Poems on Several Occasions

الغلاف الأمامي
author, 1736 - 412 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 345 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
الصفحة 134 - Which heaven and earth amaze ? Wherefore do earthquakes cleave the ground ? Why hides the sun his rays ? 2 Well may the earth astonish'd shake, And nature sympathize ! The sun as darkest night be black ! Their Maker, Jesus, dies...
الصفحة 135 - tis he, My Saviour and my God ! 4 For me these pangs his soul assail, For me this death is borne ; My sins gave sharpness to the nail, And pointed every thorn.
الصفحة 46 - So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows ; Fairer than spring the colours shine, And sweeter than the virgin ros.e.
الصفحة 99 - WHAT man, in his wits, had not rather be poor, Than for lucre his freedom to give! Ever busy the means of his life to secure; And so ever neglecting to live!
الصفحة 204 - You fcarce would fleer as now you do ; I doubt your Guts would grumble too : 'Still do you laugh ? I tell you, Sir, I'd kick you foundly, could I ftir : Thou...
الصفحة 211 - He'd ne'er fet Foot within his Door, And jump down open Throats no more :• No ; while he liv'd, he'd ne'er again Run, like a Fox* down the Red Lane. Our Patient thus, his Inmate gone, Cur'd of the Crotchets in his Crown, Joyful his Gratitude...
الصفحة 60 - See him, when starv'd to Death and turn'd to Dust, Presented with a Monumental Bust ! The Poet's Fate is here in Emblem shown; He ask'd for Bread, and he receiv'da Stone. SAMUEL WESLEY (1691-1739), 'On the Setting Up of Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey...
الصفحة 201 - Pow'r to tafte his Happinefs. Too near, alas! this great Man's Hall A merry Cobler had a Stall; An arch old Wag as e'er you knew, With Breeches red, and Jerkin blue; Chearful at Working, as at Play, He fung and whittled Life away: When rifing Morning glads the Sky, .-.-, * f* Clear as the merry Lark, and high ; When Evening Shades the Landskip veil, Late warbling as the Nightingale. Tho' Pence came flow, and Trade was ill.
الصفحة 79 - From the Greek. A BLOOMING youth lies buried here ; Euphemius, to his country dear : Nature adorn'd his mind and face With ev'ry muse and ev'ry grace : Prepar'd the marriage state to prove, But Death had quicker wings than Love.

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