A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4Robert Dodsley |
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... Arm'd all to point , and on a courfer fair Y - mounted high , in military pride , His little train before he flow did ride . m Him eke behind a gentle Squire enfues , With his young lord aye marching fide by fide , His counsellour and ...
... Arm'd all to point , and on a courfer fair Y - mounted high , in military pride , His little train before he flow did ride . m Him eke behind a gentle Squire enfues , With his young lord aye marching fide by fide , His counsellour and ...
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... arm'd thofe griefly faitours prefs . XXX . As on the fteepy margin of a brook , When the young fun with flowery Maia rides , With innocent difmay a bleating flock Crowd back , affrighted at the rolling tides : The fhepherd - fwain at ...
... arm'd thofe griefly faitours prefs . XXX . As on the fteepy margin of a brook , When the young fun with flowery Maia rides , With innocent difmay a bleating flock Crowd back , affrighted at the rolling tides : The fhepherd - fwain at ...
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... to evade The GIANT's furious arm , about him wheel'd Wend arrear , move backwards . z Bet , beat ; bray'd , refounded . • Fone , foes . a Trenchant , cutting . With restless steps aye traverfing the field . And ever 3 With ( 30 ) XLVI. ...
... to evade The GIANT's furious arm , about him wheel'd Wend arrear , move backwards . z Bet , beat ; bray'd , refounded . • Fone , foes . a Trenchant , cutting . With restless steps aye traverfing the field . And ever 3 With ( 30 ) XLVI. ...
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... arms fecurely laid , Disclos'd to fudden view a vale profound , With Nature's artless smiles and tranquil beauties crown'd . LXX . There , on the bafis of an ancient pile , Whose cross furmounted spire o'erlook'd the wood , A venerable ...
... arms fecurely laid , Disclos'd to fudden view a vale profound , With Nature's artless smiles and tranquil beauties crown'd . LXX . There , on the bafis of an ancient pile , Whose cross furmounted spire o'erlook'd the wood , A venerable ...
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... arms ; Where Sidney his Arcadian landscape drew , Genuine from thy Doric view ; b And patriot Algernon unshaken rose Above infulting foes ; And Sace ariffa nurs'd her angel charms . a Sir Phi pSidney . b Algernon Sidney . O fuffer O ...
... arms ; Where Sidney his Arcadian landscape drew , Genuine from thy Doric view ; b And patriot Algernon unshaken rose Above infulting foes ; And Sace ariffa nurs'd her angel charms . a Sir Phi pSidney . b Algernon Sidney . O fuffer O ...
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Page 5 - 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 5 - 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 5 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, 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 340 - With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love, To prune the wild branches away.
Page 143 - And scarce a sycophant was fed by pride; Where ne'er was known the form of mock debate, Or seen a new-made mayor's unwieldy state; Where change of fav'rites made no change of laws, And senates heard before they judg'da cause; How wouldst thou shake at Britain's modish tribe, Dart the quick taunt, and edge the piercing gibe?
Page 5 - Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Page 242 - 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 149 - But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 5 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 5 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.