| History - 1763 - 552 pages
...her lludious quire, And met thee mufing in her cloyfters pale : О ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting lay: A lay like this thy earlier virtues claim, And this let voluntary friendlhip pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dangerous... | |
| Books - 1763 - 556 pages
...pale ; O ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his ardefs reed one parting lay ; A lay A lay like this thy early virtues claim, And this let voluntary friendfhip pay. Thefe verfes are perfectly eafy and unaffected. Nor lefs beautiful is the flanza where the Poet, after... | |
| William Mason - 1774 - 316 pages
...pale; Oh ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting lay j A lay like this thy early Virtues claim, And this...to the world's tempeftuous clime, Muft learn each Paflion's boift'rous breath to bear. There, if Ambition peftilent and pale, Or Luxury fhould taint... | |
| English poetry - 1782 - 516 pages
...her ftudidus quire, And met thee muling in her cloifters pale ; O ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting...this thy early virtues claim, And this let voluntary friendship pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dang'rous time, When all thofe virtues, op'ning now... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1787 - 554 pages
...ftudious quire, • And met thee muling in her cloyfiers pale ; O ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting lay : A lay like this thy earlier virtues claim, And this let voluntary friendfhip pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dangerous... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 398 pages
...musing in her cloysters pale; Oh! let thy friend (and may he boast the name) Breathe from his artless reed one parting lay; A lay like this thy early Virtues claim, And this let voluntary Friendship pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dangerous time, When all those Virtues, opening now... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...to her fturlioub quire, And met thee mufing in her cbiitcrs pale; 0 let thy friend (and may he boaft l m B friendfliip pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dang'rous time, When all thofe virtues, op'ning now... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...her ftudious quire, And met thee mufing in her cloiftcrs pale ; O let thy friend (and may he boaft the name !) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting...this thy early virtues claim, And this let voluntary friendlhip pay. Yet know, the time arriv^ the dang'rous time, When all thofc virtuclS&p'ning now fo... | |
| William Mason - 1796 - 332 pages
...her ftndious quire, And met thee mufing in her cloifters pale ; Oh ! let thy friend (and may he boaft the name) Breathe from his artlefs reed one parting...time, When all thofe Virtues, opening now fo fair, Tranfplant*d to the world's tempeftuous clime, Mufl learn each Paffion's boift'rous breath to bear.... | |
| William Mason - English poetry - 1803 - 252 pages
...musing in her cloisters pale ; O ! let thy friend (and may he boast the name) Breathe from his artless reed one parting lay; A lay like this thy early Virtues claim, And this let voluntary Friendship pay. Yet know, the time arrives, the dangerous time, When all those Virtues, opening now... | |
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