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... shall take in his Return to England . Magnificence of the Italians in their Reception of Strangers , and parfimony when alone . The great applause which the new Pope meets with . One of his Bons Mots · XL . To his Father . Total want of ...
... shall take in his Return to England . Magnificence of the Italians in their Reception of Strangers , and parfimony when alone . The great applause which the new Pope meets with . One of his Bons Mots · XL . To his Father . Total want of ...
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... Shall end where they began . Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day , In Fortune's varying colours dreft : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance , Or chill'd by Age , their airy dance They leave , in dust to ...
... Shall end where they began . Alike the Bufy and the Gay But flutter through life's little day , In Fortune's varying colours dreft : Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance , Or chill'd by Age , their airy dance They leave , in dust to ...
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... shall the fury Paffions tear , The vultures of the mind , Difdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that fculks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth , Or Jealoufy , with rankling tooth , That inly gnaws the secret heart ...
... shall the fury Paffions tear , The vultures of the mind , Difdainful Anger , pallid Fear , And Shame that fculks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth , Or Jealoufy , with rankling tooth , That inly gnaws the secret heart ...
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Thomas Gray. Ambition this shall tempt to rife , Then whirl the wretch from high , To bitter Scorn a facrifice , And grinning Infamy . The stings of Falsehood those shall try , And hard Unkindness ' alter'd eye , That mocks the tear it ...
Thomas Gray. Ambition this shall tempt to rife , Then whirl the wretch from high , To bitter Scorn a facrifice , And grinning Infamy . The stings of Falsehood those shall try , And hard Unkindness ' alter'd eye , That mocks the tear it ...
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... Muse's ray , With orient hues , unborrow'd of the fun : Yet shall he mount , and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate , Beneath the Good how far - but far above the Great . THE BARD . ' A PINDARIC ODE . I. I. [ 28 ]
... Muse's ray , With orient hues , unborrow'd of the fun : Yet shall he mount , and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate , Beneath the Good how far - but far above the Great . THE BARD . ' A PINDARIC ODE . I. I. [ 28 ]
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Page 74 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 73 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 75 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 5 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Page 17 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When...
Page 80 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 12 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 27 - Through the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms, as glitter in the Muse's ray With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 13 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 48 - Strains of Immortality! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun.