The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred PoetryC. Whittingham, 1806 - 304 pagina's |
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Pagina iii
... those pieces that cannot fail , if duly attended to , to instil into the mind of the Reader the love of virtue and true religion ; abstracted from all illiberal ideas and pe- dantic notions , which are only of man's in- vention.
... those pieces that cannot fail , if duly attended to , to instil into the mind of the Reader the love of virtue and true religion ; abstracted from all illiberal ideas and pe- dantic notions , which are only of man's in- vention.
Pagina vi
... of 1757 ..... ..... 102 106 109 IV . Written in Winter ........ ..... ............ 114 III . Written in Harvest .... .... An Hymn from the Eighth Psalm . Anonymous .. 118 An Elegy , describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind vi.
... of 1757 ..... ..... 102 106 109 IV . Written in Winter ........ ..... ............ 114 III . Written in Harvest .... .... An Hymn from the Eighth Psalm . Anonymous .. 118 An Elegy , describing the Sorrow of an ingenuous Mind vi.
Pagina vii
... Mind , on the melan- choly Event of a licentious Amour Shenstone ... 119 The Hermit .............. The Messiah ....... A Night - Piece on Death ............. idem An Elegy written in a Country Church - Yard ............... To the Right ...
... Mind , on the melan- choly Event of a licentious Amour Shenstone ... 119 The Hermit .............. The Messiah ....... A Night - Piece on Death ............. idem An Elegy written in a Country Church - Yard ............... To the Right ...
Pagina 27
... mind and will deprav'd , Not to do only , but to will the same With me ? how can they then acquitted stand In sight of GOD ? Him after all disputes Forc'd I absolve : all my evasions vain , And reasonings , tho ' through mazes , lead me ...
... mind and will deprav'd , Not to do only , but to will the same With me ? how can they then acquitted stand In sight of GOD ? Him after all disputes Forc'd I absolve : all my evasions vain , And reasonings , tho ' through mazes , lead me ...
Pagina 30
... THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON . WARD . How is our reason to the future blind , When vice enervates and enslaves the mind ! What sense suggests , how fondly we believe , And 30 From the Second Chapter of the Wis- dom of Solomon Ward.
... THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON . WARD . How is our reason to the future blind , When vice enervates and enslaves the mind ! What sense suggests , how fondly we believe , And 30 From the Second Chapter of the Wis- dom of Solomon Ward.
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ... Thomas Janes Volledige weergave - 1792 |
The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ... Thomas Janes Volledige weergave - 1792 |
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Pagina 19 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end ! Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Pagina 94 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Pagina 78 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 90 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Pagina 92 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Pagina 95 - Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth, His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
Pagina 89 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful 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 made.
Pagina 147 - The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Pagina 26 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Pagina 145 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...