And Mecca saddens at the long delay. Summer. Line 979. Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things. Line 1188. A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Line 1285. So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. Line 1346. Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age. Line 1516. Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. Autumn. Line 2. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, He saw her charming, but he saw not half Line 229. For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. Line 233. See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year. Winter. Line 1. Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. Line 393. 1 In naked beauty, more adorn'd, More lovely, than Pandora. Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 713. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead. Hymn. Line 1. Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade. From seeming evil still educing good. Line 25. Line 114. Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Line 118. Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; Plac'd far amid the melancholy main. Scoundrel maxim. Canto i. Stanza 26. Canto i. Stanza 30. Canto i. Stanza 50. A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 68. A little round, fat, oily man of God. Canto i. Stanza 69. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot bar my constant feet to trace For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove And, when we meet a mutual heart, Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. Coriolanus. Act. iii. Sc. 3. Sophonisba. Act. iii. Sc. 2. O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O!1 1 The line was altered, after the second edition, to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves ! Britons never shall be slaves. Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5. 1700-1758. JOHN DYER. Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view? Grongar Hill. Line 5. JOHN WESLEY. 1703-1791. That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called A Slave Trade. Journal. Feb. 12, 1792. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanli Sermon xcii. On Dress. ness is indeed next to godliness." ROBERT DODSLEY. 1703-1764. One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu ; Bramston. Rhodes. 313 JAMES BRAMSTON. 1744. But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door Art of Politics. So Britain's monarch once uncover'd sat, WILLIAM B. RHODES. Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echoed along the shore. Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore. Bombastes Furioso. 1 "I hope," said Col. Titus, "we shall not be wise as the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To trust expedients with such a king on the throne would be just as wise as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fastening the door to keep him out."— On the Exclusion Bill. January 7, 1681. |