The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Archibald Bower arms beauty Beneath bless bless'd bliss blissful band bloom boast bosom breast breath call'd CERINTHUS charms court cried crowded house Damon dear Delia delight disdain divine e'en envy eyes fair fairest fame fear fire flame flattering flowers folly fond form'd gentle George Lyttelton Gilbert West goddess grace grove hand happiness heart Heaven HENRY PELHAM honour hope hour Hymen inspire join'd kind knew lady Lord Lord Lyttelton Lover Lucy lyre Lyttelton maid mind Moore Mount Edgecumbe Muse ne'er never night nymph o'er once pain pass'd passion peace Petrarch Pindus pleasing pleasure praise pride rage repose rest rose Selim shade shame shine smiled soft song soul stray swain sweet taste tell tender thee thou thought TIBULLUS toil truth turn'd twas verse vex'd virtue voice wing wretch youth
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Page 13 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring. ' Doctor,' said he, ' you shall be my confessor : when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept...
Page 11 - When they were first published, they were kindly commended by the " Critical Reviewers ;" and poor Lyttelton, with humble gratitude, returned, in a note which I have read; acknowledgments which can never be proper, since they must be paid either for flattery or for justice.
Page 14 - On the evening when the symptoms of death came on, he said, ' I shall die; but it will not be your fault.' When lord and lady Valentia came to see his lordship, he gave them his solemn benediction, and said, ' Be good, be virtuous, my lord ; you must come to this.
Page 144 - Caelia struts in man's attire, She shows too much to raise desire ; But from the hoop's bewitching round Her very shoe has power to wound. The roving eye, the...
Page 165 - Woman is avow'd of old No daughter of celestial mould, Her tempering not without allay, And form'd but of the finer clay, We challenge from the mortal dame The strength angelic natures claim; Nay more; for sacred stories tell, That e'en immortal angels fell. Whatever fills the teeming sphere Of humid earth and ambient air, With varying elements endued, Was form'd to fall, and rise renew'd.
Page 195 - But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 135 - I'd pawn my word, A Goose would be the finer bird. Nature, to hide her own defects, Her bungled work with finery decks : Were Geese set off with half that show, Would men admire the peacock ? No.
Page 133 - The crashing bones he grinds for food, And slakes his thirst with streaming blood. Love, who the cruel mind detests, And lodges but in gentle breasts, Was now no more. — Enjoyment past, The savage hunger'd for...
Page 52 - Tell me, my heart, if this be love? If she some other youth commend, Though I was once his fondest friend, His instant enemy I prove: Tell me, my heart, if this be love?
Page 39 - Seek to be good, but aim not to be great : A woman's noblest station is retreat : Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestick worth, that shuns too strong a light.