The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... dead , who , if they cannot de- fend themselves , are at least ignorant of his abuse , will not hesitate by the most wanton calumny to de- stroy the quiet , the reputation , the fortune , of the living . Yet censure is not heard beneath ...
... dead , who , if they cannot de- fend themselves , are at least ignorant of his abuse , will not hesitate by the most wanton calumny to de- stroy the quiet , the reputation , the fortune , of the living . Yet censure is not heard beneath ...
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... this cruel sort , so open to contra- diction , so impossible to be true , who could propa- gate ? Thus easily are blasted the reputations of the living and of the dead . " Who , then , was Lorenzo ? exclaim the 34 THE LIFE OF YOUNG .
... this cruel sort , so open to contra- diction , so impossible to be true , who could propa- gate ? Thus easily are blasted the reputations of the living and of the dead . " Who , then , was Lorenzo ? exclaim the 34 THE LIFE OF YOUNG .
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... dead , Or send thee to her hermitage with L. " The Biographia , ' not satisfied with pointing out the son of Young , in that son's life - time , as his fa- ther's Lorenzo , travels out of its way into the history of the son , and tells ...
... dead , Or send thee to her hermitage with L. " The Biographia , ' not satisfied with pointing out the son of Young , in that son's life - time , as his fa- ther's Lorenzo , travels out of its way into the history of the son , and tells ...
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... dead ? " Either the Essay , ' then , was dedicated to a patron who disapproved its doctrine , which I have been told by the author was not the case ; or Young appears , in his old age , to have bartered for a dedi- cation an opinion ...
... dead ? " Either the Essay , ' then , was dedicated to a patron who disapproved its doctrine , which I have been told by the author was not the case ; or Young appears , in his old age , to have bartered for a dedi- cation an opinion ...
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... dead , it was the desire of Young to be princi- pally known . He entitled the four volumes which he published himself , The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts . ' While it is remembered that from these he excluded many of his ...
... dead , it was the desire of Young to be princi- pally known . He entitled the four volumes which he published himself , The Works of the Author of the Night Thoughts . ' While it is remembered that from these he excluded many of his ...
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ambition angels Anne Wharton art thou beam beneath bids bleeds bless'd bliss blood divine boundless Busiris call'd dark dead death Deity divine Dorset Downs dread dreams Duke of Wharton dust e'en earth Edward Young endless eternal fair fame fate fear fire flame folly fond fool friendship future genius give glorious glory grave grief guilt happiness heart Heaven hope hour human illustrious infidel labour life's light live Lorenzo Lyric Poetry man's mankind mortal Muse Narcissa Nature Nature's ne'er Night Thoughts nought numbers o'er pain passions peace Philander Pindaric pleasure poem poet poetry praise pride proud Reason Reason sleeps rich rise sacred says scene sense shade shines sigh skies smile song soul immortal stars strange thee theme thine throne tomb triumph truth virtue Virtue's wanted wing wing wisdom wise wish wretched Young
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Página 74 - And that through every stage ; when young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 63 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man...
Página 87 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 137 - Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.
Página 64 - An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a God ! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Página 66 - Here pinions all his wishes : wing'd by heaven To fly at infinite, and reach it there, Where seraphs gather immortality, On life's fair tree, fast by the throne of God.
Página 65 - This is the desert, this the solitude : How populous, how vital, is the grave! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom ; The land of apparitions, empty shades ! All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is substance ; the reverse is folly's creed?
Página 11 - It tells her, that his only title to the great honour he now does himself is the obligation which he formerly received from her royal indulgence. 'Of this obligation nothing is now known, unless he alluded to her being his godmother. He is said indeed to have been engaged at a settled stipend as a writer for the court. In Swift's Rhapsody on Poetry...
Página 66 - Where time, and pain, and chance, and death, expire! And is it in the flight of threescore years, To push eternity from human thought, «And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 61 - TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.