Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 pagina's |
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... scenes of nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . OSSIAN and Theocritus will afford compleat inftances of the firft poetry in its two different branches . Mingling storms ftorms , roaring torrents ...
... scenes of nature , as war and destruction could do with its glooms and horrors . OSSIAN and Theocritus will afford compleat inftances of the firft poetry in its two different branches . Mingling storms ftorms , roaring torrents ...
Pagina 31
... What is reality on the foft Arcadian and Sicilian plains , is all fiction here ; and though by reading we may be fo famili- arized to these imaginary scenes as to ac- quire a fort of natural taste for them , yet quire PASTORAL SONGS . 31.
... What is reality on the foft Arcadian and Sicilian plains , is all fiction here ; and though by reading we may be fo famili- arized to these imaginary scenes as to ac- quire a fort of natural taste for them , yet quire PASTORAL SONGS . 31.
Pagina 86
... scene , he bleft the hour , While NANCY's praise he fung . Let fops with fickle falfhood range The paths of wanton love , Whilft weeping maids lament their change , And fadden every grove : But endless bleffings crown the day I faw fair ...
... scene , he bleft the hour , While NANCY's praise he fung . Let fops with fickle falfhood range The paths of wanton love , Whilft weeping maids lament their change , And fadden every grove : But endless bleffings crown the day I faw fair ...
Pagina 119
... scene When shortly we shall meet , And try what yet remains between Of loit'ring time to cheat . But if the dream that fooths my mind Shall falfe and groundless prove , If I am doom'd at length to find You have forgot to love ; All I of ...
... scene When shortly we shall meet , And try what yet remains between Of loit'ring time to cheat . But if the dream that fooths my mind Shall falfe and groundless prove , If I am doom'd at length to find You have forgot to love ; All I of ...
Pagina 138
... scenes , wide fpreading trees Repel the raging dog - star's heat , Where tufted grafs , and moffy beds Afford a rural calm repofe ; Where woodbines hang their dewy heads , And fragrant fweets around difclofe . Old oozy Thames that flows ...
... scenes , wide fpreading trees Repel the raging dog - star's heat , Where tufted grafs , and moffy beds Afford a rural calm repofe ; Where woodbines hang their dewy heads , And fragrant fweets around difclofe . Old oozy Thames that flows ...
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Pagina 53 - Till, quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride, And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. " But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay.
Pagina 86 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Pagina 47 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Pagina 84 - To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away, Is happy, nor heard to repine. Thus, widely remov'd from the fair, Where my vows, my devotion I owe ; Soft hope is the relique I bear, And my solace wherever I go.
Pagina 164 - For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone...
Pagina 86 - With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love To prune the wild branches away. From the plains, from the woodlands and groves. What strains of wild melody flow!
Pagina 57 - Ah, Colin ! give not her thy vows, Vows due to me alone : Nor thou, fond maid, receive his kiss, Nor think him all thy own.
Pagina 108 - A sigh or tear, perhaps, she'll give, But love on pity cannot live. Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And love with love is only paid.
Pagina 54 - Twas Edwin's self that press'd. « Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, ^ ^ Restored to love and thee. « Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign ; And shall we never, never part, My life — my all that's mine? « No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true; The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Pagina 87 - Are the groves and the valleys as gay, And the shepherds as gentle as ours ? The groves may perhaps be as fair, And the face of the valleys as fine ; The swains may in manners compare, But their love is not equal to mine.