The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and Improvements : to which is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the AuthorAlexander Donaldson, 1774 |
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... ages , mine : Nor bursts my fleeping thunder on their head . Whence this unwonted patience ? this weak doubt ? This tame befeeching of rejected peace ? This meek forbearance ? this unnative fear , To gen'rous Britons never known before ...
... ages , mine : Nor bursts my fleeping thunder on their head . Whence this unwonted patience ? this weak doubt ? This tame befeeching of rejected peace ? This meek forbearance ? this unnative fear , To gen'rous Britons never known before ...
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... ages held in its capacious womb . But foon , regardless of the cumbrous pomp , My dauntless Britons came , a gloomy few , With tempeft black , the goodly fcene deform'd , And laid their glory waste . The bolts of fate Refistless thunder ...
... ages held in its capacious womb . But foon , regardless of the cumbrous pomp , My dauntless Britons came , a gloomy few , With tempeft black , the goodly fcene deform'd , And laid their glory waste . The bolts of fate Refistless thunder ...
第 13 頁
... age . Oh first of human bleffings ! and fupreme ! Fair Peace ! how lovely , how delightful thou ! By whose wide tie , the kindred fons of men , Like brothers live , in amity combin'd , And unfufpicious faith ; while honest toil Gives ev ...
... age . Oh first of human bleffings ! and fupreme ! Fair Peace ! how lovely , how delightful thou ! By whose wide tie , the kindred fons of men , Like brothers live , in amity combin'd , And unfufpicious faith ; while honest toil Gives ev ...
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... ages roll it far away From you , ye heav'n - belov'd ! may liberty , The light of life ! the fun of human - kind ! Whence heroes , bards , and patriots borrow flame , Ev'n where the keen depreffive north descends , Still spread , exalt ...
... ages roll it far away From you , ye heav'n - belov'd ! may liberty , The light of life ! the fun of human - kind ! Whence heroes , bards , and patriots borrow flame , Ev'n where the keen depreffive north descends , Still spread , exalt ...
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... ages down to her excellent establishment in GREAT BRITAIN , can at all merit your approbation , and prove an entertainment to YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS ; if it can in any degree answer the dignity of the fubject , and of the name under which ...
... ages down to her excellent establishment in GREAT BRITAIN , can at all merit your approbation , and prove an entertainment to YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS ; if it can in any degree answer the dignity of the fubject , and of the name under which ...
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第 204 頁 - One day there chanced into these halls to rove A joyous youth, who took you at first sight ; Him the wild wave of pleasure hither drove, Before the sprightly tempest tossing light...
第 205 頁 - Him through their inmost walks the muses lad, To him the sacred love of nature lent, And sometimes would he make our valley glad; Whenas we found he would not here be pent, To him the better sort this friendly message sent: LXVI.
第 206 頁 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
第 201 頁 - Wide pour'd abroad behold the giddy crew ; See how they dash along from wall to wall ! At every door, hark, how they thundering call ! Good Lord ! what can this giddy rout excite ? Why, on each other with fell tooth to fall ; A neighbour's fortune, fame, or peace, to blight, And make new tiresome parties for the coming night. The puzzling sons of party next appear'd, ' In dark cabals and nightly juntos met ; And now they whisper'd close, now shrugging rear'd Th' important shoulder; then, as if to...
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第 186 頁 - Or prowl in courts of law for human prey, In venal senate thieve, or rob on broad highway.
第 240 頁 - Brentford town, a town of mud, An herd of bristly swine is prick'd along; The filthy beasts, that never chew the cud, Still grunt, and squeak, and sing their troublous song, And oft they plunge themselves the mire among...