The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the AuthorB. Johnson, J. Johnson and R. Johnson, 1805 - 132 páginas |
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... Stella , queen of all my heart Come , born to fill its vast desires ! Thy looks perpetual joys impart , Thy voice ... Stella's breast , And bid the waking world farewel . AUTUMN . ALAS ! with swift and silent pace , Impatient time rolls ...
... Stella , queen of all my heart Come , born to fill its vast desires ! Thy looks perpetual joys impart , Thy voice ... Stella's breast , And bid the waking world farewel . AUTUMN . ALAS ! with swift and silent pace , Impatient time rolls ...
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... Stella with new charms shall glow , And every bliss in wine shall meet . WINTER . NO more the morn , with tepid rays , Unfolds the flow'rs of various hue ; Noon spreads no more the genial blaze , Nor gentle eve distils the dew . The ...
... Stella with new charms shall glow , And every bliss in wine shall meet . WINTER . NO more the morn , with tepid rays , Unfolds the flow'rs of various hue ; Noon spreads no more the genial blaze , Nor gentle eve distils the dew . The ...
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... Stella and a friend . In nature's aid let art supply With light and heat my little sphere : Rouze , rouze the fire , and pile it high , Light up a constellation here . Let music sound the voice of joy , Or mirth repeat the jocund tale ...
... Stella and a friend . In nature's aid let art supply With light and heat my little sphere : Rouze , rouze the fire , and pile it high , Light up a constellation here . Let music sound the voice of joy , Or mirth repeat the jocund tale ...
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... 'd with vain joys , and false alarms , With mental and corporeal strife , Snatch me , my Stella , to thy arms , And skreen me from the ills of life . TO MISS ***** On her giving the Author a Gold 92 MISCELLANIES . The Winter's Walk,
... 'd with vain joys , and false alarms , With mental and corporeal strife , Snatch me , my Stella , to thy arms , And skreen me from the ills of life . TO MISS ***** On her giving the Author a Gold 92 MISCELLANIES . The Winter's Walk,
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... Stella , was it then decreed The heart once caught should ne'er be freed . EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II . AND COLLEY CIBBER ... STELLA IN MOURNING . WHEN lately Stella's form display'd The MISCELLANIES . 93 To Miss ****
... Stella , was it then decreed The heart once caught should ne'er be freed . EPIGRAM ON GEORGE II . AND COLLEY CIBBER ... STELLA IN MOURNING . WHEN lately Stella's form display'd The MISCELLANIES . 93 To Miss ****
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty Behold bless bosom breast breathe charms Circassia Collins death delight e'en ECLOGUE English language ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear fire fix'd flowers foes Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine gold golden reign grace grief grove happy hear heart heaven honour hope hour Johnson Juvenal kings language light literary live Lord Lord Chesterfield lov'd lover lyre maid maze of fate merit Metastasio mind mirth moral mournful Murphy muse myrtle nature nature's night numbers Nymph o'er passions peaceful Pity plain pleasure poem poet poetical pow'r praise pride rage Rambler Rasselas reign Rio verde rise Samuel Johnson SATIRE OF JUVENAL scarce scenes scorn shade shews shine sighs sing Sir John Hawkins skies smile soft sooth soul spreads Spring Stella sweet thee thine thou thought Thrale toil truth vale verse virtue virtue's voice wealth wild wise writings youth
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Página 22 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Página 21 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 67 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song : And, where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Página 19 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring ' Each opening sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove ; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Página 69 - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Página 58 - With every wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dogdays, in December sweat. How, when competitors like these contend, Can surly Virtue hope to fix a friend...
Página 58 - If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste eve, to soothe thy modest ear. Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs, and dying gales...
Página 80 - Ah ! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Página 99 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Página 68 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For why did Wolsey near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th