The Nursery Garland: Being a Selection of Short, Classical Poems, Adapted to Very Early Youth; Respectfully Inscribed to the Mothers of FamiliesJ. Harris, 1801 - 172 страница |
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... Thine is the doubtful foft decline , And that best hour of musing thine . Defcending angels bless thy train , The virtues of the fage , and fwain ; Plain innocence , in white array'd , ; Before thee THE NURSERY GARLAND . 11.
... Thine is the doubtful foft decline , And that best hour of musing thine . Defcending angels bless thy train , The virtues of the fage , and fwain ; Plain innocence , in white array'd , ; Before thee THE NURSERY GARLAND . 11.
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... me rove , And own thy chearful fway ! For fhort - liv'd are thy pleasing powers & Pafs but a few uncertain hours , And we no more shall trace Thy dimpled cheek and brow ferene ; Or clouds may C 3 THE NURSERY GARLAND . 17.
... me rove , And own thy chearful fway ! For fhort - liv'd are thy pleasing powers & Pafs but a few uncertain hours , And we no more shall trace Thy dimpled cheek and brow ferene ; Or clouds may C 3 THE NURSERY GARLAND . 17.
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... hours I mourn , " Never , never to return ! Then to tofs the circling ball , Caught rebounding from the wall ; Then the mimic fhip to guide Down the kennel's dusky tide ; Then the hoop's revolving pace Thro ' the dirty street to chase ...
... hours I mourn , " Never , never to return ! Then to tofs the circling ball , Caught rebounding from the wall ; Then the mimic fhip to guide Down the kennel's dusky tide ; Then the hoop's revolving pace Thro ' the dirty street to chase ...
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... can unconcern'dly find Hours , days , and years flide for away , In health of body , peace of mind , Quiet by day , Sound fleep by night ; ftudy and ease , Together THE NURSERY GARLAND . 25 Mavor 99 Ode on Solitude Pope.
... can unconcern'dly find Hours , days , and years flide for away , In health of body , peace of mind , Quiet by day , Sound fleep by night ; ftudy and ease , Together THE NURSERY GARLAND . 25 Mavor 99 Ode on Solitude Pope.
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... hour they knock at death's gate ? And he that happy feems , and leaft in pain , Is yet as nigh his end , as he that most doth ' plain . The whiles fome one did chaunt their lovely lay , Ah fee , who so fair thing doft fain to fee , In ...
... hour they knock at death's gate ? And he that happy feems , and leaft in pain , Is yet as nigh his end , as he that most doth ' plain . The whiles fome one did chaunt their lovely lay , Ah fee , who so fair thing doft fain to fee , In ...
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ANWYLL beams beauty Belfield beſt blaſt bleffings bleft blifs bloom bofom breaſt breath caft canker-worm charms Churchill crown'd darkneſs dear delight dwell earth EDMUND EDWARD Elinor eternal ev'ry facred fafe fair fame fate fcene fear feek feems ferene fhade fhall fhine fhould figh filent fing fleep flower fmile foft fome fong foon foothe forrow foul ftar ftill ftore ftrain ftream fuch fupply furveys fweet glory grace hand happy heart Heaven hour Howard marks lefs light mind Miss Onslow misty mountains moffy morn mourn Mufe MYLO night nymph o'er paffions peace pity pleaſe pleaſure poor pow'r praiſe pride purſue rife rill rofe round ſhade ſhall ſhare ſkies ſky ſmile ſpirit ſpread Spring ſtill ſweet tears thee thefe theſe thine thou thouſand thro toil treaſure truth vale Virtue wakeful eye Whofe Wiſdom youth
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Страница 158 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven, On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Страница 89 - It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of time, Unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor" holds society With those who own it.
Страница 93 - How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May : But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ! When its leaves are all dead and...
Страница 116 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Страница 13 - I HATE that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms ; And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands.
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