The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Tom 22

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Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819
 

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Strona 173 - light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; And oft THY voice in dreadful thunder speaks: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales THY bounty shines in Autumn unconfin'd, And spreads a common feast for all that lives. In Winter awful
Strona 175 - ever pouring wide, Trom world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise. The thunder rolls: be hush'd the prostrate world: While cloud to cloud returns the solemn hymn. Bleat out afresh, ye hills: ye mossy rocks, Retain the sound: the broad responsive lowe, Ye valleys, raise; for the GBEAT
Strona 171 - noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up a while, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil is no more: The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all. HYMN. THESE, as they change,
Strona 148 - embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more. familiar grown, the table-crumbs
Strona 387 - FOB ever, fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part. But busy, busy still art thou, To bind the loveless joyless vow, The heart from pleasure to delude, To join the gentle to the rude.* For once,
Strona 48 - rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven! These are the matchless joys of virtuous love; And thus their moments fly. The seasons thus. As ceaseless round a jarring world they roll, Still find them happy ; and consenting
Strona 52 - Rous'd by the cock, the soon-clad shepherd leaves His mossy cottage, where with Peace he dwells; And from the crowded fold, in order, drives His flock, to taste the verdure of the morn. Falsely luxurious! will not Man awake; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song
Strona 396 - To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine ; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine. ' Rule,' &c. The Muses, still with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coast repair; Bless'd isle! with matchless beauty crown'd. And manly hearts to guard the fair: ' Rule, Britannia ! rule the waves, Britons never shall be slaves.
Strona 30 - plays Her idle freaks; from family diffus'd To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colours run ; and, while they break On the charm'd eye, the' exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. No gradual bloom is wanting ; from the bud, First-born of Spring, to Summer's musky
Strona 178 - Where nought but shadowy forms was seen to As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood : And up the hills, on either side, a wood Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out, below,

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