The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, כרך 4Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1801 |
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עמוד 299 - This is the life which those who fret in guilt, And guilty cities, never knew ; the life Led by primeval ages, uncorrupt, When angels dwelt, and God himself, with man!
עמוד 334 - O catch the high import, ye winds, as ye blow; O bear it, ye waves, as ye roll From regions that feel the sun's vertical glow, To the farthest extremes of the Pole.
עמוד 258 - I behold thee, though longing to die, Approach the new heav'n with a tear and a figh ; For, oh, the fond figh 'midft enjoyment will ftray— And a tear is the tribute which rapture muft pay ! Still, ftill, doft thou tremble that pleafure to feek Which pants on thy bofom arid glows on thy check : Confufionand ftiame thy fofl wilhes deftroy — And terror cuts oft...
עמוד 247 - Where history's traced with the pen of a Varro, And Elvira in black, and Alonzo in white, Put an end to the piece by killing Pizarro.
עמוד 52 - Erin, my country! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore; But , alas ! in a far foreign land I awaken, And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more! Oh, cruel fate! wilt thou never replace me In a mansion of peace, where no perils can chase me? Never again shall my brothers embrace me? They died to defend me, — or live to deplore ! Where is my cabin door, fast by the wild wood?
עמוד 341 - Farewell, Helvetia ! from whose lofty breast Proud Alps arise, and copious rivers flow ; Where, source of streams, eternal glaciers rest, And peaceful Science gilds the plains below.
עמוד 69 - His belly was up blown with luxury; And eke with fatness swollen were his eyne; And like a crane his neck was long and fine, With which he swallowed up excessive feast, For want whereof poor people oft did pine.
עמוד 309 - The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols.
עמוד 52 - Sad is my fate! said the heart-broken stranger; The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee, But I have no refuge from famine and danger, A home and a country remain not to me.
עמוד 258 - For it (hows me my rival prepar'd to invade Thofe charms which at once 1 admir'd and obey'd! Far off each forbidding incumbrance is thrown, And, Sally, thy beauties no more are thy own; Thy coynefs, too, flies, as love brings to thy view A trance more ecftatic than faint ever knew ! And yet I behold thee...