Category: Poetry
_When the exertions of an Individual to improve his profession are crowned with success, it is certainly the highest gratification his feelings can experience. The very distinguished approbation that attended the publication of the ornamented edition of Goldsmith’s Traveller,...
_When the exertions of an Individual to improve his profession are crowned with success, it is certainly the highest gratification his feelings can experience. The very distingu...
2. Part 2_The subject proposed. Address to his Royal Highness the Prince. The origin of hunting. The rude and unpolished manner of the first hunters. Beasts at first hunted for food and...
3. Part 3The dripping covert; yet when winter’s cold Their limbs benumbs, thither, with speed return’d, In the long grass they skulk, or, shrinking, creep Among the wither’d leaves: thus...
4. Part 4Defiles the verdant plain. Nor idle stand The trusty slaves; with pointed spears, they pierce Through their tough hides; or at their gaping mouths An easier passage find. The ki...
5. Part 5Unharbour’d now, the royal stag forsakes His wonted lair; he shakes his dappled sides, And tosses high his beamy head; the copse Beneath his antlers bends. What doubling shifts...
6. Part 6Raving, he runs, and deals destruction round. The pack fly diverse; for whate’er he meets, Vengeful, he bites, and every bite is death. If now, perchance, through the weak fence...