A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 6For R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1763 - 336 pages |
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... smile , And wisdom speaking in her mien : Yet ( she so artless all the while , So little ftudious to be seen ) We nought but inftant gladness know , Nor think to whom the gift we owe . III . But neither mufic , nor the powers Of youth ...
... smile , And wisdom speaking in her mien : Yet ( she so artless all the while , So little ftudious to be seen ) We nought but inftant gladness know , Nor think to whom the gift we owe . III . But neither mufic , nor the powers Of youth ...
Page 45
... smiling plain , Some Hero's ashes issue from the tomb , And live a vegetative life again . For matter dies not , as the Sages fay , But shifts to other forms the pliant mass , When the free spirit quits its cumb'rous clay , And fees ...
... smiling plain , Some Hero's ashes issue from the tomb , And live a vegetative life again . For matter dies not , as the Sages fay , But shifts to other forms the pliant mass , When the free spirit quits its cumb'rous clay , And fees ...
Page 57
... for thee , whofe lefs diftinguished sphere Now cheers in private the delighted eye , For calm Content , and smiling Ease are there , And , Heav'n's divineft gift , fweet Liberty . Happy Happy for me , on life's ferener flood Who fail [ 57 ]
... for thee , whofe lefs diftinguished sphere Now cheers in private the delighted eye , For calm Content , and smiling Ease are there , And , Heav'n's divineft gift , fweet Liberty . Happy Happy for me , on life's ferener flood Who fail [ 57 ]
Page 105
... smiles fhe meditates our fall . When most we truft her , we are cheated most , In defolating lofs we mourn our boast : Her cruel blast invades our hafty fruit , And withers all our glory at the root . What mean thofe multitudes around ...
... smiles fhe meditates our fall . When most we truft her , we are cheated most , In defolating lofs we mourn our boast : Her cruel blast invades our hafty fruit , And withers all our glory at the root . What mean thofe multitudes around ...
Page 121
... smile tranfport , her frown difmay , Nor praise , nor blame , nor wonder at her fway Which reafon never guides : ' tis fortune ftill , Capricious chance and arbitrary will , Bad bankers , vain of treasure not their own , With foolish ...
... smile tranfport , her frown difmay , Nor praise , nor blame , nor wonder at her fway Which reafon never guides : ' tis fortune ftill , Capricious chance and arbitrary will , Bad bankers , vain of treasure not their own , With foolish ...
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