The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One VolumeLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1852 - 510 pages |
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... doubt whether such improve - gard to veracity , speak my fears , as predominating ment would follow , and perhaps proof might be ad- over every pre - indulged thought of a more favour . duced to show it would not : but when , to this ...
... doubt whether such improve - gard to veracity , speak my fears , as predominating ment would follow , and perhaps proof might be ad- over every pre - indulged thought of a more favour . duced to show it would not : but when , to this ...
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... doubt , suspicion , and debate ; Detraction - Complaints of the ' Squire - The Peace , tim'rous goddess ! quits her ... doubts ' twixt war and wife ; But , while the falt'ring damsel takes her oath , any place is a sufficient reason for ...
... doubt , suspicion , and debate ; Detraction - Complaints of the ' Squire - The Peace , tim'rous goddess ! quits her ... doubts ' twixt war and wife ; But , while the falt'ring damsel takes her oath , any place is a sufficient reason for ...
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... doubt have rustic readers led ; Have made them stop to reason why ? and how ? And where they once agreed , to cavil now . Oh ! rather give me commentators plain , Who with no deep researches vex the brain ; Who from the dark and ...
... doubt have rustic readers led ; Have made them stop to reason why ? and how ? And where they once agreed , to cavil now . Oh ! rather give me commentators plain , Who with no deep researches vex the brain ; Who from the dark and ...
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... doubt who grafted this sweet flower , Or whence arose that spirit and that power ? " Four years Behold the fifth behold a babe again ! I've wed ; not one has pass'd in vain : My wife's gay friends th ' unwelcome imp admire , And fill ...
... doubt who grafted this sweet flower , Or whence arose that spirit and that power ? " Four years Behold the fifth behold a babe again ! I've wed ; not one has pass'd in vain : My wife's gay friends th ' unwelcome imp admire , And fill ...
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... doubt removed . Then by what name th ' unwelcome guest to cail Was long a question , and it posed them all ; For he who lent it to a babe unknown , Censorious men might take it for his own . They look'd about , they gravely spoke to all ...
... doubt removed . Then by what name th ' unwelcome guest to cail Was long a question , and it posed them all ; For he who lent it to a babe unknown , Censorious men might take it for his own . They look'd about , they gravely spoke to all ...
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appear'd art thou beauty behold brother call'd comfort cried dare dark dear death deed delight doubt dread earth fair fame fancy fate father fear fear'd feel felt fix'd fond Fulham gain'd gave gentle GEORGE CRABBE give glory grace grave grew grief grieved happy hear heard heart heaven holy honour hope hopes and fears Hosanna humble kind knew labour lady lady saw live look look'd Lord lover maid marriage mind Muse never night numbers nymph o'er pain pass'd passion peace Pindar pity pleased pleasure poison'd poor praise pride resign'd rest scene scorn seem'd shame sigh smile sorrow sought soul speak spirit spleen stood strong sweet taught terror thee thine things thou thought truth Twas vex'd virtue walk'd wife wish wish'd words wretch youth
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Page 127 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page xvii - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 17 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 166 - Beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes. Lys. Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her. O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low!
Page 198 - Why, why is this ? Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Page 17 - Lo, such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God. 3 By cool Siloam's shady rill The lily must decay ; The rose that blooms beneath the hill Must shortly fade away.
Page 17 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His Head with the beasts of the stall, Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.
Page 22 - Long have we roamed in want and pain, Long have we sought thy rest in vain ; Wildered in doubt, in darkness lost, Long have our souls been tempest-tost : Low at thy feet our sins we lay ; Turn not, O Lord, thy guests away.
Page 21 - HOLY, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty ! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee ; Holy, holy, holy ! merciful and mighty ! God in three persons, blessed Trinity ! Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore Thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee, Which wert and art and evermore shalt be...
Page 1 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy Temple wait ; No prophet bards, thy glittering courts among, Wake the full lyre, and swell the tide of song : But lawless Force, and meagre Want is there, And the quick-darting eye of restless Fear ; While cold Oblivion, 'mid thy ruins laid, Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade.