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Page 41
... children leave the land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry ...
... children leave the land . Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish , or may fade ; A breath can make them , as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry ...
Page 43
... children just let loose from school ; The watch - dog's voice , that bay'd the whispering wind , And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had ...
... children just let loose from school ; The watch - dog's voice , that bay'd the whispering wind , And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade , And fill'd each pause the nightingale had ...
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... children follow'd with endearing wile , And pluck'd his gown , to share the good man's smile . His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest , Their welfare pleas'd him , and their cares distrest ; " Our vows are heard betimes , and heaven ...
... children follow'd with endearing wile , And pluck'd his gown , to share the good man's smile . His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest , Their welfare pleas'd him , and their cares distrest ; " Our vows are heard betimes , and heaven ...
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... children tell ; The old buffoon will fit my name as well : This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . THE LOGICIANS REFUTED . IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT.1 LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd As ...
... children tell ; The old buffoon will fit my name as well : This day beyond its term my fate extends , For life is ended when our honour ends . THE LOGICIANS REFUTED . IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT.1 LOGICIANS have but ill defin'd As ...
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... children round , Beheld each hour Death's growing power , And trembled as he frown'd . As helpless friends who view from shore The labouring ship , and hear the tempest roar , While winds and waves their wishes cross , - They stood ...
... children round , Beheld each hour Death's growing power , And trembled as he frown'd . As helpless friends who view from shore The labouring ship , and hear the tempest roar , While winds and waves their wishes cross , - They stood ...
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Page 46 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 45 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 42 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 43 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled...
Page 44 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 43 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His Heaven commences ere the world be past!
Page 40 - While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms - but all these charms are fled.
Page 50 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies.
Page 51 - Ah, no! To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Page 83 - Twas only that when he was off he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day. Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick : He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.