Poems on Several OccasionsAuthor, and sold, 1766 - 181 pages |
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Page 32 - But's furnish'd out from thence : Save what my little babes afford, Whom I behold with glee, When smiling at my humble board, Or prattling at my knee. Not that my Daphne's charms are flown, These still new pleasures bring, Tis these inspire content alone ; Tis all I've left of spring. I wish not, dear connubial state, To break thy silken bands ; I only blame relentless fate, That every hour demands.
Page xiv - He generally sits at his work with a pen and ink by him, and when he has made a couplet he writes them down on his knee; so that he may not, thereby, neglect the duties of a good husband and kind father; for the same reason his hours for reading are often borrowed from those usually allotted to...
Page 25 - BENEVOLENCE combine •! To humanize the mind ! The Parian floor, Or vivid cieling, frefco'd o'er, With glaring charms the gazing eye may fire ; Yet may their lords, like ftatues cold, Devoid of Sympathy, behold Fair worth with want repine, 9 Or indigence expire ; Nor ever, know the nobleft ufe of gold.
Page 22 - To contradift thy will. For happy, happy were the change, For fuch a god-like mind, To go where kindred fpirits range, Nor leave a wifh behind. And tho...
Page 25 - Except BENEVOLENCE combine To humanize the mind ; The Parian floor, Or vivid cieling, frefco'd o'er, With glaring charms the gazing eye may fire...
Page 24 - The fculptur'd dome to raife ; To fcoop the vale, to fwell the hill, Or lead the fmooth, meand'ring rill In ever-varying maze ; To ftrike the lyre With Homer's fire, , Or Sappho's tender art ; Or Handel's notes with fweeter {trains infplre : O'er Phidias' duffel to prefide, Or Titian's glowing pencil guide Through ev'ry living part.
Page 72 - ... conceal the skeleton within: Nor heavy hours in listless labour waste; Nor pall, with viands coarse, my blunted taste; Nor ken unornamented murkey walls; Nor join the chorus of domestic brawls; Nor lend an ear to leaden senseless chat, Or the shrill clamours of each squalling brat: Nor wish I sceptre, diadem, and throne, But, HoRACE-like, a vill and farm my own; To range among my lawns, my streams, my trees, Such as he wish'd; or, rather, such as these...
Page 40 - And if tings eternal reign. Yet not in folitude to foar ¡ But, with a kindred band, The pow'r and wifdom to explore Of her Creator's hand. Or, with her tuneful pow'rs complete, To chaunt the blils above ; Or, in ecftatic notes, repeat Her dear Redeemer's love! On Account ufa Deßgn toftizeand carry off", it it faid, a French Nobleman, wh...
Page 22 - Pfeferve him, mild Omnipotence! Our Father, King, and God, Who clear'ft the paths of life and fenfe, Or ftop'ft them at thy nod. Bleft pow'r, who calm'ft the raging deep, His valued health reftore, Nor let the fons of Genius weep, Nor let the Good deplore. But if thy boundlefs Wifdom knows His longer'date an ill, Let not my foul a wifh difclofe To contradift thy will.
Page 36 - But rather, with true filial fear, - '•*•' Adore the prefent God ; And his paternal ftripes revere, And ; kifs his healing rod.