PoemsWalter Scott, 1820 - 24 pages |
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Page 26
... Folly and Innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But Innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us , by ...
... Folly and Innocence are so alike , The difference , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A simpering countenance , and a trifling air ; But Innocence , sedate , serene , erect , Delights us , by ...
Page 28
... folly with a full - moon tide , Then welcome errours of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon ; So sophistry cleaves close to , and protects ...
... folly with a full - moon tide , Then welcome errours of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon ; So sophistry cleaves close to , and protects ...
Page 29
... folly without end ; Whose corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery and dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net , By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to ...
... folly without end ; Whose corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery and dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net , By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to ...
Page 64
... folly from all - seeing eyes ? The fast , that wins deliverance , and suspends The stroke , that a vindictive God intends , Is to renounce hypocrisy ; to draw Thy life upon the pattern of the law ; To war with pleasure , idolized before ...
... folly from all - seeing eyes ? The fast , that wins deliverance , and suspends The stroke , that a vindictive God intends , Is to renounce hypocrisy ; to draw Thy life upon the pattern of the law ; To war with pleasure , idolized before ...
Page 74
... folly may command ; As in a dance the pair that take the lead Turn downward , and the lowest pair succeed , So shifting and so various is the plan , By which Heaven rules the mix'd affairs of man ; Vicissitude wheels round the motley ...
... folly may command ; As in a dance the pair that take the lead Turn downward , and the lowest pair succeed , So shifting and so various is the plan , By which Heaven rules the mix'd affairs of man ; Vicissitude wheels round the motley ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms dæmons death delight design'd distant divine docet dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure plebeian poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas VINCENT BOURNE Virg virtue waste whate'er WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth