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Plants , ground , and water , are her only productions ; and , though both the
forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree , yet
have they but few striking varieties , the rest being of the nature of “ changes rung
upon ...
Plants , ground , and water , are her only productions ; and , though both the
forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree , yet
have they but few striking varieties , the rest being of the nature of “ changes rung
upon ...
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If this they dare , the thunder of his song , Rolling in deep - ton ' s energy along ,
Shall strike , with Truth ' s dead bolt , each miscreant ' s name , . 105 Who , dead
to duty , senseless e ' en to shame , Betray ' d his country . Yes , ye faithless crew
...
If this they dare , the thunder of his song , Rolling in deep - ton ' s energy along ,
Shall strike , with Truth ' s dead bolt , each miscreant ' s name , . 105 Who , dead
to duty , senseless e ' en to shame , Betray ' d his country . Yes , ye faithless crew
...
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I strike the scales that arm thee round , And twice and thrice I print the wound ;
The sacred altar floats with red , And now he dies and now he ' s dead . How like
the son of Jove I stand , This Hydra stretch ' d beneath my hand ! Lay bare the ...
I strike the scales that arm thee round , And twice and thrice I print the wound ;
The sacred altar floats with red , And now he dies and now he ' s dead . How like
the son of Jove I stand , This Hydra stretch ' d beneath my hand ! Lay bare the ...
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... of harmonious sounds , When the soft lute or pealing organ strikes The well -
attemper ' d ear ; nor the sweet breath Of ... So charm with ravishment the raptur '
d sense , As does the voice of well - deserv ' d report Strike with sweet melody ...
... of harmonious sounds , When the soft lute or pealing organ strikes The well -
attemper ' d ear ; nor the sweet breath Of ... So charm with ravishment the raptur '
d sense , As does the voice of well - deserv ' d report Strike with sweet melody ...
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... The piercing notes shall strike each British ear ' s * Each British eye shall drop
the patriot tear ! VOL . II . “ And , rous ' d to glory hy the ISIS .
... The piercing notes shall strike each British ear ' s * Each British eye shall drop
the patriot tear ! VOL . II . “ And , rous ' d to glory hy the ISIS .
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Términos y frases comunes
appear awful bard beauty beneath Bids blessing boast breast breath bring brow courts crowd dare deep dome ev'ry fair fame fate fire foes Freedom garden give glories grace hand happy head hear heart Heaven hour Isis kind King lead leave light maid mind Muse Nature o'er once pale peace Persian plain pleasure poet poor pow'r praise pride proud rage rest rise roll round sacred scene secret seen sense shade Shepherd SHILLING shine sigh sing slave smile smoke soft song sons soul sound sport spread spring stand steps stream strike sublime sweet taste taught tear tender thee thine thou thought tow'r train trembling truth vale Verse virtue wanting waste waves wild wings youth
Pasajes populares
Página 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 favorite name ! THE PASSIONS.
Página 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...
Página 49 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the freshening dew, and lovelier still The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car.
Página 48 - 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, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Página 30 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Página 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...
Página 30 - mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckled breast! When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield, But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Página 66 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Página 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...
Página 118 - Immersed in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend ; Warm Charity, the general friend, With Justice to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad...
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| Título | The Beauties of English Poetry: Selected from the Most Esteemed Authors, ... Containing Several Original Pieces, Never Before Published, Volumen2 Volumen2 de The Beauties of English Poetry, Peter Pindar The Beauties of English Poetry: Selected from the Most Esteemed Authors, ... Containing Several Original Pieces, Never Before Published, Peter Pindar |
| Autor | Peter Pindar |
| Editor | W. Spilsbury, 1804 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 11 Jul. 2007 |
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