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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesæther ARISBE bard beauty beneath blest bliss bloom blush boast bosom bow'r breast breath bright brow charms clouds Columbel courser crown crown'd cry'd dæmons Dames dear delight drest e'er Ev'n eyes fair faithless fame Fancy fate fear flow'rs fond gentle grace grief grove hail hear heart heav'n Henry Pelham hill honour hour Latian Liberty light lov'd lover lyre maid mind Morpheus mote mourn Muse Muse's Naiads Nature's ne'er night numbers nymphs o'er pain pale passion peace pensive Pindar pity plain pleas'd pleasure Pompey pow'r praise pride rage rill rise round rove sacred sage scene scorn shade shine sigh sight smile soft song sorrow soul sound Squire stream swain sweet taste tears tempests thee thine thou thought throne toil train truth Twas vale Virgil's tomb virtue Virtue's voice wanton ween wend Whilst winds youth Popular passagesPage 11 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. Page 390 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed... Page 180 - And dreaded losses aggravate his pains; He turns, with anxious heart and crippled hands, His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. Page 10 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Page 7 - And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Page 168 - LET observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life... Page 14 - With Justice to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band... Page 389 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. Page 7 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Page 12 - Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When... Bibliographic information
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