The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem: in Six CantosT. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, 1817 - Broj stranica: 166 |
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1-CANTO æther airy bard beauty beauty's blest bliss bosom bright bright eye brow Caliban CANTO charms cheek convey'd cries delight dome dread eager earth enchanting eyes fair fancy fashion's fate fear feels female fiend FILLIGREE fire fixt flame fluttering fond fondly frame friendly frown gauze gaz'd gentle glory gorgon gout grace guardian happy heart heavenly hope hour Iliad infernal innocence inspir'd keen kind knight lively mind lyre magic maid mild mind Moorish mortal ne'er nymph o'er pain passion peer phantom Pleas'd pleasure pleasure's poison'd pomp pride promis'd queen quick rose round scene secret seem'd SERENA Shines sight sire smile soft SOPHROSYNE soul sparkling spectre spell spirit Spleen spoke sportive sprite strife sullen survey'd sway sweet swelling Sycorax tender thee thou thought thro trepan TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER vapours vex'd vext view'd village maid voice warm YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY youth
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Stranica 53 - Thro' me ye pass to Spleen's terrific dome, Thro' me, to Discontent's eternal home : Thro' me, to those who sadden'd human life, By sullen humour, or vexatious strife ; And here, thro' scenes of endless vapours hurl'd, Are punish'd in the forms they plagued the world ; Justly they feel no joy, who none bestow, All ye who enter, every hope forego !" O'er an arch'd cavern, rough with horrid stone, On which a feeble light by flashes shone, These characters, that chill'd her soul with dread, SERENA,...
Stranica v - It seems to be a kind of duty incumbent on those who devote themselves to poetry, to raise, if possible, the dignity of a declining art, by making it as beneficial to life and manners as the limits of composition, and the character of modern times will allow.
Stranica v - Poet was idolized for its miraculous effects; yet a poem, intended to promote the cultivation of good humour, may still, perhaps, be fortunate enough to prove of some little service to society in general ; or if this idea may be thought too chimerical and romantic by sober reason, it is at least one of those pleasing and innocent delusions, in which a poetical enthusiast may be safely indulged.
Stranica 2 - ... if they were. There are not many characters better hit off in a few lines, in the whole round of English verse, than, that of " The good Sir Gilbert, to his country true, A faithful Whig, who, zealous for the State, In freedom's service led the loud debate : Yet every day, by transmutation rare, Turn'd to a Tory in his elbow chair, And made his daughter pay, howe'er absurd, Passive obedience to his sovereign word.
Stranica 115 - Or fportive trips around the frolic ring, Coupling with radiant wreaths of lambent fire, Fair fluttering Hope and rapturous Defire.
Stranica 64 - With every quaint device of splendor rich, Yon phantom, who, from vulgar eyes withdrawn, Appears to stretch in one eternal yawn : Of empire here he holds the tottering helm, Prime minister in Spleen's discordant realm,. The pillar of her spreading state, and more, Her darling offspring, whom on earth she bore ; For, as on earth his wayward mother stray'd, Grandeur, with eyes of fire, her form survey'd, And with strong passion stalling from his throne, Unloos'd the sullen queen's reluctant zone.
Stranica 114 - And just between the woman and the child. Her fair left arm around a vase she flings, From which the tender plant mimosa springs: Towards its leaves, o'er which she fondly bends, The youthful fair her vacant hand extends With gentle motion, anxious to survey How far the feeling fibres own her sway: The leaves, as conscious of their queen's command, Successive fall at her approaching hand ; While her soft breast with pity seems to pant, And shrinks at every shrinking of the plant.
Stranica 165 - Virtue's an ingot of Peruvian gold, SENSE the bright ore Potosi's mines unfold ; But TEMPER'S image must their use create, And give these precious metals sterling weight.
Stranica x - I wished, indeed, (but I fear most ineffectually) for powers to unite some touches of the sportive wildness of Ariosto, and the more serious sublime painting of Dante, with some portion of the enchanting elegance, the refined imagination, and the moral graces of Pope ; and to do this, if possible, without violating those rules of propriety, which Mr.
Stranica 117 - For this soft tribe thy heaviest fear dismiss, And know their pains are transient as their bliss • Rapture and Agony, in Nature's loom, Have form'd the changing tissue of their doom ; Both interwoven with so nice an art, No power can tear the twisted threads apart : Yet happier these, to Nature's heart more dear, Than the dull offspring in the torpid sphere, Where her warm wishes, and affections kind, Lose their bright current in the stagnant mind. Here grief and joy so suddenly unite, That anguish...