Third period - From Dryden to CowperJames Nichol, 1860 |
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... Fame , Power , and Wealth away : The past is all by death possessed ; And frugal fate that guards the rest , By giving , bids him live To - Day . 8 O Gower ! through all the destined space , What breath the Powers allot to me Shall sing ...
... Fame , Power , and Wealth away : The past is all by death possessed ; And frugal fate that guards the rest , By giving , bids him live To - Day . 8 O Gower ! through all the destined space , What breath the Powers allot to me Shall sing ...
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... fame , She , to receive thy radiant name , Selects a whiter space . ROBERT CRAWFORD . ROBERT CRAWFORD , a Scotchman , is our next poet . Of him we know only that he was the brother of Colonel Crawford of Achinames ; that he assisted ...
... fame , She , to receive thy radiant name , Selects a whiter space . ROBERT CRAWFORD . ROBERT CRAWFORD , a Scotchman , is our next poet . Of him we know only that he was the brother of Colonel Crawford of Achinames ; that he assisted ...
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... fame . In 1725 , he was made secretary to the Lords - Justices of Ireland , a place of great trust and honour , and which he retained till his death . This event happened at Bath , in the year 1740 . His genius was not strong , but ...
... fame . In 1725 , he was made secretary to the Lords - Justices of Ireland , a place of great trust and honour , and which he retained till his death . This event happened at Bath , in the year 1740 . His genius was not strong , but ...
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... fame , Nor he survived to give , nor thou to claim . Swift after him thy social spirit flies , And close to his , how soon ! thy coffin lies . Blest pair ! whose union future bards shall tell In future tongues : each other's boast ...
... fame , Nor he survived to give , nor thou to claim . Swift after him thy social spirit flies , And close to his , how soon ! thy coffin lies . Blest pair ! whose union future bards shall tell In future tongues : each other's boast ...
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... fame . He might perhaps his country's friend have proved ; Both happy , generous , candid , and beloved , He might have saved some worth , now doomed to fall ; And I , perchance , in him , have murdered all . O fate of late repentance ...
... fame . He might perhaps his country's friend have proved ; Both happy , generous , candid , and beloved , He might have saved some worth , now doomed to fall ; And I , perchance , in him , have murdered all . O fate of late repentance ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Allan Ramsay arms bard beauty became Behold beneath bless blest bloom bonny born Braes of Yarrow breast breath busk Canynge charms clouds Cumnor dear death delight died divine Dr Johnson e'er Edinburgh eyes fair fame father fear Fingal flame flowers frae genius grace green grove hast head hear heart heaven hills Invermay Isaac Watts JAMES MACPHERSON JANE ELLIOT Jenny king light live Lochaber Lord maid married maun mild ale mind Monody morning mournful Muse nature's ne'er never night o'er Ossian peace Peggy poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise rose round scene scorn shade sigh sing Sir Charles smile soft song soul spirit spring Stephen Duck sweet Swift tears thee thine THOMAS CHATTERTON thou thought Twas verse virtue voice waves weep wife wind wrote Yarrow youth
Pasajes populares
Página 146 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 201 - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Página 145 - WEEP ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: But weep sore for him that goeth away : For he shall return no more, Nor see his native country.
Página 305 - E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, — Tell them...
Página 129 - My master carries me to church, And often am I blamed Because I leave him in the lurch As soon as text is named ; I leave the church in sermon-time And slink away to Sally ; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Página 305 - Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died.
Página 97 - Soft and easy is thy cradle: Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay, When His birthplace was a stable And His softest bed was hay.
Página 74 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall, (I wish I knew what king to call.; Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Página 169 - Strong is the lion — like a coal His eyeball — like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous whale Emerges as he goes.
Página 73 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I 'm sorry — but we all must die!