A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, Volume 2Robert Dodsley J. Hughs, 1755 - English poetry |
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... most are valu'd , where they best are known . " With ev'ry grace of nature , or of art , " We cannot break one stubborn country heart : " The brutes , infenfible , our pow'r defy : " To love exceeds a ' Squire's capacity . " The town ...
... most are valu'd , where they best are known . " With ev'ry grace of nature , or of art , " We cannot break one stubborn country heart : " The brutes , infenfible , our pow'r defy : " To love exceeds a ' Squire's capacity . " The town ...
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... most shall I admire , which worthieft praife , The Hero or the People ? Honour doubts , And weighs their virtues in an equal scale . Not thus Germania pays th ' uncancell'd debt Of gratitude to us . Bluth , Cæfar , blush , When thou ...
... most shall I admire , which worthieft praife , The Hero or the People ? Honour doubts , And weighs their virtues in an equal scale . Not thus Germania pays th ' uncancell'd debt Of gratitude to us . Bluth , Cæfar , blush , When thou ...
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... most you tyrannize you're most abus'd . What is your fex's earlieft , latest care , Your heart's fupreme ambition ? To be fair : For this the toilet ev'ry thought employs , Hence all the toils of drefs , and all the joys : For this ...
... most you tyrannize you're most abus'd . What is your fex's earlieft , latest care , Your heart's fupreme ambition ? To be fair : For this the toilet ev'ry thought employs , Hence all the toils of drefs , and all the joys : For this ...
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... most : Her's is the blifs in just return to prove The honeft warmth of undiffembled Love ; For her , inconftant man might cease to range , And Gratitude forbid Defire to change . But left harsh Care the lover's peace destroy , And ...
... most : Her's is the blifs in just return to prove The honeft warmth of undiffembled Love ; For her , inconftant man might cease to range , And Gratitude forbid Defire to change . But left harsh Care the lover's peace destroy , And ...
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... most abandon'd Prostitutes are they , Who not to Love , but Av'rice fall a prey : Nor aught avails the specious name of WIFE ; A maid fo wedded , is a WHORE For Life . Ev'n in the happieft choice , where fav'ring heav'n Has equal love ...
... most abandon'd Prostitutes are they , Who not to Love , but Av'rice fall a prey : Nor aught avails the specious name of WIFE ; A maid fo wedded , is a WHORE For Life . Ev'n in the happieft choice , where fav'ring heav'n Has equal love ...
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Page 268 - 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 272 - 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 45 - Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.
Page 270 - 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, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th
Page 276 - Eight times emerging from the flood She mew'd to ev'ry watry God, Some speedy aid to send. No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd: Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A Fav'rite has no friend! From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know, one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.
Page 270 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 267 - 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 39 - To whom I gave my own harmonious lyre, If high exalted on the Throne of Wit, Near Me and Homer thou afpire to...
Page 75 - E'en for the kid or lamb that pour'd its life Beneath the bloody knife, Her gentle tears would fall, Tears from sweet virtue's source, benevolent to all.
Page 81 - Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wise; Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; Yet good, as she the world had never seen ; The noble fire of an exalted mind, With gentle female tenderness combin'd.