Poems on Various Subjects;: With Some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. And a Treatise on Health. ...T. Boddely, 1754 - 392 pages |
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Page 27 - May'ft thou to gold th' unpolifh'd ore refine ! May each dark page unfold its haggard brow ! Doubt not to reap, if thou canft bear to plough. To tempt thy care, may, each revolving night, Purfes and maces fwim before thy fight ! From hence in times to come, advent'rous deed ! May'ft thou eflay, to look and fpeak like Mead. When the black bag and rofe no more fhall...
Page 345 - Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind ; Reafon's whole pleafure, all the joys of fenfe, Lie in three words, Health ,Peace, and Competence. But health conf,fls with temperance alone, And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 196 - All dogs here take the water, and we find No creature but of an amphibious kind: Rabbits with ducks, and geese here sail with hens, And all for food must paddle in the fens; Nay when provision fails, the hungry mouse Will fear no pool to reach a neighb'ring house. The good old Hen clucks boldly thro' the stream And chicken newly hatch'd assay to swim.
Page 6 - Moufe, that dauntlefc long defy'd The various arts which Abigail had try'd, His deftin'd doom receiv'd, — for foon or late Both Mice and Monarchs muft fubmit to fate. OFT' was the moon with filver luftre crown'd, Since the nodurnal vagrant march'd his round.
Page 341 - What riches give us — let us firft enquire, " Meat, fire, and cloaths— what more, meat, cloaths, and fire. " What can they give ? to dying Hopkins heirs...
Page 155 - But one bright eye young Aeon's face adorns, For one bright eye fair Leonilla mourns. Kind youth, to her thy single orb resign, To make her perfect, and thyself divine ; For then, should Heaven the happy change allow, She would fair Venus be, blind Cupid thou.
Page 97 - Pride and low mould' ring clay but ill agree ; Death levels me to beggars : kings to me. Alive, instruction was my work each day ; Dead, I persist instruction to convey. Here, Reader, mark (perhaps now in thy prime) The stealing steps of never-standing time : Thou'lt be what I am ; catch the present hour ; Employ that well, for that's within thy power.
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Page 85 - Cincinnatus too ;, Here triumph'd o'er mankind much more, Than all their conquefts did before. Life's a vain farce, — and...
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