Saint Anne's Hill: A PoemWetton, 1833 - 38 стор. |
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abbey of Chertsey afterwards Bishop Alluding ANNE'S HILL barbarous bard biographer brighter Britons Cæsar's calm Cassivelaunus Casvelhan Certesia's CHEERFUL COOPER'S HILL Cowley's Discourse crown'd day is incurred dedicated to SAINT Dioclesian Doctor Johnson Ducarel dulcet dusky edition eighteenth stanza ENDICOTT enrich'd Erkenwalde Ethelbert ev'ry FAVOURITE FOLLOWING POEM fordable freedom's friendship genius glory's glowing ground hail harass'd HARVARD COLLEGE heart Henry the Sixth HONORABLE Hume's History impart imperial throne incurred by retaining inscribed lib'ral Library life's lov'd lyre mind MUSE natal day NOTE IV NOTE VI NOTE VII NOTE XI o'er Otway painted passed the Thames pensive philosophy pleasure POET Porch House pow'r radiant repose return promptly Roman sacred lore SAINT ANNE'S HILL sainted ANNA'S sainted ANNA'S HILL Saxons scite Shepperton sing Solitude spray ST ANNE'S stakes storm Stukely sung Surrey survey sweet TEMPLE thee thy tributary song tow'r tuneful verse view'd wherein Cowley yonder yore
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Сторінка 26 - And listen'd for the queen of all the quire; Fain would I hear her heavenly voice to sing; And wanted yet an omen to the spring.
Сторінка 35 - My eye descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays. Thames, the most loved of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity.
Сторінка 22 - THE Star, whose radiant beams adorn With vivid light the rising morn, The season changed, with milder ray Cheers the calm hour of parting day. So Friendship, of the generous breast The earliest, and the latest guest, In youthful prime with ardour glows, And sweetens life's serener close.
Сторінка 35 - Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs ; Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hoi*. Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Сторінка 26 - The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray to spray, were heard to sing. Both eyes and ears received a like delight, Enchanting music, and a charming sight.
Сторінка 29 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Сторінка 2 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described, with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Сторінка 3 - The first minister of state has not so much business in public, as a wise man has in private : if the one have little leisure to be alone, the other has less leisure to be in company ; the one has but part of the affairs of one nation, the other all the works of God and nature under his consideration. There is no saying shocks me so much as that which I hear very often, " that a man does not know how to pass his time.
Сторінка 36 - I do hope to recover my late hurt so farre within five or six days (though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it) as to walk about again. And then, methinks, you and I and the dean might be very merry upon St. Ann's Hill. You might very conveniently come hither the way of Hampton Town, lying there one night. I write this in pain, and can say no more : Verbum sapienti.