The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for John Sharpe, 1808 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 33
עמוד 8
... swain , Nor we inspire , nor he attends , in vain . ' Go , simple rhymer ! bear this message true ; The truths that fairies dictate none shall rue . Say to the bard in Leasowes ' happy grove , Whom dryads honour , and whom fairies love ...
... swain , Nor we inspire , nor he attends , in vain . ' Go , simple rhymer ! bear this message true ; The truths that fairies dictate none shall rue . Say to the bard in Leasowes ' happy grove , Whom dryads honour , and whom fairies love ...
עמוד 10
... swain , as o'er each hill and dale , Through lawn or thicket , he pursued his way : - ' What is it gilds the verdure of these meads With hues more bright than Fancy paints the flowers Of Paradise ? What naiad's guiding hand Leads ...
... swain , as o'er each hill and dale , Through lawn or thicket , he pursued his way : - ' What is it gilds the verdure of these meads With hues more bright than Fancy paints the flowers Of Paradise ? What naiad's guiding hand Leads ...
עמוד 11
... deity , nor needs More potent spells than they .'- No more the swain , For , lo ! his Damon , o'er the tufted lawn Advancing , leads him to the social dome . ΤΟ MR . ROBERT DODSLEY , ON THE DEATH OF ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE . 11.
... deity , nor needs More potent spells than they .'- No more the swain , For , lo ! his Damon , o'er the tufted lawn Advancing , leads him to the social dome . ΤΟ MR . ROBERT DODSLEY , ON THE DEATH OF ENCOMIUMS ON SHENSTONE . 11.
עמוד 22
... swain , and cold the hand that wove Their simple sweets to wreaths of artless love . Simplicity with Shenstone died ! - FROM PRATT'S TEARS OF GENIUS . FULL gentle and sweet was the note That flow'd from his delicate heart ; Simplicity ...
... swain , and cold the hand that wove Their simple sweets to wreaths of artless love . Simplicity with Shenstone died ! - FROM PRATT'S TEARS OF GENIUS . FULL gentle and sweet was the note That flow'd from his delicate heart ; Simplicity ...
עמוד 26
... swain Who dares our hallow'd haunts profane ! ' These sentiments correspond as well as possible with the ideas we form of the abode of Fairies , and , appearing deep in this romantic valley , serve to keep alive such enthusiastic images ...
... swain Who dares our hallow'd haunts profane ! ' These sentiments correspond as well as possible with the ideas we form of the abode of Fairies , and , appearing deep in this romantic valley , serve to keep alive such enthusiastic images ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
bard beauty Beauty mourns beneath bless'd bliss bloom boast bosom bow'r breast breathe charms Clent hill crown'd dame Damon dear Delia delight drooping e'er Elegy envy ev'n fair faithless fame Fancy fate favour'd flame flow flow'rs fond form'd gentle glow gold grace ground grove haunts hear Heav'n hill lawn Leasowes Leather Lane lov'd lyre Lyttelton maid mind mournful Muse naiad native ne'er numbers nymph o'er pain paint path peace pensive plain pleas'd pleasure polish'd pomp pow'r praise pride rill ROBERT DODSLEY rose rove rural scene scorn seat shade SHENSTONE shepherd shine shore shrubs shun sigh silvan sing skies smile soft song soul stream swain sweet swell taste tear tender thee thine thou toils train trees tuneful Twas vale valley verdant virtue ween wild WILLIAM SHENSTONE wind wood youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 159 - Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair; Their books of stature small they take in hand, Which with pellucid horn secured are; To save from finger wet the letters fair: The work so gay, that on their back is seen, St. George's high achievements does declare; On which thilk wight that has y-gazing been Kens the forth-coming rod, unpleasing sight, I ween!
עמוד 44 - What it is to admire and to love, And to leave her we love and admire. Ah ! lead forth my flock in the morn, And the damps of each evening repel ; Alas ! I am faint and forlorn — • I have bade my dear Phyllis farewell.
עמוד 158 - Here oft the dame, on Sabbath's decent eve, Hymned such psalms as Sternhold forth did mete, If winter 'twere, she to her hearth did cleave, But in her garden found a...
עמוד 154 - AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, To think how modest Worth neglected lies While partial Fame doth with her blasts adorn Such deeds alone, as pride and pomp disguise; Deeds of ill sort, and mischievous emprise: Lend me thy clarion, goddess!
עמוד 143 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
עמוד 155 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
עמוד 120 - If through the garden's flowery tribes I stray, Where bloom the jasmines that could once allure, "Hope not to find delight in us," they say, "For we are spotless, Jessy; we are pure.
עמוד 57 - Their colours and their sash he wore, And in the fatal dress was found ; And now he must that death endure, Which gives the brave the keenest wound.
עמוד 45 - I fed on the smiles of my dear ? They tell me, my favourite maid. The pride of that valley, is flown ; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd I could wander with pleasure, alone.
עמוד 157 - One ancient hen she took delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favour did her past deportment claim: And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.