Miscellaneous Poems: By Several HandsDavid Lewis J. Watts, 1726 - 320 páginas |
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... Things , whofe Life and Sprightliness may seem to be calculated to please Your Youth ; but fuch a Regard will , I hope , appear to have been every where preserv'd for all that is either Sacred , Moral or Decent , as cannot fail of being ...
... Things , whofe Life and Sprightliness may seem to be calculated to please Your Youth ; but fuch a Regard will , I hope , appear to have been every where preserv'd for all that is either Sacred , Moral or Decent , as cannot fail of being ...
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... thing that is profane or licentious ; and will always give me that Paffion , for a Share in your Regard , with which we pursue the Favour of the Ingenious and the Good . It is not then hard to imagine with what Deference and Affection ...
... thing that is profane or licentious ; and will always give me that Paffion , for a Share in your Regard , with which we pursue the Favour of the Ingenious and the Good . It is not then hard to imagine with what Deference and Affection ...
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... things will be try'd , though I cannot fay how far all will bear it , by their own Value ; they have before them no celebrated Names to pre - engage the Reader's Approbation , nor exploded ones to befpeak his Diflike . I shall only fay ...
... things will be try'd , though I cannot fay how far all will bear it , by their own Value ; they have before them no celebrated Names to pre - engage the Reader's Approbation , nor exploded ones to befpeak his Diflike . I shall only fay ...
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... Things which hall here be met with in our own Language ; for all of them , which are not themselves Verfions of former English , are tranflated , excepting the three little Pieces at the End : and I should ask Pardon of the Fair - Sex ...
... Things which hall here be met with in our own Language ; for all of them , which are not themselves Verfions of former English , are tranflated , excepting the three little Pieces at the End : and I should ask Pardon of the Fair - Sex ...
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... Things , Ideas , all extravagant and vain , In endless Swarms croud in upon the Brain : The cheated Reason true and false confounds , And wild Conclufions forms from idle Grounds : Then , if the Blood impetuous fwells the Veins , And ...
... Things , Ideas , all extravagant and vain , In endless Swarms croud in upon the Brain : The cheated Reason true and false confounds , And wild Conclufions forms from idle Grounds : Then , if the Blood impetuous fwells the Veins , And ...
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againſt antient Beauty beſtow Bleffings bleft boaſt Breaſt Cauſe Charms cloſe Cobler Courſe Death Defire Dicere diſplay e'er endleſs EPIGRAM Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fair Fame Fate fhall fhine fhould fing firſt Flow'rs fome Fools foon ftill fuch fure fweet fwell Glories Grongar Hill Heart Heav'n Heav'nly HERBERT POWELL himſelf HORACE Houſe juft laſt Latium loft Lord Love Mind Mirth moſt Mufe Muſe muſt ne'er never Nuptial Tye Nymph o'er Ovid Paffion Pain paſs Phocis pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praiſe prefent Pride Proſpect purſue quæ Rage raiſe Reaſon Reſt rife rifus riſe Rome ſay ſee ſeen ſelf Senſe ſhall ſhe Show'r thine Influence Show'r thy Graces ſhows Song Soul ſpread ſtand ſtill ſtrange Tears Teucer Thee thefe theſe thoſe Thou thouſand Thracian thro Treaſure uſe Verfe VIII Virtue whofe Whoſe Wife Wiſdom Wiſh Youth
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Página 228 - But transient is the smile of Fate ! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 228 - And see the rivers how they run, Through woods and meads, in shade and sun Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life, to endless sleep...
Página 227 - And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps; So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. 'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th...
Página 83 - So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows ; Fairer than spring the colours shine, And sweeter than the virgin ros.e.
Página 42 - Why did you promise love to me, And not that promise keep? Why did you swear my eyes were bright, Yet leave those eyes to weep? " How could you say my face was fair, And yet that face forsake? How could you win my virgin heart, Yet leave that heart to break?
Página 55 - How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Página 230 - I lie; While the wanton zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep ; While the birds unbounded fly, And with music fill the sky, Now, ev'n now, my joys run high.
Página 225 - Does the face of nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow; And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.
Página 226 - Gaudy as the opening dawn, Lies a long and level lawn, On which a dark hill, steep and high, Holds and charms the wandering eye! Deep are his feet in Towy's flood, His sides are cloth'd with waving wood...
Página 229 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.