Miscellaneous Poems: By Several HandsDavid Lewis J. Watts, 1726 - 320 páginas |
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... best : A Seat well - chofe in wholefome Air , With Gardens and with Profpects fair : His Land from Debt and Jointure free ; His Money , never in South - Sea ; His Health of Body firm and good , Tho ' His 20 Mifcellaneous Poems .
... best : A Seat well - chofe in wholefome Air , With Gardens and with Profpects fair : His Land from Debt and Jointure free ; His Money , never in South - Sea ; His Health of Body firm and good , Tho ' His 20 Mifcellaneous Poems .
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... Profpect see In the fad Gloom of dark Futurity ? Who dreamt that Man once Duft fhall never rife , That when the Carcase falls the Spirit dies . If quite extinct , infenfible of Fame , Yet barr'd the poor Reversion of a Name . While yet ...
... Profpect see In the fad Gloom of dark Futurity ? Who dreamt that Man once Duft fhall never rife , That when the Carcase falls the Spirit dies . If quite extinct , infenfible of Fame , Yet barr'd the poor Reversion of a Name . While yet ...
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... Profpect of a Dow'ry . III . If e'er in other Sphere you move , And higher Life appear in ; Take heed the Station does not prove The worse for Kitty's wearing . IV . If from Simplicity you range , If Shew IV . If 90 Mifcellaneous Poems ...
... Profpect of a Dow'ry . III . If e'er in other Sphere you move , And higher Life appear in ; Take heed the Station does not prove The worse for Kitty's wearing . IV . If from Simplicity you range , If Shew IV . If 90 Mifcellaneous Poems ...
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... fome craggy Cliff from far With Pleasure we furvey ; And , with the diftant Profpect fir'd , Streight thither make our Way : IV . But IV . But find at length , with Pains arriv'd 132 Mifcellaneous Poems . Another Ibid On Human Life 93034.
... fome craggy Cliff from far With Pleasure we furvey ; And , with the diftant Profpect fir'd , Streight thither make our Way : IV . But IV . But find at length , with Pains arriv'd 132 Mifcellaneous Poems . Another Ibid On Human Life 93034.
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... Profpect hide ; While on your Back their Fleeces glow , And warm you with a purple Pride . X. Me chearful , tho ' with mean Estate , The Mufe with Talents has endow'd , And the propitious Hand of Fate Has kindly rais'd above the Crowd ...
... Profpect hide ; While on your Back their Fleeces glow , And warm you with a purple Pride . X. Me chearful , tho ' with mean Estate , The Mufe with Talents has endow'd , And the propitious Hand of Fate Has kindly rais'd above the Crowd ...
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Æneid antient Atoms entertain Beauty Bleffings bleft boaſt Breaſt Cauſe Charms cloſe Courſe cùm Death diſplay e'er Eafe Earth endleſs EPIGRAM Ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fair Fame Fate felf fhall fhine fhould fhow fing firſt flow fmile foft fome Fools foon ftill fuch Glories Grief Grongar Grongar Hill hafte Heart Heav'n Heav'nly HERBERT POWELL himſelf Houſe juft juſt laft laſt Latium loft Lord Love Mind moſt Muſe muſt ne'er never Numantian War Nuptial Tye Nymph o'er Orphans land Paffion Pain paſs Phocis pleaſe Pleaſure Pow'r Praiſe preſent Profpect Rage raiſe Reaſon Reſt rife rifus riſe ſay ſee ſeen Senſe ſhall ſhe Show'r thine Influence Show'r thy Graces Song Soul ſpread ſtand ſtay Sthenelus ſtill ſweet Tears Teucer Thee thefe theſe thoſe Thou thouſand Thracian thro Treaſure uſe VIII Virtue whofe Whoſe Wife Wiſdom Wiſh Youth
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Página 40 - 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 228 - 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 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 224 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal ; The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others...
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 224 - And lessen as the others rise : Still the prospect wider spreads, Adds a thousand woods and meads ; Still it widens, widens still, And sinks the newly-risen hill. Now I gain the mountain's brow...
Página 53 - 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 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.