The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Σελίδα 15
... fields , and female feet , Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season , and with such a charge , Once went I forth ; and found , till ...
... fields , and female feet , Too weak to struggle with tenacious clay , Or ford the rivulets , are best at home , The task of new discoveries falls on me . At such a season , and with such a charge , Once went I forth ; and found , till ...
Σελίδα 16
... field ; but scatter'd by degrees , Each to his choice , soon whiten all the land . There from the sunburnt hayfield homeward creeps The loaded wain ; while , lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it passes swiftly by ; The ...
... field ; but scatter'd by degrees , Each to his choice , soon whiten all the land . There from the sunburnt hayfield homeward creeps The loaded wain ; while , lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it passes swiftly by ; The ...
Σελίδα 19
... . The love of Nature and the scenes she draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there should be found , Who , self - imprison'd in their proud saloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented THE SOFA . 19.
... . The love of Nature and the scenes she draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there should be found , Who , self - imprison'd in their proud saloons , Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented THE SOFA . 19.
Σελίδα 20
Including Translations ... British poets. Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom ; Who , satisfied with only pencil'd scenes , Prefer to the performance of a God The ' inferior wonders of an artist's ...
Including Translations ... British poets. Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom ; Who , satisfied with only pencil'd scenes , Prefer to the performance of a God The ' inferior wonders of an artist's ...
Σελίδα 21
... fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find- He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns ; The lowering eye , the petulance , the frown And sullen ...
... fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find- He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns ; The lowering eye , the petulance , the frown And sullen ...
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath betimes bird boast breath call'd cause charms Chiswick death delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fast fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast heard heart Heaven honour labour learn'd less life's live lost lyre Mighty winds mind Muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure poets praise prize proud prove rapture rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil truth Twas virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worm worth youth
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Σελίδα 83 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Σελίδα 197 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords.
Σελίδα 56 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Σελίδα 208 - WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows, Where'er the healing water flows...
Σελίδα 127 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Σελίδα 229 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Σελίδα 150 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Σελίδα 81 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen all tranquillity and smiles.
Σελίδα 127 - So manifold in cares, whose every day Brings its own evil with it, makes it less : For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large.
Σελίδα 229 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.