones , That build the tow'ring pyramid , the proud Triumphal arch , the monument effac'd 170 By ruthlefs ruin ...
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... fome foul corrupting Hand , whose waste These heighten'd wants with fatal bounty feeds : From man to man the flack'ning ruin runs , Till the whole State unnerv'd in SLAV'ry finks . PELOPIDAS and EPAMINONDAS . 485 490 495 500 The battle ...
... fome foul corrupting Hand , whose waste These heighten'd wants with fatal bounty feeds : From man to man the flack'ning ruin runs , Till the whole State unnerv'd in SLAV'ry finks . PELOPIDAS and EPAMINONDAS . 485 490 495 500 The battle ...
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... polluted meal , And limbs yet quiv'ring with fome kindred foul ,. To turn the human heart . Delightful truth ! The four cardinal virtues . 50 55 Go 65 " Had he beheld the living chain afcend , And F 3 Part III . 65 LIBERTY .
... polluted meal , And limbs yet quiv'ring with fome kindred foul ,. To turn the human heart . Delightful truth ! The four cardinal virtues . 50 55 Go 65 " Had he beheld the living chain afcend , And F 3 Part III . 65 LIBERTY .
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... fome queftion'd , fome exclaim'd , ( Like one who dreaming , between hope and fear , 275 Is loft in anxious joy ) Be that again , Be that again proclaim'd , distinct and loud . The King of Macedonia . Loud , and distinct , it was again ...
... fome queftion'd , fome exclaim'd , ( Like one who dreaming , between hope and fear , 275 Is loft in anxious joy ) Be that again , Be that again proclaim'd , distinct and loud . The King of Macedonia . Loud , and distinct , it was again ...
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الصفحة 194 - The rooms with costly tapestry were hung, Where was inwoven many a gentle tale ; Such as of old the rural poets sung...
الصفحة 212 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
الصفحة 240 - Tainting the gale, in which they flutter'd light; Of morbid hue his features, sunk and sad; His hollow eyne shook forth a sickly light; And o'er his lank jawbone, in piteous plight, His black rough beard was matted rank and vile; Direful to see!
الصفحة 204 - One day there chanced into these halls to rove A joyous youth, who took you at first sight ; Him the wild wave of pleasure hither drove, Before the sprightly tempest tossing light...
الصفحة 205 - Him through their inmost walks the muses lad, To him the sacred love of nature lent, And sometimes would he make our valley glad; Whenas we found he would not here be pent, To him the better sort this friendly message sent: LXVI.
الصفحة 206 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
الصفحة 201 - Wide pour'd abroad behold the giddy crew ; See how they dash along from wall to wall ! At every door, hark, how they thundering call ! Good Lord ! what can this giddy rout excite ? Why, on each other with fell tooth to fall ; A neighbour's fortune, fame, or peace, to blight, And make new tiresome parties for the coming night. The puzzling sons of party next appear'd, ' In dark cabals and nightly juntos met ; And now they whisper'd close, now shrugging rear'd Th' important shoulder; then, as if to...
الصفحة 250 - OR ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part: Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
الصفحة 186 - Or prowl in courts of law for human prey, In venal senate thieve, or rob on broad highway.
الصفحة 240 - Brentford town, a town of mud, An herd of bristly swine is prick'd along; The filthy beasts, that never chew the cud, Still grunt, and squeak, and sing their troublous song, And oft they plunge themselves the mire among...