Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, YoungAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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Sida 121
... STROPHE L WAKE the British harp again , To a sad melodious strain ; Wake the harp , whose every string , When Halifax resign'd his breath , Accus'd inexorable Death ; For I , once more , must in affliction sing , One song of sorrow more ...
... STROPHE L WAKE the British harp again , To a sad melodious strain ; Wake the harp , whose every string , When Halifax resign'd his breath , Accus'd inexorable Death ; For I , once more , must in affliction sing , One song of sorrow more ...
Sida 122
... STROPHE II . Hither sent , who knows the day When he shall be call'd away ? Various is the term assign'd : An hour , a day , some months , or years , The breathing soul on Earth appears : But , through the swift succession of mankind ...
... STROPHE II . Hither sent , who knows the day When he shall be call'd away ? Various is the term assign'd : An hour , a day , some months , or years , The breathing soul on Earth appears : But , through the swift succession of mankind ...
Sida 128
... STROPHE III . Measures 18 . A life of woe beyond relief , His portion now ; ordain'd before To torments of a three - fold grief , This fourth was added to complete his store , Since , high presuming in his soul , He nectar and ambrosia ...
... STROPHE III . Measures 18 . A life of woe beyond relief , His portion now ; ordain'd before To torments of a three - fold grief , This fourth was added to complete his store , Since , high presuming in his soul , He nectar and ambrosia ...
Sida 129
... STROPHE I. Measures 16 . SOVEREIGN hymns , whose numbers sway The sounding harp , what god , what hero , say , What man , shall we resound ? Is not Pisa Jove's delight ? And did not Hercules , with conquest crown'd , To him ordain Th ...
... STROPHE I. Measures 16 . SOVEREIGN hymns , whose numbers sway The sounding harp , what god , what hero , say , What man , shall we resound ? Is not Pisa Jove's delight ? And did not Hercules , with conquest crown'd , To him ordain Th ...
Sida 130
... STROPHE IV . Measures 16 . But the good , alike by night , -Alike by day , the Sun's unclouded light Beholding , ever blest , Live an unlaborious life , Nor anxious interrupt the hallow'd rest With spade and plow , The earth to vex , or ...
... STROPHE IV . Measures 16 . But the good , alike by night , -Alike by day , the Sun's unclouded light Beholding , ever blest , Live an unlaborious life , Nor anxious interrupt the hallow'd rest With spade and plow , The earth to vex , or ...
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ANTISTROPHE Aristagoras art thou beauty behold beneath bless blest bliss bloom boast bosom breast breath bright Camarina charms dark dear death deep delight divine dreadful e'en Earth ECLOGUE EPODE Ergoteles eternal eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame flowers fond genius glory grace grief Grongar Hill grove hand happy heart Heaven heavenly honour immortal king labour Lord Lorenzo lov'd lyre maid mighty mind mortal mourn Muse Nature Nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace Pelops Pindar plain pleas'd pleasure poem poet praise pride proud rage reign rise round sacred scene shade shine shore sigh sing skies smile soft song soul strain stream STROPHE swain sweet swell tears tempest terrour thee thine thou thought throne Tlepolemus toil truth vale verse virtue WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wing wise Xenocrates youth
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Sida 206 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail, Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Sida 205 - 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 ; And ever and anon he beat...
Sida 204 - 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...
Sida 206 - 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.
Sida 219 - 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 ! Still would her touch the strain prolong...
Sida 207 - 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 wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew...
Sida 422 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.
Sida 205 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Sida 328 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name...
Sida 425 - All promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan...