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 45
עמוד 6
... wild career ; From seat to seat o'er pompous scenes he flies , Views all with equal wonder and surprise , Till , sick of domes , arcades , and temples , grown , He hies fatigued , not satisfied , to Town : 1 IMITATION . In friendship ...
... wild career ; From seat to seat o'er pompous scenes he flies , Views all with equal wonder and surprise , Till , sick of domes , arcades , and temples , grown , He hies fatigued , not satisfied , to Town : 1 IMITATION . In friendship ...
עמוד 8
... wilds again with nightly care ; So shall my kine , of all the herd , repair In healthful plight to fill the copious pail ; My sheep lie pent with safety in the dale ; My poultry fear no robber in the roost ; My linen more than common ...
... wilds again with nightly care ; So shall my kine , of all the herd , repair In healthful plight to fill the copious pail ; My sheep lie pent with safety in the dale ; My poultry fear no robber in the roost ; My linen more than common ...
עמוד 11
... Wild , interrupted , cross'd with rocks and roots And interwoven trees ; till , soon absorb'd , An opening cavern all its rage entombs . So vanish human glories ! such the pomp Of swelling warriors , of ambitious kings , Who fret and ...
... Wild , interrupted , cross'd with rocks and roots And interwoven trees ; till , soon absorb'd , An opening cavern all its rage entombs . So vanish human glories ! such the pomp Of swelling warriors , of ambitious kings , Who fret and ...
עמוד 12
... wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . ' MILT . " TIs past , my friend ! the transient scene is clos'd ! The fairy pile , the ' enchanted vision , rais'd By Damon's magic skill , is lost in air ...
... wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown , And all their echoes , mourn . ' MILT . " TIs past , my friend ! the transient scene is clos'd ! The fairy pile , the ' enchanted vision , rais'd By Damon's magic skill , is lost in air ...
עמוד 16
... wild , The shrub that scents the mountain gale , The stream rough dashing down the dale , From rock to rock in eddies tost , The distant lake in which ' tis lost , Blne hills gay beaming through the glade , Lone urns that solemnize the ...
... wild , The shrub that scents the mountain gale , The stream rough dashing down the dale , From rock to rock in eddies tost , The distant lake in which ' tis lost , Blne hills gay beaming through the glade , Lone urns that solemnize the ...
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.