The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, BoyseSamuel Johnson J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 - English poetry |
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... Muse renew her noblest lay . " VERSES OCCASIONED BY DR . FRAZER'S REBUILDING part of the UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN . In times long past , ere Wealth was Learning's foe , And dar'd despise the worth he would not know ; Ere mitred Pride ...
... Muse renew her noblest lay . " VERSES OCCASIONED BY DR . FRAZER'S REBUILDING part of the UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN . In times long past , ere Wealth was Learning's foe , And dar'd despise the worth he would not know ; Ere mitred Pride ...
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... Muse , creative power , Imagination ! at whose great command Arise unnumber'd images of things , Thy hourly offspring : thou , who can'st at will People with air - born shapes the silent wood , And solitary vale , thy own domain , Where ...
... Muse , creative power , Imagination ! at whose great command Arise unnumber'd images of things , Thy hourly offspring : thou , who can'st at will People with air - born shapes the silent wood , And solitary vale , thy own domain , Where ...
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... Muse would stone us , Yet honest Gideon's classic style ) Made our poor Nuncio stare and smile . And now the clock had struck eleven : The messenger must back to Heaven ; But , just as he his wings had ty'd , Look'd up Queen - Square ...
... Muse would stone us , Yet honest Gideon's classic style ) Made our poor Nuncio stare and smile . And now the clock had struck eleven : The messenger must back to Heaven ; But , just as he his wings had ty'd , Look'd up Queen - Square ...
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... Muse This airy rape delighted views ; Yet she , for honour guides her lays , Enjoying yet , disdains to praise . If Frenchmen always fight with odds , Are they a pattern for the gods ? Can Russia , can th ' Hungarian vampire 4 , With ...
... Muse This airy rape delighted views ; Yet she , for honour guides her lays , Enjoying yet , disdains to praise . If Frenchmen always fight with odds , Are they a pattern for the gods ? Can Russia , can th ' Hungarian vampire 4 , With ...
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... Muse and each fair Science pin'd away The sordid hours : while foul , barbarian hands 580 Their mysteries profan'd , unstrung the lyre , And chain'd the soaring pinion down to Earth . At last the Muses rose , and spurn'd their bonds ...
... Muse and each fair Science pin'd away The sordid hours : while foul , barbarian hands 580 Their mysteries profan'd , unstrung the lyre , And chain'd the soaring pinion down to Earth . At last the Muses rose , and spurn'd their bonds ...
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Page 147 - 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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...
Page 147 - Await alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 147 - Wisdom, in sable garb array'd, Immersed in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye that loves the ground...
Page 147 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 151 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 146 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around...
Page 146 - Gainst graver hours that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Page 147 - 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.
Page 482 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 151 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries—• No more I weep ; They do not sleep; On yonder cliffs, a...