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. 1811 Excerpt: ...A happy mother, may'st thou see Thy smiling virtnous progeny, Whose sportful tricks, and airy play, Fraternal love, and prattle gay, Or wondrous tale, or joyfnl song, May lure the lingering hours along; Till death arrive, unfelt, unseen, With gentle pace and placid mien, And waft thee to that happy shore, Where wishes ...
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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. 1811 Excerpt: ...A happy mother, may'st thou see Thy smiling virtnous progeny, Whose sportful tricks, and airy play, Fraternal love, and prattle gay, Or wondrous tale, or joyfnl song, May lure the lingering hours along; Till death arrive, unfelt, unseen, With gentle pace and placid mien, And waft thee to that happy shore, Where wishes can have place no more. ON THE DEATH OF STEPHEN GREY, F.R.S. THE ELECTRICIAN. Long hast thou borne the burden of the day, Thy task is ended, venerable Grey I No more shall art thy dext'rous hand require, To break the sleep of elemental fire: 1 The sketch of this poem was written by Miss Williams, inl John.on wrote it all over again, except two lines. To rouse the powers that actuate nature's frame, The momentaneous shock, the' electric flame; The flame, which first, weak pupil of thy lore, I saw, condemn'd alas! to see no more. Now, hoary sage, pursue thy happy flight With swifter motion, haste to purer light, Where Bacon waits, with Newton and with Boylf, To hail thy genius and appland thy toil, Where intuition breathes through time and space, And mocks experiment's successive race; Sees tardy science toil at nature's laws, And wonders how the' effect obscures the cause. Yet not to deep research or happy guess, Is view'd the life of hope, the death of peace; Unbless'd the man, whom philosophic rage Shall tempt to lose the Christian in the sage; Not art but goodness pour'd the sacred ray That cheor'd the parting hours of humble Grey. POEMATA. JAN. 20, 21,1773. Vite qui varias vices Rerum perpetuus temperat Arbiter, Laeto cedere lumini Noctis tristitiam qui gelida; jubet, Acri sanguine turgidos, Obductosque oculos nubibus humidis Sanari voluit mens. Et me, cuncta beans cui nocuit dies, Luci reddidit et mihi. Qua te laude, Deus qua prece prosequ...
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