A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4Robert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1782 - English poetry |
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... please , Wait on our steps , and graceful Eafe Nor Mirth be wanting as we walk , Nor Wit to season fober talk ; Let gay Description too attend , And Fable told with moral end , And Satire quick that comes by stealth , And flowing ...
... please , Wait on our steps , and graceful Eafe Nor Mirth be wanting as we walk , Nor Wit to season fober talk ; Let gay Description too attend , And Fable told with moral end , And Satire quick that comes by stealth , And flowing ...
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... please , The Comic fisters kept their native ease . With jealous fear declining Greece beheld Her own Menander's art almost excell'd ! But every Mufe effay'd to raise in vain Some labour'd rival of her Tragic strain ; Ilyffus ' laurels ...
... please , The Comic fisters kept their native ease . With jealous fear declining Greece beheld Her own Menander's art almost excell'd ! But every Mufe effay'd to raise in vain Some labour'd rival of her Tragic strain ; Ilyffus ' laurels ...
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... please , Could I , at woman , who so oft exclaim , Expose ( nor blufh ) thy triumph and my shame , companion of Cobham , Lyttelton , and Chesterfield . He is faid to have divided his life between pleasure and books , in his retirement ...
... please , Could I , at woman , who so oft exclaim , Expose ( nor blufh ) thy triumph and my shame , companion of Cobham , Lyttelton , and Chesterfield . He is faid to have divided his life between pleasure and books , in his retirement ...
Page 82
... please and flatter more , And meanly learned in that guilty trade Can long abuse a fond , unthinking maid . And fince their lips , fo knowing to deceive , Thy unexperienc'd youth might foon believe , And fince their tears in falfe ...
... please and flatter more , And meanly learned in that guilty trade Can long abuse a fond , unthinking maid . And fince their lips , fo knowing to deceive , Thy unexperienc'd youth might foon believe , And fince their tears in falfe ...
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... Their arguments convince because they please ; While fophiftry for reason they admit , And wander dazzled by the glare of wit , Wit that on ill a fpecious luftre throws , And Wit [ 90 ] Nor knows the wifeft to elude the harm, ...
... Their arguments convince because they please ; While fophiftry for reason they admit , And wander dazzled by the glare of wit , Wit that on ill a fpecious luftre throws , And Wit [ 90 ] Nor knows the wifeft to elude the harm, ...
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Page 6 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 160 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 6 - 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 169 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Page 269 - If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Page 271 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Page 8 - 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 373 - To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away, Is happy, nor heard to repine. Thus, widely remov'd from the fair, Where my vows, my devotion I owe ; Soft hope is the relique I bear, And my solace wherever I go.
Page 374 - twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Page 164 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly; Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate, The regal palace, the luxurious board, 115 The liv'ried army, and the menial lord.