Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1782 - English poetry |
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... bright , In ev'ry sphere which Nature has affign'd ; Whether to join the noisy din of war , Or ferve their country and their king at home ; Let not th ' unmarry'd dotard think he knows A fingle thought fufficiently refin'd To guess the ...
... bright , In ev'ry sphere which Nature has affign'd ; Whether to join the noisy din of war , Or ferve their country and their king at home ; Let not th ' unmarry'd dotard think he knows A fingle thought fufficiently refin'd To guess the ...
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... bright ray that darts the fiery glance ; And Age , dread herald of Death's awful reign , Blafts ev'ry grace , and freezes ev'ry vein . When with a mother's joy , a mother's fear , The thoughtful parent dropp'd the filent tear , Gaz'd on ...
... bright ray that darts the fiery glance ; And Age , dread herald of Death's awful reign , Blafts ev'ry grace , and freezes ev'ry vein . When with a mother's joy , a mother's fear , The thoughtful parent dropp'd the filent tear , Gaz'd on ...
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... bright approach , • And fhun the shining train , and golden coach . In vain , thefe dangers pafs'd , your doors you clofe , And hope the balmy bleflings of repose : • Cruel with guilt , and daring with despair , The midnight murd'rer ...
... bright approach , • And fhun the shining train , and golden coach . In vain , thefe dangers pafs'd , your doors you clofe , And hope the balmy bleflings of repose : • Cruel with guilt , and daring with despair , The midnight murd'rer ...
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... bright - hair'd fun Sits on yon western tent , whofe cloudy skirts With brede etherial wove , O'erhang his wavy bed ; Now air is hufh'd , fave where the weak - ey'd bat , With short shrill fhrieks flits by on leathern wing , Or where ...
... bright - hair'd fun Sits on yon western tent , whofe cloudy skirts With brede etherial wove , O'erhang his wavy bed ; Now air is hufh'd , fave where the weak - ey'd bat , With short shrill fhrieks flits by on leathern wing , Or where ...
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... bright . Then , as the turns around , from ev'ry part , Like porcupines , fhe fends a piercing dart ; In vain , alas ! the fond spectator tries To fhun the pleafing dangers of her eyes ; For , Parthian - like , fhe wounds as fure behind ...
... bright . Then , as the turns around , from ev'ry part , Like porcupines , fhe fends a piercing dart ; In vain , alas ! the fond spectator tries To fhun the pleafing dangers of her eyes ; For , Parthian - like , fhe wounds as fure behind ...
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Page 381 - 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 111 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 21 - Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath ; Shall, when all other comforts cease, .Like a kind angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
Page 86 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring...
Page 33 - Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit ; As musing slow I hail Thy genial loved return. For when thy folding-star * arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant Hours, and Elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 86 - 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 33 - And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 201 - In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts. And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look; She sees, and trembles at th
Page 382 - 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 201 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...