 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...e'en the alldazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heavenloved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. THE following extract from a humorous poem of Marvell, though destitute of the vigor of Dryden and... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...the all dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. THE PALACE OF FORTUNE, AN INDIAN TALE; Written in the Year 1769. MILD was the vernal gale, and calm... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks ; Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards, which f\prnratp. the brave, Tis folly to decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. SIR W. JONES.... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...her bidding shrinks, — Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore I No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons languish, and be men no more 1 Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards which decorate the brave, Tis folly to declme, And... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heav'n lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...resign, Those sweet rewards which decorate the brave, EXTRACTS FROM LOUISA. Was it for this my gentle brother's heart Bore in our growing loves so warm a... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore ! No...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. § IQ8. The Choice of a W\fe by Cheete. CAPTAIN THOMPSON. THERE liv'd in York, an age ago, A man whose... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 694 pages
...maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of his political opinions at that moment : >• " Such teas this heav'n-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer, and the...smile ? Shall Britons languish, and be men no more ?'" Some little time anterior to this indeed, he had re-strung his lyre on a very tempting occasion.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1817 - 630 pages
...maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of his political opinions at that moment : " Such ivas this heav'n-lov'd isle, Than Lesbos fairer, and the...smile ? Shall Britons languish, and be men no more ?" Some little time anterior to this indeed, he had re-strung his lyre on a very tempting occasion.... | |
 | William Jones - English poetry - 1818 - 312 pages
...Crown Hides his Taint rays, and at her hidding shrinks. Snch was this heaven-lov'd isle, Than Leshos fairer and the Cretan shore! No more shall freedom smile ? Shall Britons langnish, and he Men no more ? Since all must life resign, Those sweet rewards, which decorate the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend Discretion like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays, and at her...decline, And steal inglorious to the silent grave. SAMUEL BISHOP. BORN 1731. — DIED 1795. SAMUEL BISHOP was a clergyman, and for many years the head... | |
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O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Dissension, like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks; Such was this heaven-loved... 
