Third period - From Dryden to CowperJames Nichol, 1860 |
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... laws ; That can deliberate , means elect , and find Their due connexion with the end designed . And since the world's wide frame does not include A cause with such capacities endued , Some other cause o'er nature must preside , Which ...
... laws ; That can deliberate , means elect , and find Their due connexion with the end designed . And since the world's wide frame does not include A cause with such capacities endued , Some other cause o'er nature must preside , Which ...
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... laws were given ; And saints , who taught and led the way to heaven ; Ne'er to these chambers , where the mighty rest , Since their foundation came a nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more ...
... laws were given ; And saints , who taught and led the way to heaven ; Ne'er to these chambers , where the mighty rest , Since their foundation came a nobler guest ; Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more ...
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... law of Sir Robert Walpole , and a man of some note in his day . He was born in 1710 ; educated at Westminster school ; became equerry to the Prince of Wales ; fell in love with a lady named Dashwood , who rejected him , and drove him to ...
... law of Sir Robert Walpole , and a man of some note in his day . He was born in 1710 ; educated at Westminster school ; became equerry to the Prince of Wales ; fell in love with a lady named Dashwood , who rejected him , and drove him to ...
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... laws , Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause , From all the dry devoirs of blood and line , From ties maternal , moral , and divine , Discharged my grasping soul ; pushed me from shore , And launched me into life without an oar ...
... laws , Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause , From all the dry devoirs of blood and line , From ties maternal , moral , and divine , Discharged my grasping soul ; pushed me from shore , And launched me into life without an oar ...
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... whole designs . Not empire to the rising sun By valour , conduct , fortune won ; Not highest wisdom in debates For framing laws to govern 53 1640-1800 . ] [ SWIFT . THE LESS - KNOWN BRITISH POETS . Baucis and Philemon On Poetry.
... whole designs . Not empire to the rising sun By valour , conduct , fortune won ; Not highest wisdom in debates For framing laws to govern 53 1640-1800 . ] [ SWIFT . THE LESS - KNOWN BRITISH POETS . Baucis and Philemon On Poetry.
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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!