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Academus almoſt Amid Aristophanes Arrian arts aſſociation awful band baſe beauty becauſe behold bends blooming boſom breath brow cauſe charms chear circumſtances cœleftial confcious conſequence courſe dæmon defire delight deſign divine earth eternal facred fair falſe fancy fatire fecret fince firſt flow'rs folemn fome fong fordid foul frame fublime hand harmonious heart heav'n honours imagination impulſe inchanted inſpiration inſtances juſt laſt Line lyre meaſure mind moral moſt muſe nature nature's o'er objects paffions paſſions pauſe Plato pleaſing pleaſure pomp pow'rs praiſe preſent proſpect purſue radiant raiſe reaſon ridiculous riſe roſy ſay ſcene ſchool ſcience ſcorn ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhapes ſhe ſhining ſhould ſky ſmiles Socrates ſome ſov'reign ſpecies ſpirit ſpoils ſpread ſpring ſtars ſtate ſtation ſteps ſtill ſtood ſtores ſtorms ſtrain ſtreams ſuch ſweet thee theſe things thoſe thou thro toil tongue treaſures truth univerſal vaſt verſe viſion Whate'er whoſe youth
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Page 90 - Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from his...
Page 18 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful damp, Hangs o'er the sickly taper ; and untir'd The virgin follows, with enchanted step, 250 The mazes of some wild and wondrous tale, From morn to eve...
Page 16 - Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The...
Page 27 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Page 92 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 91 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Page 72 - An unknown depth ? Alas ! in such a mind. If no bright forms of excellence attend The image of his country; nor the pomp Of sacred senates, nor the guardian voice Of justice on her throne, nor aught that wakes...
Page 12 - Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves, Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold, And clear autumnal skies and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Page 41 - Would pass unheeded. Fair the face of Spring, When rural songs and odours wake the morn, To every eye; but how much more to his Round whom the bed of sickness long diffused Its melancholy gloom!
Page 84 - Like spectres trooping to the wizard's call, Flit swift before him. From the womb of Earth, From Ocean's bed, they come ; the eternal Heavens Disclose their splendours, and the dark Abyss Pours out her births unknown.