Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry: Vol. VI.John Bell, 1789 - 191 páginas |
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... reign : " Woman ! she cried , to thee , indulgent heaven Has all the charms of outward beauty given : Be thine the boast , unrival'd , to enslave The great , the wise , the witty , and the brave ; Deck'd with the Paphian rose's damask ...
... reign : " Woman ! she cried , to thee , indulgent heaven Has all the charms of outward beauty given : Be thine the boast , unrival'd , to enslave The great , the wise , the witty , and the brave ; Deck'd with the Paphian rose's damask ...
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... reign ; Where each fair neck the yoke of slavery galls , Clos'd in a proud seraglio's gloomy walls , And taught , that levell❜d with the brutal kind , Nor sense , nor souls to women are assign'd . Our British nymphs with happier omens ...
... reign ; Where each fair neck the yoke of slavery galls , Clos'd in a proud seraglio's gloomy walls , And taught , that levell❜d with the brutal kind , Nor sense , nor souls to women are assign'd . Our British nymphs with happier omens ...
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... reign , To Italy , and Britain's happier plain . Praise well - bestow'd adorns her glowing lines , And manly strength with female softness joins . So female charms and manly virtues grace , By her example form'd , her blooming race ...
... reign , To Italy , and Britain's happier plain . Praise well - bestow'd adorns her glowing lines , And manly strength with female softness joins . So female charms and manly virtues grace , By her example form'd , her blooming race ...
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... reign'd , in ROME The female virtues were allow'd to bloom , And bloom they did : when CANNÆ's fatal plain Was heap'd with mountains of the Roman slain , Was there a matron wept her children dead ? Was there a matron wept not those that ...
... reign'd , in ROME The female virtues were allow'd to bloom , And bloom they did : when CANNÆ's fatal plain Was heap'd with mountains of the Roman slain , Was there a matron wept her children dead ? Was there a matron wept not those that ...
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... reign'd o'er British rhymes , And present bards to MARGARETTA bow , For , what they were of old , is HARLEY now . From OXFORD's house , in these dull busy days , Alone we hope for patronage , or praise ; He to our slighted labors still ...
... reign'd o'er British rhymes , And present bards to MARGARETTA bow , For , what they were of old , is HARLEY now . From OXFORD's house , in these dull busy days , Alone we hope for patronage , or praise ; He to our slighted labors still ...
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adorn ATHENIA bard beauty beauty's Behold beneath blest bliss bloom boast bosom bowers breast bright charms Chryseis Clarissa DEAN SWIFT delight divine e'er envy EPISTLE eyes fair FALSTAFF fam'd fame fate female flow'rs fond form'd Friendship GARRICK genius glow goddess grace grove Hail hand happy heart heaven herse honor inspire isle JOHN DUNCOMBE join'd LADY laurel lays living color lov'd lyre merit mind mirth mourn Muse Muse's Nature's ne'er numbers Nymph o'er Orinda paint Pindus plain Plato pleas'd pleasure polish'd pow'r pride Queen rapture reign RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE rise rude sacred scene Scythian sense shade SHAKSPERE shine sing sister smiles soft song soul strains sung swain sweet taste taught tears thee thine thou thought thro throne truth tuneful verse virtue's virtues warbling WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Winchelsea wisdom's wonder youth ΤΟ
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Página 148 - With ardour as intense and pure, As when amidst the rites divine I took thy troth, and plighted mine, — To thee, sweet girl, my second ring, A token, and a pledge, I bring; With this I wed, till death us part, Thy riper virtues to my heart...
Página 145 - What hopes, what terrours does thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate ! The myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand ; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lovers...
Página 145 - Th' unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart, And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart! Soon muSt this bough, as you shall fix his doom, Adorn Philander's head, or grace his tomb.
Página 146 - All memory of endearments past, All hope of comforts long to last, All that makes fourteen years with you A summer — and a short one too : All that affection feels and fears, When hours, without you, seem like years. Till that be done, — and...
Página 177 - Courts ; of which she has acquired all the easy good-breeding, and politeness, without the frivolousness. She has all the reading that a woman should have ; and more than any woman need have; for she understands Latin perfectly well, though she wisely conceals it.
Página 113 - You the great act as generously rehearse, And all the English fury's in your verse. By your selected scenes and handsome choice, Ennobled Comedy exalts her voice; You check unjust esteem and fond desire, And teach to scorn what else we should admire...
Página 71 - Has glow'd untam'd, through many a martial age. Here patriot ALFRED, stain'd with Danish blood, Rear'd on one base, the king's, the people's good : Here HENRY'S archers fram'd the stubborn bow, That laid Alanzon's haughty helmet low : Here wak'd the flame, that still superior braves The proudest threats of Gaul's ambitious slaves : Here chivalry, stern school of valour old, Her noblest feats of knightly fame enroll'd : Heroic champions...
Página 148 - — Why not ? With that first ring I married youth, Grace, beauty, innocence, and truth ; Taste long admired, sense long revered, And all my Molly then appeared.
Página 72 - Hence ripe with stores her villages abound, Her airy downs with scatter'd sheep resound ; Fresh are her pastures with unceasing rills; And future navies crown her darksome hills. To bear her formidable glory far, Behold her opulence of hoarded war ! See, from her ports a thousand banners stream, On every...
Página 108 - How will my Fox, alone, thy strength of parts, Shake the loud senate, animate the hearts Of fearful statesmen ? while around you stand Both peers and commons listening your command ; While Tully's sense its weight to you affords, His nervous sweetness shall adorn your words : What praise to Pitt, to Townshend e'er was due, In future times, my Fox, shall wait on you.