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... Beneath the covert of the fylvan shade , Where deadly cypress , mix'd with mournful yew , Far o'er the vale a gloomy ftillness spread , Celestial Genius burft upon the view . C 4 The The bloom of youth , the majesty of years ,
... Beneath the covert of the fylvan shade , Where deadly cypress , mix'd with mournful yew , Far o'er the vale a gloomy ftillness spread , Celestial Genius burft upon the view . C 4 The The bloom of youth , the majesty of years ,
Page 62
... beneath , A grifly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : * And Madness laughing in his ireful mood . Dryden's Fable of Palamon and Arcite . This racks the joints , this fires the veins , This 62 ...
... beneath , A grifly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : * And Madness laughing in his ireful mood . Dryden's Fable of Palamon and Arcite . This racks the joints , this fires the veins , This 62 ...
Page 76
... beneath an old - tree ⚫ ( Without defign to hurt the butter , Or any malice to the poultry , ) He once or twice had penn'd a fonnet ; Yet hop'd that he might fave his bacon : • Numbers would give their oaths upon it , He ne'er was for ...
... beneath an old - tree ⚫ ( Without defign to hurt the butter , Or any malice to the poultry , ) He once or twice had penn'd a fonnet ; Yet hop'd that he might fave his bacon : • Numbers would give their oaths upon it , He ne'er was for ...
Page 92
... beneath the od'rous fhade Of Chili's boundless forefts laid , She deigns to hear the favage youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather - cinctur'd chiefs , and dufky loves . Her track , where - e'er the Goddess roves ...
... beneath the od'rous fhade Of Chili's boundless forefts laid , She deigns to hear the favage youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather - cinctur'd chiefs , and dufky loves . Her track , where - e'er the Goddess roves ...
Page 98
... sun ; Yet fhall he mount , and keep his diftant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate , Beneath the Good how far - but far above the Great , THE B A THE A R D. PINDARIC ODE . ADVERTISEMENT 98 THE PROGRESS OF POESY .
... sun ; Yet fhall he mount , and keep his diftant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate , Beneath the Good how far - but far above the Great , THE B A THE A R D. PINDARIC ODE . ADVERTISEMENT 98 THE PROGRESS OF POESY .
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Page 46 - 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 93 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 147 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 149 - 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 61 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
Page 155 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite 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 churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 104 - Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep : they do not sleep ! On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Page 156 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Page 148 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 138 - OWEN's praise demands my song, OWEN swift, and OWEN strong; Fairest flower of Roderic's stem, * Gwyneth's shield, and Britain's gem. He nor heaps his brooded stores, Nor on all profusely pours; Lord of every regal art, Liberal hand, and open heart. Big with hosts of mighty name, Squadrons three against him came; This the force of Eirin hiding, Side by side as proudly riding, On her shadow long and gay * Lochlin plows...