The Poetical Works of Mr. William CollinsT. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 - 124 páginas |
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... charms of verse are made use of , to illustrate subjects which in their own nature are affecting or interesting . Such are Didactic and Dra- matic compositions . Such is the Epic , where a story , a series of adventures , carries the ...
... charms of verse are made use of , to illustrate subjects which in their own nature are affecting or interesting . Such are Didactic and Dra- matic compositions . Such is the Epic , where a story , a series of adventures , carries the ...
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... charm in their versification , " In vain she boasts her fairest of the fair , " Their eyes ' blue languish and their golden hair . ” He adds " Those hairs the Tartar's cruel hand shall rend . " With equal truth of penciling does he mark ...
... charm in their versification , " In vain she boasts her fairest of the fair , " Their eyes ' blue languish and their golden hair . ” He adds " Those hairs the Tartar's cruel hand shall rend . " With equal truth of penciling does he mark ...
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... charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain , That love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermin beautify ...
... charms they boast , By sense unaided , or to virtue lost . Self - flattering sex ! your hearts believe in vain , That love shall blind , when once he fires the swain ; Or hope a lover by your faults to win , As spots on ermin beautify ...
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... charm his frantic woe : When first Distress , with dagger keen , Broke forth to waste his destin'd scene , His wild unsated foe ! By Pella's bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long ...
... charm his frantic woe : When first Distress , with dagger keen , Broke forth to waste his destin'd scene , His wild unsated foe ! By Pella's bard , a magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long ...
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... charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest breathe , Tho ' beauty cull'd the wreath , Still ask thy hand to range their order'd hues . While Rome could none esteem But virtue's patriot theme , You lov'd her hills , and led her laureate ...
... charms infuse ! The flowers that sweetest breathe , Tho ' beauty cull'd the wreath , Still ask thy hand to range their order'd hues . While Rome could none esteem But virtue's patriot theme , You lov'd her hills , and led her laureate ...
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The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins: With a Prefatory Essay William Collins Vista completa - 1797 |
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Abra lov'd AGIB allegory ANTISTROPHE bade that Crook bard beautiful blest breathing Cadell & Davies charm Circassia COLLINS Coriolanus crook and bleating CYMBELINE delight deserts dreary drest drooping Druid dwell ECLOGUE English language EPODE ev'ry eyes fair Fancy fated Fear fix'd flowers gentle Georgian maid Greece green grief grove hair hand haste haunt hear heart Hebrides ideas inspir'd isle join'd Julius Cæsar lyre magic maid like Abra melt midst mind mountains mourn Muse Music myrtles native Nature numbers nymph o'er OLD BAILEY pale passions Peace piece Pity plains Poem Poet poet's POETICAL Poetry possest pour'd Published by Cadell rage round scene Schiraz SECANDER shade shadowy shepherds shore shriek sighs SIR THOMAS HANMER soft song sorrow sound spear spirit springs sung swain sweet sword tears tender thee thou thought thro toil train truth vale western isle wild winds world unknown
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Página 99 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Página 82 - He threw his blood-stain'd sword, in thunder, down ; And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe...
Página 79 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
Página 9 - Or moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz
Página 46 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 66 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 67 - Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit...
Página 81 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Página 83 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Página 86 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound : And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. O Music ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid, Why, Goddess! why, to us denied, Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside...