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Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody
Key to practical English prosody and versification.
By J.
Carey .
.
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Carey, John, 1756-1826.
London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, by J. Gillet, 1816.
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? KEY
TO
PRACTICA
ENGLISH PR
AND
VERSIFICATION.
BY J. CAREY, LL, 1).
PRIVATE TEACHER.
lonDon,;
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER ROW,
By J. CUM, Crcrwn Court, Fleet Street,
1816.
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Iambic verses of eight syllables, with a mixture of other
Feet besides the Iambus.
(Page 76 of the Prosody. )
I court the Muse, and mark the day
Steal, calm and undisturb'd, away.
v. ? <<, _ u _
TPAen sWE//1 have the pow'r to bless,
And raise up merit in distress?
3
Sec Peace, with all her rural train,
Health, Plenty, Joy, return again.
4
Peace and content would bless each day,
The hours serenely glide away. . . .
5
Not all the world can now impart
A charm to glad my drooping heart.
6
Wrest from vindictive Rage his prey:
Destroy Oppression's iron sway.
B
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7
He now feels wants unknown before,
Wants still increas? wg with his store.
s f. * * '. ; .
Cowards are cruel: but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
9
The spring, that gave her blossoms birth,
Tore them for everfrom the earth.
. 10
The noble palms of conquest crown
The godlike \ ictor veith renown.
11 i
Hast thou old Greece and Rome survey'd
and the vast sense of. Plato weigh'd ?
12 :.
Lord! in thy sine protection blest,
Submissive will I ever rest.
13
I mark his true, his faithful way,
and in my service, copy Tray. .
14
Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
15
Thus ev'ry object of creation ,Vi . . . .
Can furnish hints to Contemplation ;
and, from the most minute and mean,
A yir-\-tuous mind | cau morals glean.
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16
Heedless of int'rest, ma-\->>y an hour
He loses in the myrtle bow'r.
17
Yon tow'ring oak, extending wide,
Provokes destruction by its pride.
18
Ttach mt to bless my. lowly lot,
Confin'd to this paternal cot.
19
The gentle Zephyrs, as they fly,
On bahny wings, shall bear a sigh.
CO
Each youth of martial hope shall feel
True ralour's animating zeal.
21
Who dwells iu yonder little cot,
And envies not the monarch's lot?
22
She softly breathes, " ah I sigh no more
" Thy Nelson gains th' Elysidn shore. "
23
See, rushing from the farm and fold,
Her sons in glory's lists enroll'd.
24
o Godless! yet assert thy claim,
And y'mdicate thy injur'd name.
25 '. >' . '. . i . :
More fatal than the Siren's song
The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
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26
Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Herefaithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy spray.
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
StainJd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though bless'd with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth,
With ev'ry earthly mean of bliss,
The road to happiness we miss.
33
The records q/"departed worth
To noblest sentiments give birth.
34
Down in the green sequester'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
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Possess'd of all the . charms that grace
The brightest h\f the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,:
In thee a patron to defend.
37 '
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,.
14
Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
15
Thus ev'ry object of creation ,Vi . . . .
Can furnish hints to Contemplation ;
and, from the most minute and mean,
A yir-\-tuous mind | cau morals glean.
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16
Heedless of int'rest, ma-\->>y an hour
He loses in the myrtle bow'r.
17
Yon tow'ring oak, extending wide,
Provokes destruction by its pride.
18
Ttach mt to bless my. lowly lot,
Confin'd to this paternal cot.
19
The gentle Zephyrs, as they fly,
On bahny wings, shall bear a sigh.
CO
Each youth of martial hope shall feel
True ralour's animating zeal.
21
Who dwells iu yonder little cot,
And envies not the monarch's lot?
22
She softly breathes, " ah I sigh no more
" Thy Nelson gains th' Elysidn shore. "
23
See, rushing from the farm and fold,
Her sons in glory's lists enroll'd.
24
o Godless! yet assert thy claim,
And y'mdicate thy injur'd name.
25 '. >' . '. . i . :
More fatal than the Siren's song
The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
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26
Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Herefaithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy spray.
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
StainJd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though bless'd with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth,
With ev'ry earthly mean of bliss,
The road to happiness we miss.
33
The records q/"departed worth
To noblest sentiments give birth.
34
Down in the green sequester'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
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Possess'd of all the . charms that grace
The brightest h\f the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,:
In thee a patron to defend.
37 '
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,.
Britannia's barks the coast explore,
Waft science, peace, and plenty o'er*
381 . . . n i
Improving and improv'd, they'd' learn
New charms in wisdom to discern.
39. -
You cherish feelings too refin'd
For him who mingles-with mankind.
40 i ? "d< '. if' > i t
He rises frim his sleepless bed, ?
His soul convuls'd with secret dread',
. ' . - 4lb"^;l v. MHO: - ! <
His income regular\y spent,
He scarcely saves to pay his rent. ? ?
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A temper af/ao/o^nd kliid, , ,'.
A noble and a gen'-rous mind. ,
. . . . ^i. :. -, ir.
Although I long nave rack'd my brains;
I've nought but labor for my pains.
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44.
In terrors clad, thy foes surround,
And hurl thy turrefs to the ground.
45
. Nor blasting envy's tainted gale
Pollutes the pleasures of the vale.
46
She's prompt to shed the pi-\-tywg tear, \
To Mercy and to Virtue dear.
47 *.
A coach and four, to take the air,
Besides a chartor, and a chair.
48 .
His head was silver'd o'er with age; .
And long expe-l-newce made | him sage.
In summer's heat and winter's cold,
He fed his flock, and penn'd the fold. .
His hours in cheerful labor flew,
Nor envy nor ambition knew.
His wisdom and his honest fame
Through all the country rais'd his name.
49 ' . :
The shepherd modestly replied; ;im i'y
I ne'er the paths of learning tried;
Nor have 1 roam'd to foreign parts,. : i
To read mankind, their laws, and arts
Who by that search shall wiser grow,
When we ourselves can never know ?
I 50 . . v Ji
The prostrate game a lion spies,
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and on the greedy tyrant flies.
51
So shines his light before mankind.
His actions prove his houest mind.
52
He never needs the screen of lies,
His inward bosom to disguise.
53
Wild fancy forms nnnumber'd woes :
To end his life the mutiiic goes. . . ,,.
Forward I rush'd, and seis'd his arm,
And forc'd him back, secure from harrjn
54. -- England.
a happy isle ! thy fertile plains
Repay with golden sheaves the swains;
Thy verdant vales, and mountains steep,
Are whiten'd o'er with fleecy sheep.
55
Dear rural scenes! the tufted free.
The flow'ry mead, have charmp for me,
That far exceed the joys of courts,
Where splendid mWfy oft resprtsj
Where grief, disguis'd, like joy appears,
And hollow smiles hfde starting tears,
Much rather lit me stem the tide,
Without a helm my bark to guide,
The sport of waves and fickle winds,
Than trust to such capricious minds,
Where whim and passion hold the rein,
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And slighted reason pleads in vain.
57 U
Fond mem'vy o'er thy grave shall give
A tear, to bid thy virtues live. .
58 . i
Still o'er the genial. hours of spring : a
Fell Discoi d waves her crimson wing : . . .
O'er bleeding Europe's ravag'd'plains,
The fiend, in state terrific,"'reignS)-' '? ,i ?
Nor oaten pipe, nor past'ral song,
Resounds her waving woods among.
Yet far from Albion's' traticjuil shores
The storm of desolation roars. <
59 ' !
Note ev'ry brilliant moment seems
Replete with, fancy's airy1 dreams.
,'. 60 V - ,', ,
Not from the warrior's laurel leaves
The votive garland now she weaver. ' ? "
'" ? 61 - ' <<. ' i'
Beneath thy fost'ring reign benign,
5 best of kings! let mercy shine.
< . . 6a '. 1i''" y t ? 'i?
From scene to scene we rove and smile ;
Fond Hope our leader all the while.
We fear no brooding storms of care';
We dread no spell, no murd'rous-sadre.
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Iambic Verses of ten syllables, with a mixture of other
. Feet besides the Iambus.
63
She points to Honor and her gorgeous train,
But shows not disappointment, want, and pain.
64
Bewilder'd Pride the swelling crest uprears,
And causeless Penitence is drown'd in tears.
65
A second Paradise our senses greets,
And Asia watts us all her world of sweets.
66
Already, see! each schoolboy, 'prentice, clerk,
Assumes the pistol, and demands the Park.
67
Nor deem, that all, the tuneful chords who strike,
Are curs'd with base ingratitude . dike.
68. -- Canute.
He vainly bade each boisi'rous wave retreat,
Nor tinge the sat/ace of his royal teet.
69
But ah ! how chang'd! Tue Must", that once was gay,
And wanton laugh'd the darning hours away,
No more shall wander o'er the flow'ry plains,
Or waken Echo with lier rural strains.
Carey, John, 1756-1826.
London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, by J. Gillet, 1816.
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TO
PRACTICA
ENGLISH PR
AND
VERSIFICATION.
BY J. CAREY, LL, 1).
PRIVATE TEACHER.
lonDon,;
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER ROW,
By J. CUM, Crcrwn Court, Fleet Street,
1816.
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Iambic verses of eight syllables, with a mixture of other
Feet besides the Iambus.
(Page 76 of the Prosody. )
I court the Muse, and mark the day
Steal, calm and undisturb'd, away.
v. ? <<, _ u _
TPAen sWE//1 have the pow'r to bless,
And raise up merit in distress?
3
Sec Peace, with all her rural train,
Health, Plenty, Joy, return again.
4
Peace and content would bless each day,
The hours serenely glide away. . . .
5
Not all the world can now impart
A charm to glad my drooping heart.
6
Wrest from vindictive Rage his prey:
Destroy Oppression's iron sway.
B
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7
He now feels wants unknown before,
Wants still increas? wg with his store.
s f. * * '. ; .
Cowards are cruel: but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
9
The spring, that gave her blossoms birth,
Tore them for everfrom the earth.
. 10
The noble palms of conquest crown
The godlike \ ictor veith renown.
11 i
Hast thou old Greece and Rome survey'd
and the vast sense of. Plato weigh'd ?
12 :.
Lord! in thy sine protection blest,
Submissive will I ever rest.
13
I mark his true, his faithful way,
and in my service, copy Tray. .
14
Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
15
Thus ev'ry object of creation ,Vi . . . .
Can furnish hints to Contemplation ;
and, from the most minute and mean,
A yir-\-tuous mind | cau morals glean.
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? Key to English Prosody.
16
Heedless of int'rest, ma-\->>y an hour
He loses in the myrtle bow'r.
17
Yon tow'ring oak, extending wide,
Provokes destruction by its pride.
18
Ttach mt to bless my. lowly lot,
Confin'd to this paternal cot.
19
The gentle Zephyrs, as they fly,
On bahny wings, shall bear a sigh.
CO
Each youth of martial hope shall feel
True ralour's animating zeal.
21
Who dwells iu yonder little cot,
And envies not the monarch's lot?
22
She softly breathes, " ah I sigh no more
" Thy Nelson gains th' Elysidn shore. "
23
See, rushing from the farm and fold,
Her sons in glory's lists enroll'd.
24
o Godless! yet assert thy claim,
And y'mdicate thy injur'd name.
25 '. >' . '. . i . :
More fatal than the Siren's song
The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
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? 4 Key to English Prosody.
26
Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Herefaithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy spray.
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
StainJd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though bless'd with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth,
With ev'ry earthly mean of bliss,
The road to happiness we miss.
33
The records q/"departed worth
To noblest sentiments give birth.
34
Down in the green sequester'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
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35 i >
Possess'd of all the . charms that grace
The brightest h\f the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,:
In thee a patron to defend.
37 '
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,.
14
Shall Britain, on her native strand,
Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ?
15
Thus ev'ry object of creation ,Vi . . . .
Can furnish hints to Contemplation ;
and, from the most minute and mean,
A yir-\-tuous mind | cau morals glean.
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? Key to English Prosody.
16
Heedless of int'rest, ma-\->>y an hour
He loses in the myrtle bow'r.
17
Yon tow'ring oak, extending wide,
Provokes destruction by its pride.
18
Ttach mt to bless my. lowly lot,
Confin'd to this paternal cot.
19
The gentle Zephyrs, as they fly,
On bahny wings, shall bear a sigh.
CO
Each youth of martial hope shall feel
True ralour's animating zeal.
21
Who dwells iu yonder little cot,
And envies not the monarch's lot?
22
She softly breathes, " ah I sigh no more
" Thy Nelson gains th' Elysidn shore. "
23
See, rushing from the farm and fold,
Her sons in glory's lists enroll'd.
24
o Godless! yet assert thy claim,
And y'mdicate thy injur'd name.
25 '. >' . '. . i . :
More fatal than the Siren's song
The crafty flatt'rer's wily tongue.
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26
Some love the clash of hostile arms,
The trumpet's clang, the camp's alarms.
27
Herefaithful mem'ry may review
The scenes that time can ne'er renew.
28
once time is past, we call in vain.
No tears can bring it back again.
29
Wanton in Sol's meridian ray,
Sip nectar from each bloomy spray.
30
Thy glitt'ring pinions charm mine eyes,
StainJd with bright beauty's brilliant dies.
31
The thought would mar thy present joy,
Mix with thy bliss a base alloy
32
Though bless'd with friends, with youth, and health,
And all the gay parade of wealth,
With ev'ry earthly mean of bliss,
The road to happiness we miss.
33
The records q/"departed worth
To noblest sentiments give birth.
34
Down in the green sequester'd shade,
The streamlet pours its clear cascade.
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35 i >
Possess'd of all the . charms that grace
The brightest h\f the female race.
36
I find in thee a tender friend,:
In thee a patron to defend.
37 '
In ev'ry clime, from pole to pole,
Where wind can blow or billow roll,.
Britannia's barks the coast explore,
Waft science, peace, and plenty o'er*
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Improving and improv'd, they'd' learn
New charms in wisdom to discern.
39. -
You cherish feelings too refin'd
For him who mingles-with mankind.
40 i ? "d< '. if' > i t
He rises frim his sleepless bed, ?
His soul convuls'd with secret dread',
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His income regular\y spent,
He scarcely saves to pay his rent. ? ?
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A temper af/ao/o^nd kliid, , ,'.
A noble and a gen'-rous mind. ,
. . . . ^i. :. -, ir.
Although I long nave rack'd my brains;
I've nought but labor for my pains.
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44.
In terrors clad, thy foes surround,
And hurl thy turrefs to the ground.
45
. Nor blasting envy's tainted gale
Pollutes the pleasures of the vale.
46
She's prompt to shed the pi-\-tywg tear, \
To Mercy and to Virtue dear.
47 *.
A coach and four, to take the air,
Besides a chartor, and a chair.
48 .
His head was silver'd o'er with age; .
And long expe-l-newce made | him sage.
In summer's heat and winter's cold,
He fed his flock, and penn'd the fold. .
His hours in cheerful labor flew,
Nor envy nor ambition knew.
His wisdom and his honest fame
Through all the country rais'd his name.
49 ' . :
The shepherd modestly replied; ;im i'y
I ne'er the paths of learning tried;
Nor have 1 roam'd to foreign parts,. : i
To read mankind, their laws, and arts
Who by that search shall wiser grow,
When we ourselves can never know ?
I 50 . . v Ji
The prostrate game a lion spies,
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and on the greedy tyrant flies.
51
So shines his light before mankind.
His actions prove his houest mind.
52
He never needs the screen of lies,
His inward bosom to disguise.
53
Wild fancy forms nnnumber'd woes :
To end his life the mutiiic goes. . . ,,.
Forward I rush'd, and seis'd his arm,
And forc'd him back, secure from harrjn
54. -- England.
a happy isle ! thy fertile plains
Repay with golden sheaves the swains;
Thy verdant vales, and mountains steep,
Are whiten'd o'er with fleecy sheep.
55
Dear rural scenes! the tufted free.
The flow'ry mead, have charmp for me,
That far exceed the joys of courts,
Where splendid mWfy oft resprtsj
Where grief, disguis'd, like joy appears,
And hollow smiles hfde starting tears,
Much rather lit me stem the tide,
Without a helm my bark to guide,
The sport of waves and fickle winds,
Than trust to such capricious minds,
Where whim and passion hold the rein,
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And slighted reason pleads in vain.
57 U
Fond mem'vy o'er thy grave shall give
A tear, to bid thy virtues live. .
58 . i
Still o'er the genial. hours of spring : a
Fell Discoi d waves her crimson wing : . . .
O'er bleeding Europe's ravag'd'plains,
The fiend, in state terrific,"'reignS)-' '? ,i ?
Nor oaten pipe, nor past'ral song,
Resounds her waving woods among.
Yet far from Albion's' traticjuil shores
The storm of desolation roars. <
59 ' !
Note ev'ry brilliant moment seems
Replete with, fancy's airy1 dreams.
,'. 60 V - ,', ,
Not from the warrior's laurel leaves
The votive garland now she weaver. ' ? "
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Beneath thy fost'ring reign benign,
5 best of kings! let mercy shine.
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From scene to scene we rove and smile ;
Fond Hope our leader all the while.
We fear no brooding storms of care';
We dread no spell, no murd'rous-sadre.
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Iambic Verses of ten syllables, with a mixture of other
. Feet besides the Iambus.
63
She points to Honor and her gorgeous train,
But shows not disappointment, want, and pain.
64
Bewilder'd Pride the swelling crest uprears,
And causeless Penitence is drown'd in tears.
65
A second Paradise our senses greets,
And Asia watts us all her world of sweets.
66
Already, see! each schoolboy, 'prentice, clerk,
Assumes the pistol, and demands the Park.
67
Nor deem, that all, the tuneful chords who strike,
Are curs'd with base ingratitude . dike.
68. -- Canute.
He vainly bade each boisi'rous wave retreat,
Nor tinge the sat/ace of his royal teet.
69
But ah ! how chang'd! Tue Must", that once was gay,
And wanton laugh'd the darning hours away,
No more shall wander o'er the flow'ry plains,
Or waken Echo with lier rural strains.
