 | John Bell - English poetry - 1791 - 546 pages
...beings awe th' untutor'd swain : Nor th'ou, tho' learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect; Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain; These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquest to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-command ing strain. Ev'n yetpreserv'd,... | |
 | Odes, English - 1791 - 172 pages
...beings awe th' untutor'd swain : Nor thou, tho' learn 'd, his homelier thoughts negleft; Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain ; These are the themes of simple, sure effeft, That add new conquest to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding... | |
 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 412 pages
...fcior thou, tho' learn'd, his homelhr thoughts neglect •Let thy sweet muse the rural filth sustain i These are the themes of simple sure effect,. That add• new conquests to her boundlefs reign, And fill with doable force her heart-commanding strain. in. Ev'n yet preserv'd, how... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...beings awe the untutor'd swain : Nor thou, tho' learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect ; Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain ; These are the themes...That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain. .J III. Ev'n yet preserv'd, how often may'st... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...beings awe the untutor'd swain : Nor thou, tho' learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect ; Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain ; •These are the themes...effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, . ' 1 fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain. III. Ev'n yet preserv'd, how often may'st... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...heart-smit heifers lie, Such airy beings awe t h" untutor'd swain : Let thy sweet muse the rural fail h sustain ; These are the themes of simple, sure effect,...That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain. E'en, yet preserv'd, how often may^t thou hear,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...Such airy beings awe th' untutor'd swain : Nor thou, though learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect ; These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain. E'en yet preserv'd, how often may'st thou hear,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...learn'd, his homelier thought* neglect ; Let thy sweet muse the rural faith sustain ; These ure die themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign. And fill, with double forte, her heart-command in£ strain. E'en yet preserv'd, how often may'st thou hear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...beings awe th' untutored swain : Nor thou, though learned, his homelier thoughts neglect ; Let thy sweet muse the rural faith sustain ; These are the themes...That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain. Even yet preserved, how often mayest thou hear,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...who introduced Home to Collins. ON THE SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. 207 Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain ; These are the themes...That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill with double force her heart-commanding strain. E'en yet preserv'd, how often mayst thou hear,... | |
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Such airy beings awe th* untutor'd swain : Nor thou, though learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect; Let thy sweet muse the rural faith sustain ; These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with... 
