Travelling Recreations Volume 2 (Paperback)

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.1807 Excerpt: ... SONNET, Composed in the Church-yard of Patterdale, in Westmoreland, where there is not a single tombstone. Pallida Mors sequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, Regumque tutres. Hor. od. 4. lib. i. Clouds veil the moon, the mountains dimly rise, Eve's softenrd gales the leaves but faintly shake; With sudden turns the bat abruptly flies, And, seen uncertain, sleeps the misty lake. To Meditation sacred be the hour The rustic church-yard lures my pensive mind, Nor boist'rous mirth, nor worldly schemes, have pow'r To break the pause to sober thought assign'd.--No flatt'ring verse, no sculptur'd grave-stones, here, Distinctions vain of diff'rent ranks are found: This solemn sentence, just, and not severe, Breathes from the lonely consecrated ground; "Whate'er through life our various lots have been, EauALiTY in Death shall close the scene " SONNET, TO HENRY GREGG, ES&. ON THE NORTHERS CIRCUIT, In answer to a Letter containing several Latin and French Quotations. Gregg in the train of modest Themis seen, Whom oft in snowy curls she deigns to shroud, Veiling with rev'rend pomp thy youthful mien, As Venus wrapp'd./eneas in a cloud From York's proud monuments of various artf, Where late I linger'd with a fond delay, She bids thee now, with hasty step, depart Tow'ids hanging woods, where Lune's soft waters stray. Km etfuv xiSomv. Hesiod. Theog. The author may perhaps be suspected of irony, in this modern application of the epithet.-(The Gothic Minster, and Lord Burlington's Astembly-room, which is one of our best specimens of Greek architecture. Skill'd in the Roman, and the Gallic, lore, Rightly you judge, Law's dry and dusty way To strew with classic flow'rs from either store. Nor blush, my Friend to own Love's potent sway j But willing Beauty at each haunt pursu...