A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, Volume 6Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1765 - English poetry |
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... never , Hoadly , in thy country's eyes , May impious gold , or pleasure's gaudy prize , Make public virtue , public freedom vile ; Nor our own manners tempt us to disclaim That heritage , our nobleft wealth and fame , Which thou haft ...
... never , Hoadly , in thy country's eyes , May impious gold , or pleasure's gaudy prize , Make public virtue , public freedom vile ; Nor our own manners tempt us to disclaim That heritage , our nobleft wealth and fame , Which thou haft ...
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... never acts in vain ; Nor fhall the foul , on which it has bestow'd Such pow'rs , e'er perish , like an earthly clod ; But purg'd at length from foul corruption's stain , Freed from her prison , and unbound her chain , She shall her ...
... never acts in vain ; Nor fhall the foul , on which it has bestow'd Such pow'rs , e'er perish , like an earthly clod ; But purg'd at length from foul corruption's stain , Freed from her prison , and unbound her chain , She shall her ...
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... never tastes , With gratitude accepts the kind deceit , And thence forefees a fyftem more compleat . Of those what think you , who the circling race Of funs , and their revolving planets trace , And comets journeying through unbounded ...
... never tastes , With gratitude accepts the kind deceit , And thence forefees a fyftem more compleat . Of those what think you , who the circling race Of funs , and their revolving planets trace , And comets journeying through unbounded ...
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... never could fubfift , Unless some glimmerings of a future state Were with the mind coæval , and innate : For every fiction , which can long perfuade , In truth must have its firft foundations laid . Because we are unable to conceive ...
... never could fubfift , Unless some glimmerings of a future state Were with the mind coæval , and innate : For every fiction , which can long perfuade , In truth must have its firft foundations laid . Because we are unable to conceive ...
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... never die , } Whose pow'rs within themfelves , and their own effence lie . If to conceive how any thing can be From shape abstracted and locality Is hard ; what think you of the Deity ? His Being not the leaft relation bears , As far as ...
... never die , } Whose pow'rs within themfelves , and their own effence lie . If to conceive how any thing can be From shape abstracted and locality Is hard ; what think you of the Deity ? His Being not the leaft relation bears , As far as ...
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Page 391 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 397 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 392 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, 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...
Page 392 - 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 389 - Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. But ah ! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now ! Tho...
Page 392 - With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line. II. 1 'Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace...
Page 393 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 385 - Perching on the sceptred hand Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king With ruffled plumes, and flagging wing : Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
Page 389 - 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 388 - 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...