The Beauties of English Poesy, Том 1William Griffin, 1767 - Всего страниц: 12 |
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... Court ; In various talk th ' inftructive hours they past , Who gave the ball or paid the visit laft : One speaks the glory of the British Queen , And one describes a charming Indian fcreen ; B 6 A third A third interprets motions ...
... Court ; In various talk th ' inftructive hours they past , Who gave the ball or paid the visit laft : One speaks the glory of the British Queen , And one describes a charming Indian fcreen ; B 6 A third A third interprets motions ...
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... Court these eyes had never feen ! Yet am not I the first miftaken maid By love of courts to num'rous ills betray'd . Oh had I rather unadmir'd remain'd In fome lone ifle , or distant northern land ; Where the gilt chariot never marks ...
... Court these eyes had never feen ! Yet am not I the first miftaken maid By love of courts to num'rous ills betray'd . Oh had I rather unadmir'd remain'd In fome lone ifle , or distant northern land ; Where the gilt chariot never marks ...
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... courts them from the poor retreat , And the glad mafter bolts the wary gate . While hence they walk , the pilgrim's bofom wrought With all the travail of uncertain thought ; His partner's acts without their cause appear ; ' Twas there a ...
... courts them from the poor retreat , And the glad mafter bolts the wary gate . While hence they walk , the pilgrim's bofom wrought With all the travail of uncertain thought ; His partner's acts without their cause appear ; ' Twas there a ...
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... court he fing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A ftatesman's logic unconvinc'd can hear , And dare to flumber o'er the Gazetteer ; Despise a fool in half his penfion drefs'd , And strive in vain to laugh at H ― y's jeft ...
... court he fing , To pluck a titled poet's borrow'd wing ; A ftatesman's logic unconvinc'd can hear , And dare to flumber o'er the Gazetteer ; Despise a fool in half his penfion drefs'd , And strive in vain to laugh at H ― y's jeft ...
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... court , Their air , their drefs , their politics import ; Obfequious , artful , voluble , and gay , On Britain's fond credulity they prey . No gainful trade their induftry can ' fcape , They fing , they dance , clean fhoes , or cure a ...
... court , Their air , their drefs , their politics import ; Obfequious , artful , voluble , and gay , On Britain's fond credulity they prey . No gainful trade their induftry can ' fcape , They fing , they dance , clean fhoes , or cure a ...
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Стр. 49 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On.
Стр. 42 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Стр. 47 - Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Стр. 39 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Стр. 57 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath and near his fav'rite 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 thro' the church-way path we saw him borne.
Стр. 47 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Стр. 57 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Стр. 216 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Стр. 54 - Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Стр. 50 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.