The Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, Volume 2J. Murray, 1823 - English poetry |
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Page 22
... fathers when they'd run their race : We too shall rest , and then our children keep Their road in life , and then , forgotten , sleep ; Meanwhile the building slowly falls away , And , like the builders , will in time decay . The old ...
... fathers when they'd run their race : We too shall rest , and then our children keep Their road in life , and then , forgotten , sleep ; Meanwhile the building slowly falls away , And , like the builders , will in time decay . The old ...
Page 26
... father , be in praise outdone . This may be nature ; when our friends we lose , Our alter'd feelings alter too our views ; What in their tempers teased us or distress'd , Is , with our anger and the dead , at rest ; And much we grieve ...
... father , be in praise outdone . This may be nature ; when our friends we lose , Our alter'd feelings alter too our views ; What in their tempers teased us or distress'd , Is , with our anger and the dead , at rest ; And much we grieve ...
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... Father -The dutiful Regard of his numerous Family - His Plea- sure as a Writer , how interrupted- No Resource in the Press - Vulgar Insult - His Account of a Literary Society , and a Fund for the Relief of indigent Authors , & c . THE ...
... Father -The dutiful Regard of his numerous Family - His Plea- sure as a Writer , how interrupted- No Resource in the Press - Vulgar Insult - His Account of a Literary Society , and a Fund for the Relief of indigent Authors , & c . THE ...
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... father saw his powers- " I'll give , " quoth he , " My first - born learning ; ' twill a portion be : " Unhappy gift ... father's tears ; A wife grown feeble , mourning , pining , vex'd , With wants and woes - by daily cares perplex'd ...
... father saw his powers- " I'll give , " quoth he , " My first - born learning ; ' twill a portion be : " Unhappy gift ... father's tears ; A wife grown feeble , mourning , pining , vex'd , With wants and woes - by daily cares perplex'd ...
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... father something they'd procure , To ease the burthen they themselves endure . Virtues like these at once delight and press On the fond father with a proud distress ; On all around he looks with care and love , Grieved to behold , but ...
... father something they'd procure , To ease the burthen they themselves endure . Virtues like these at once delight and press On the fond father with a proud distress ; On all around he looks with care and love , Grieved to behold , but ...
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Arminian behold Blaney BOROUGH byssus Calvinistic cheerful comfort cried crime dare deed delight dread dwell ease evil fame fate favourite fear feel felt fix'd foes friends gain'd GEORGE CRABBE give gout grace grave grief grieve hear heart honour hope hour humble Jachin John Bunyan Juvenal kind labour LETTER live look look'd man's meads of asphodel mind misery never night numbers nymphs o'er once Ovid oxymel pain pass'd passions peace Peter PETER GRIMES pity pleasant pleasure poison'd poor praise pride priest race racter reader rest rise Satan scenes scorn seat seem'd shame sigh Sir Denys sleep slow centuries smile soothed soul speech spirit spleen terrors thee thou thought town trade trembling tried truth twas vex'd vicar vice virtue wealth whist worth wretched youth