Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts : Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining : the Whole Being a Collection of the Best Pieces in Our LanguageWilliam Davenhill, 1770 - 248 páginas |
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... grace ! What thought thy depths unfathomable trace ! When loft in fin our ruin'd nature lay , When awful juftice claim'd her righteous pay ! See the mild Saviour bend his pitying eye , And flop th ' light'ning just prepar'd to fly ! ( O ...
... grace ! What thought thy depths unfathomable trace ! When loft in fin our ruin'd nature lay , When awful juftice claim'd her righteous pay ! See the mild Saviour bend his pitying eye , And flop th ' light'ning just prepar'd to fly ! ( O ...
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... grace , Thy laws to follow , and thy fteps to trace ; Thy bright example to thy doctrine join , And by their morals prove their faith divine ! Nor only to thy church confine thy ray , O'er the glad world thy healing light display ; Fair ...
... grace , Thy laws to follow , and thy fteps to trace ; Thy bright example to thy doctrine join , And by their morals prove their faith divine ! Nor only to thy church confine thy ray , O'er the glad world thy healing light display ; Fair ...
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... grace impart , Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong , oh teach my To find that better way . heart Save me alike from foolish pride , Or impious difcontent , At aught thy wisdom has deny'd , Or aught thy goodness lent . Teach me to ...
... grace impart , Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong , oh teach my To find that better way . heart Save me alike from foolish pride , Or impious difcontent , At aught thy wisdom has deny'd , Or aught thy goodness lent . Teach me to ...
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... grace . Thy bounteous hand with worldly blifs Has made my cup run o'er , And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my ftore . Ten thoufand thoufand precious gifts My daily thanks employ , Nor is the least a chearful heart , That ...
... grace . Thy bounteous hand with worldly blifs Has made my cup run o'er , And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my ftore . Ten thoufand thoufand precious gifts My daily thanks employ , Nor is the least a chearful heart , That ...
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... grace Sat fair - proportion'd on her polifh'd limbs , Veil'd in a fimple robe , their best attire , Beyond the pomp of drefs ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most . Thoughtless ...
... grace Sat fair - proportion'd on her polifh'd limbs , Veil'd in a fimple robe , their best attire , Beyond the pomp of drefs ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament , But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most . Thoughtless ...
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining ... Vista completa - 1767 |
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining ... Oliver Goldsmith,Charles Grignion Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 34 - The rocks proclaim th' approaching Deity. Lo, Earth receives him from the bending skies! Sink down, ye mountains! and ye valleys, rise! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay! Be smooth, ye rocks! ye rapid floods, give way! The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold!
Página 227 - GIRDLE. That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind ; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer, My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass, and yet there Dwelt all that's good and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Página 39 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 39 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 33 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive — a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a Branch arise Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: Th' Ethereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Página 31 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 63 - Has made my cup run o'er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.
Página 64 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 30 - 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.
Página 42 - Lead it through various scenes of life and death, And from each scene the noblest truths inspire.