The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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adore Almighty angels arms bear beauties behold beneath bids bless bless'd bliss blood breast breath bright celestial chariot charms cherubs clay clouds command darkness dear death deep delight divine dwell earth eternal eyes fair Father feel feet fire flame flesh flowery fields glorious glory golden grace groans hand happy heart Heaven heavenly Hell Hesiod hills honours Hosannas immortal Immortal bard immortal song infinite ISAAC WATTS Jesus joys King light ligion lofty Lord lose my breath loud lyre mighty mind mortal Muse NATHANIEL GOULD native numbers o'er pain passions Pindaric pleasure poems poet powers praise Psalm reigns rise roar roll round rove sacred Sarissa Saviour seas seraphic shining sight sing skies smile song sorrows soul sound sovereign spread springs stand stars sweet swift tears tempest thee thine things thou thoughts thousand throne thunder thy name tongue triumph tuneful wind wings wondrous
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Page 32 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Page 12 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life.
Page 9 - This calamitous state made the compassion of his friends necessary, and drew upon him the attention of Sir Thomas Abney, who received him into his house, where, with a constancy of friendship and uniformity of conduct not often to be found, he was treated for thirty-six years with all the kindness that friendship could prompt, and all the attention that respect could dictate.
Page 113 - Live for ever, wondrous King ! Born to redeem, and strong to save !" Then ask the monster, " Where's thy sting ?" And " Where's thy victory, boasting grave ?
Page 112 - Here's love and grief beyond degree, The Lord of glory dies for men ! But lo ! what sudden joys we see ! Jesus the dead revives again ! 4 The rising God forsakes the tomb ! Up to his Father's court he flies ; Cherubic legions guard him home, And shout him welcome to the skies.
Page 31 - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Page 65 - O may I bear some humble part In that immortal song ! Wonder and joy shall tune my heart And love command my tongue.
Page 32 - To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Page 11 - He was one of the first authors that taught the Dissenters to court attention by the graces of language. Whatever they had among them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured and blunted by coarseness and inelegance of style. He shewed them, that zeal and purity might be expressed and enforced by polished diction.
Page 31 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.