The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by dr. Wolcot, Volume 2John Wolcot 1804 |
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... Bids candid Smollet from his coffin steal ; Bids Mallock quit his sweet Elysian rest , Sunk in his St. John's philosophic breast , And , like old Orpheus , make some strong effort AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO.
... Bids candid Smollet from his coffin steal ; Bids Mallock quit his sweet Elysian rest , Sunk in his St. John's philosophic breast , And , like old Orpheus , make some strong effort AN HEROIC EPISTLE TO.
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... bid yon live - long Terrace re - ascend , Replace each vista , straiten every bend ; Shut out the Thames - Shall that ignoble thing 65 Approach the presence of great Ocean's King ? No ! let Barbaric glories feast his eyes , August ...
... bid yon live - long Terrace re - ascend , Replace each vista , straiten every bend ; Shut out the Thames - Shall that ignoble thing 65 Approach the presence of great Ocean's King ? No ! let Barbaric glories feast his eyes , August ...
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... , ye faithless crew , His Muse's vengeance shall your crimes pursue , Stretch you on Satire's rack , and bid you lie Fit garbage for the hell - hound Infamy ! SELIM ; OR , THE SHEPHERD'S MORAL . AN ORIENTAL 22 AN HEROIC POSTSCRIPT , & c .
... , ye faithless crew , His Muse's vengeance shall your crimes pursue , Stretch you on Satire's rack , and bid you lie Fit garbage for the hell - hound Infamy ! SELIM ; OR , THE SHEPHERD'S MORAL . AN ORIENTAL 22 AN HEROIC POSTSCRIPT , & c .
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... Bid to the skies th ' ambitious tow'r ascend ; The cirque its vast majestic length extend ; Bid arcs of triumph swell their graceful round ; Or mausoleums load th ' encumber'd ground ; Or Sculpture speak in animated stone Of vanquish'd ...
... Bid to the skies th ' ambitious tow'r ascend ; The cirque its vast majestic length extend ; Bid arcs of triumph swell their graceful round ; Or mausoleums load th ' encumber'd ground ; Or Sculpture speak in animated stone Of vanquish'd ...
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... bids the soul to glorious heights aspire ; Enlarge her wishes , and extend her sight Beyond this little Life's contracted round , And wing her eagle flight To grandeur , fame , and bliss without a bound . Ambition's ardent hopes , and ...
... bids the soul to glorious heights aspire ; Enlarge her wishes , and extend her sight Beyond this little Life's contracted round , And wing her eagle flight To grandeur , fame , and bliss without a bound . Ambition's ardent hopes , and ...
Common terms and phrases
adorn'd awful bard beneath bids blessing blest boast breast breath Brentford brow charms cheek CLODIO convey'd cried crowd crown'd dare dome e'en e'er Emperor of China Ev'n ev'ry fair fame Fancy fane Fannius fate fix'd flow'rs foes Freedom Freedom calls gibbets glories grace groves guiltless hand hark head heart Heroic Epistle impious Isis Jemmy Twitcher Lacedemon lie Fit lov'd maid majestic mind Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er pale paleful rivers patriot peace PETER PINDAR PINDAR plain plann'd pleas'd poet poison'd pow'r praise pride proud rage rise round sacred sage scene Scylla or Charybdis shade shepherds shine shore sighs Sir William Chambers Slander slave smile smiling train soft solemn song sons soul sport spring Stephen Duck stream sublime swain sweet tear tender thee thine thou tow'r train trembling truth vale Verse virtue waves wild wings youth
Popular passages
Page 50 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Page 48 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Page 32 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is...
Page 66 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Page 60 - Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or...
Page 117 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound my heart. The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.
Page 120 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The Child of Sorrow and of Misery...
Page 50 - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 61 - Wisheth her health, and joy, and equal love. Meanwhile, he smokes, and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. But I, whom griping Penury surrounds, And Hunger, sure attendant upon Want, With scanty offals...
Page 31 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i