The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 15Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... the thirsty earth , And bless the flowery buds ' succeeding birth : May they not pity us , condemn'd to bear The various heaven of an obliquer sphere . While by fix'd laws , and with a just return 36 Book 1 . SOLOMON .
... the thirsty earth , And bless the flowery buds ' succeeding birth : May they not pity us , condemn'd to bear The various heaven of an obliquer sphere . While by fix'd laws , and with a just return 36 Book 1 . SOLOMON .
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With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford Robert Walsh. While by fix'd laws , and with a just return , They feel twelve hours that shade , for twelve that burn , And praise the neighbouring sun , whose constant Enlightens them with ...
With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford Robert Walsh. While by fix'd laws , and with a just return , They feel twelve hours that shade , for twelve that burn , And praise the neighbouring sun , whose constant Enlightens them with ...
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... fix'd to one eternal sky , Each by a native stock of honour great , May dart strong influence , and diffuse kind heat , Itself a sun , and with transmissive light Enliven worlds denied to human sight ; Around the circles of their ...
... fix'd to one eternal sky , Each by a native stock of honour great , May dart strong influence , and diffuse kind heat , Itself a sun , and with transmissive light Enliven worlds denied to human sight ; Around the circles of their ...
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... Fix'd on her charms , and pleas'd that I could love , ' Aid me , my friends , contribute to improve Your monarch's bliss , ( I said :) fresh roses bring To strow my bed , till the impoverish'd Spring Confess her want : around my amorous ...
... Fix'd on her charms , and pleas'd that I could love , ' Aid me , my friends , contribute to improve Your monarch's bliss , ( I said :) fresh roses bring To strow my bed , till the impoverish'd Spring Confess her want : around my amorous ...
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... fix'd by what she latest spoke . Israel neglected , Abra was my care ; I only acted , thought , and liv'd for her . I durst not reason with my wounded heart ; Abra possess'd ; she was its better part . O ! had I now review'd the famous ...
... fix'd by what she latest spoke . Israel neglected , Abra was my care ; I only acted , thought , and liv'd for her . I durst not reason with my wounded heart ; Abra possess'd ; she was its better part . O ! had I now review'd the famous ...
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Page 48 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 25 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 82 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever : nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 81 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 24 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 48 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 24 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 49 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page 140 - I mention'd different ways of breeding: Begin we in our children's reading. To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter. Proceeding thus with vast delight, He spells, and gnaws, from left to right.