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Page xxii
... fear being distanced . Remember me to all friends , and above them all to Mr Forbes . Though my affection to him is not fanned by letters , yet is it as high as when I was his brother in the virtu , and played at chefs with him in a ...
... fear being distanced . Remember me to all friends , and above them all to Mr Forbes . Though my affection to him is not fanned by letters , yet is it as high as when I was his brother in the virtu , and played at chefs with him in a ...
Page xxvii
... fear of the ladies before his eyes , he was guilty of high treason against their sovereign beau- ty , by uttering certain base , fcandalous , and traiterous words , for the which he must in due time undergo his trial ; George Scot ...
... fear of the ladies before his eyes , he was guilty of high treason against their sovereign beau- ty , by uttering certain base , fcandalous , and traiterous words , for the which he must in due time undergo his trial ; George Scot ...
Page xxxii
... fear , grows tedious . I will detain you from your flumbers no longer , but conclude by wishing that the waters and exercife may bring down your fat fides , and that you may return a genteel accomplished dog . Pray lick for me , you ...
... fear , grows tedious . I will detain you from your flumbers no longer , but conclude by wishing that the waters and exercife may bring down your fat fides , and that you may return a genteel accomplished dog . Pray lick for me , you ...
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... fear , of feeble fancies full , Weak and unmanly , loofens every power . Even love itself is bitterness of foul , A pensive anguish pining at the heart ; Or , funk to fordid intereft , feels no more That noble wish , that never - cloy'd ...
... fear , of feeble fancies full , Weak and unmanly , loofens every power . Even love itself is bitterness of foul , A pensive anguish pining at the heart ; Or , funk to fordid intereft , feels no more That noble wish , that never - cloy'd ...
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... fear . At laft , while haply o'er the fhaded fun Passes a cloud , he desperate takes the death , With fullen plunge . At once he darts along , Deep - struck , and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; 430 Then feeks the fartheft ooze , the ...
... fear . At laft , while haply o'er the fhaded fun Passes a cloud , he desperate takes the death , With fullen plunge . At once he darts along , Deep - struck , and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; 430 Then feeks the fartheft ooze , the ...
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Page 235 - Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 233 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 53 - Till far o'er ether spreads the widening glow And from before the lustre of her face White break the clouds away. With quickened step Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top Swell on the sight and brighten with the dawn. Blue through the dusk the smoking currents shine, And from the bladed field the fearful hare Limps awkward, while along the forest glade The wild deer trip and often turning gaze At early passenger.
Page 237 - Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the...
Page 235 - Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound his stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Page 196 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 199 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 98 - The dash of clouds, or irritating war Of fighting winds, while all is calm below, They furious spring. A boding silence reigns, Dread through the dun...
Page 215 - An icy gale, oft shifting, o'er the pool Breathes a blue film, and in its mid career Arrests the bickering stream.
Page 233 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year: And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks, And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves in hollow-whispering gales.