This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...impell'd A magistrate, a monarch, ye beheld Affronting civil order's holiest bands? Those bands which ye so labour'd to improve? Those hopes and fears of justice from above, Which tavn'd the savage world to your divine commands?1 ODE XIV. THE COMPLAINT. I. Away! away! Tempt me no more, insidious love: Thy soothing sway ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...impell'd A magistrate, a monarch, ye beheld Affronting civil order's holiest bands? Those bands which ye so labour'd to improve? Those hopes and fears of justice from above, Which tavn'd the savage world to your divine commands?1 ODE XIV. THE COMPLAINT. I. Away! away! Tempt me no more, insidious love: Thy soothing sway Long did my youthful bosom prove: At length thy treason is discern'd, At length some dear-bought caution earn'd: Away! nor hope my riper age to move. n. I know, I see Her merit. Needs it now be shown, Alas, to me? How often, to myself unknown, The graceful, geutle, virtuous maid Have I admir'd! How often said, What joy to call a heart like hers one's own! 1 The "Memoirs" were written by Frederick, called the Great, kinj of Prussia. Kippia thinka that the ode was designed to expose the irreligious tenets of the royal historian. Johnson said, " Hie prose is poor stuff; ho But, flattering god, O squanderer of content and ease, In thy abode Will care's rude lesson learn to please? O say, deceiver, bast thou won Proud Fortune to attend thy throne, Or plac'd thy friends above her stern decrees? ODE XV. On Domestic Man Ner 8. (unfinished.) i. Meek Honour, female shame, O! whither, sweetest ofl'spring of the sky, From Albion dost thou fly; Of Albion's daughters once the favourite fame? O beauty's ouly friend, Who giv'st her pleasing reverence to inspire; A ho selfish, bold desire Dost to esteem and dear affection turn; Alas, of thee forlorn What joy, what praise, what hope can life pretend? n. Behold; our youths in vain Concerning nuptial happiness inquire: Our maids no more aspire The arts of bashful Hymen to attain; But with triumphant eyes And cheeks impassive, as they move along, Ask homage of the throne. The lover swears that in a...
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