The Poetical Works of George Keate, Esq, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1781 - 235 pages |
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Page 31 - And that you may not bathe in vain I'll here, as well as I am able, Give you a Moral to this Fable. Would you a GODDESS reign o'er all?
Page 30 - Yet I confefs I'm always loth To think fuch beauty was but froth, Or that the ocean, which more odd is, Should from a bubble fpawn...
Page 137 - Th' aerial range of Fancy's brightest Heaven, To bid rapt thought o'er noblest heights aspire, And wake each passion with a Muse of Fire. Revere his genius — to the dead be just, And spare the laurels, that o'ershade the dust. Low sleeps the bard, in cold obstruction laid, Nor asks the chaplet...
Page 9 - I fend the tribute of a fhort'ning life, The laft memorial of a faithful Wife. For ev'ry hope on this fide Heav'n is fled, And Death's pale banner waves around my head. It yet perchance may cheer my Lord to know That SUFFOLK'S Daughter finks not with her woe : Beneath its weight I feel myfelf refign'd ; Tho' ftrong its preffure, ftronger ftill my mind.
Page 32 - Each fparkling charm, each blufhing grace; To thefe let judgment value give, And in that feat of teauty live ! This moral keep before your eyes ; Plunge — and a new-born Venus rife.
Page 127 - Near him his fitter, COMIC MAID, is feen, Who checks, with laughing eyes, his rigid mien : Combin'd, o'er worlds an empire they maintain, And ev'ry vice and folly wears their chain.
Page 59 - Winds it's flow growth : nor here unfrequent found The cryftal, catching from it's mineral bed A changeful tinge, yellow, or red, or green, Azure, or violet, wanting flrength alone To be the gem it mimics.—On thele heights Blooms many a modelt flowret fcarcely known E'en to the vale beneath, tho' fweet as thofe, That, when proud Rome was miftrefs of the world, Adorn'd the fhrines of FLORA.
Page 63 - ... following beautiful image : Thefe as they glide along furvey their banks Circled with mountains that appear to bend Beneath the woods they bear Of thefe mountains one in particular is defcribed with great precifion and a peculiar air : the mournful larch It's drooping foliage hangs : the...
Page 272 - Hall when yu heard. M. DELATN. The following lines were written by Mr. Keate, upon Mrs. Delany's giving the little daughter mentioned in this letter a lesson in cutting out a flower from Nature. LINES BY MR. KEATE. " With that benevolence which condescends To glide its knowledge to the youthful heart, O'er thee, my child, the good Delany bends, Directs thy scissors, and reveals her art.
Page 137 - Fame her airy Trumpet found ! Unheard alike, nor Grief, nor Tranfport raife, Thy Blaft of Cenfure, or thy Note of Praife ! As RAPHAEL'S own Creation grac'd his Hearfe,* And fham'd the Pomp of oftentatious Verfe...