Poems, Volume 2W. Blanchard, 1796 |
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... foon my infant accents lifp'd the rhyme , How foon my hands the mimic colours spread , And vainly ftrove to snatch a double wreath . From Fame's unfading laurel : fruitless aim ; Yet not inglorious ; nor perchance devoid Of friendly use ...
... foon my infant accents lifp'd the rhyme , How foon my hands the mimic colours spread , And vainly ftrove to snatch a double wreath . From Fame's unfading laurel : fruitless aim ; Yet not inglorious ; nor perchance devoid Of friendly use ...
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... his primæval arms , His plough - fhare , and his fpade ; nor fhalt thou long Impatient wait a change ; the waste shall fmile With yellow harvests ; what was barren heath A 3 110 Shall Shall foon be verdant mead . Now let thy Art [ s I.
... his primæval arms , His plough - fhare , and his fpade ; nor fhalt thou long Impatient wait a change ; the waste shall fmile With yellow harvests ; what was barren heath A 3 110 Shall Shall foon be verdant mead . Now let thy Art [ s I.
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William Mason. Shall foon be verdant mead . Now let thy Art Exert its powers , and give , by varying lines , The foil , already tam'd , its finished grace . Nor lefs obfequious to the hand of toil , If Fancy guide that hand , will the ...
William Mason. Shall foon be verdant mead . Now let thy Art Exert its powers , and give , by varying lines , The foil , already tam'd , its finished grace . Nor lefs obfequious to the hand of toil , If Fancy guide that hand , will the ...
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... beam , Gilding that cloud , with caufelefs mirth they fmile . Stay , pitying Time ! prolong their vernal blifs . Alas ! ere we can note it in our fong , 455 Comes Comes manhood's feverish fummer , chill'd full foon By cold [ 48 ]
... beam , Gilding that cloud , with caufelefs mirth they fmile . Stay , pitying Time ! prolong their vernal blifs . Alas ! ere we can note it in our fong , 455 Comes Comes manhood's feverish fummer , chill'd full foon By cold [ 48 ]
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William Mason. Comes manhood's feverish fummer , chill'd full foon By cold autumnal care , till wintry age Sinks in the frore feverity of death . Ah ! who , when fuch life's momentary dream , Would mix in hireling fenates , ftrenuous ...
William Mason. Comes manhood's feverish fummer , chill'd full foon By cold autumnal care , till wintry age Sinks in the frore feverity of death . Ah ! who , when fuch life's momentary dream , Would mix in hireling fenates , ftrenuous ...
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Page 48 - Their whistle shrill, and oft their faithful dog Shall with obedient barkings fright the flock From wrong or robbery.
Page 207 - For all that nature by her mother wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there, and all that nature did omit, Art playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Page 11 - This deed were impious. Ah, forgive the thought, Thou more than Painter, more than Poet ! HE, Alone thy equal, who was
Page 221 - Letters, and more from Chambers's little discourse, published some years ago ;* but it is very certain we copied nothing from them, nor had any thing but Nature for our model. It is not forty years since the art was born among us...
Page 18 - Around the figur'd carpet of the lawn. Hence too deformities of harder cure : The terras mound uplifted ; the long line Deep delv'd of flat canal ; and all that toil, Mifled by taftelefs Fafhion, could atchieve 405 To mar fair Nature's lineaments divine.
Page 209 - ... there may be more honour if they fucceed well, yet there is mere dilhonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults.
Page 220 - He is highly civil to our nation ; but there is one point in which he does not do us justice ; I am the more solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste we can call our own; the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure, I mean our skill in gardening...
Page 204 - Seat in Ware-Park ; where I well remember, he did so precisely examine the tinctures and seasons of his flowers, that in their settings, the inwardest of which that were to come up at the same time, should be always a little darker than the...
Page 199 - On this account, our English gardens are not so entertaining to the fancy as those in France and Italy, where we see a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and forest, which represent every where an artificial rudeness, much more charming than that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country.