The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by dr. Wolcot, Volume 2John Wolcot 1804 |
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... sung : And trust the bard's unerring rule , For nature was that poet's school . As I was nodding in my chair , I saw a rueful wild appear : * Othello . No verdure met my aching sight , But hemlock and D 4 A VISION . 39.
... sung : And trust the bard's unerring rule , For nature was that poet's school . As I was nodding in my chair , I saw a rueful wild appear : * Othello . No verdure met my aching sight , But hemlock and D 4 A VISION . 39.
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... bards of ancient time , Or down the vale of Fancy go , To tear some modern wretch below . On ev'ry corner fix thine eye , Or ten to one he slips thee by . See where his teeth a passage eat : We'll rouse him from the deep retreat . But ...
... bards of ancient time , Or down the vale of Fancy go , To tear some modern wretch below . On ev'ry corner fix thine eye , Or ten to one he slips thee by . See where his teeth a passage eat : We'll rouse him from the deep retreat . But ...
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... Bards again . Come , bind the victim - there he lies ; And here between his num'rous eyes This venerable dust I lay , From manuscript just swept away . The goblet in my hand I take , ( For the libation's yet to make ) A health to poets ...
... Bards again . Come , bind the victim - there he lies ; And here between his num'rous eyes This venerable dust I lay , From manuscript just swept away . The goblet in my hand I take , ( For the libation's yet to make ) A health to poets ...
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... bard assenting bow'd ; The lay to Liberty and Cato flow'd ; While Echo , as she rov'd the vale along , Join'd the strong cadence of his Roman song . But , ah ! how Stillness slept upon the ground , How mute attention check'd each rising ...
... bard assenting bow'd ; The lay to Liberty and Cato flow'd ; While Echo , as she rov'd the vale along , Join'd the strong cadence of his Roman song . But , ah ! how Stillness slept upon the ground , How mute attention check'd each rising ...
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... bard's ingenuous woe , Soft as my stream , in tuneful numbers flow ? Yet strove his Muse , by fame or envy led , To tear the laurels from a sister's head.- Misguided youth ! with rude unclassic rage To blot the beauties of thy whiter ...
... bard's ingenuous woe , Soft as my stream , in tuneful numbers flow ? Yet strove his Muse , by fame or envy led , To tear the laurels from a sister's head.- Misguided youth ! with rude unclassic rage To blot the beauties of thy whiter ...
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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