Poems on Several Occasions: By the Rev. Mr John Pomfret. Viz. I. The Choice. ... VI. On the Conflagration, ... With Some Account of His Life and Writings. To which are Added, His Remains

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W. Darling, 1778 - 162 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 16 - I'd shun, with as much studious care, As I would dens where hungry lions are ; And rather put up injuries, than be A plague to him, who'd be a plague to me. I value quiet at a price too great, To give for my revenge...
Σελίδα 14 - Obliging, open, without huffing, brave; Brisk in gay talking, and in sober, grave: Close in dispute, but not tenacious; try'd By...
Σελίδα 13 - I'd have a clear and competent estate, That I might live genteelly, but not great ; As much as I could moderately spend ; A little more, sometimes t' oblige a friend. Nor should the sons of poverty repine Too much at fortune ; they should taste of mine ; And all that objects of true pity were, Should be...
Σελίδα 30 - I come, on embassy divine, To tell thee, Delia, Delia may be thine ; To whom all beauties rightful tribute pay ; Delia the young, the lovely, and the gay. If you dare...
Σελίδα 48 - Some well-deftgn'd, inftruftive poem read ; Where ufeful morals, with foft numbers join'd, At once delight and cultivate the mind : Which are by her to more...
Σελίδα 58 - To give to summer fruits a winter birth; In vain we autumn wait, which crowns the fields With wealthy crops, and various plenty yields; Since that fair nymph, for whom the boundless store Of Nature was preserved, is now no more!
Σελίδα 64 - Sorrow both fo many Ways can wound : 'Tis not fo great a Wonder that we grieve Sometimes, as 'tis a Miracle we live. THE...
Σελίδα 102 - When he had nothing but his nurse's arms To guard him from innumerable fatal harms: From childhood how to youth he ran Securely, and from thence to man ; How, in the...
Σελίδα 12 - I'd ne'er endure The needless pomp of gaudy furniture. A little garden, grateful to the eye ; And a cool rivulet run murmuring by : On whose delicious banks a stately row Of shady limes, or sycamores should grow. At th...
Σελίδα 120 - Taftelefs, or bitter, all ; And, like the Book which the Apoftle eat, To the ill-judging Palate fweet, But turn at laft to Naufeoufnefs and Gall. Nothing will then our drooping Spirits chear, But the Remembrance of good Adions paft. Virtue's a Joy that will for ever laft, And makes pale Death lefs terrible appear ; Takes out his baneful Sting, and palliates our Fear.

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