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... divine ! Dim miniature of greatness abfolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! infect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! -I tremble at myself , And in myself am loft ! at home a stranger , Thought wanders up and ...
... divine ! Dim miniature of greatness abfolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! infect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! -I tremble at myself , And in myself am loft ! at home a stranger , Thought wanders up and ...
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... divine decree ! A bold invafion of the rights of heaven ! I clasp'd the phantoms , and I found them air . O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What darts of agony had mifs'd my heart ! 200 205 Death ! great proprietor of all ! tis ...
... divine decree ! A bold invafion of the rights of heaven ! I clasp'd the phantoms , and I found them air . O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What darts of agony had mifs'd my heart ! 200 205 Death ! great proprietor of all ! tis ...
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... divine , To lull my griefs , and steal my heart from woe ! I roll their raptures , but not catch their fire . Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or , Milton ! thee ; ah , could I reach your strain ! Or His , who made ...
... divine , To lull my griefs , and steal my heart from woe ! I roll their raptures , but not catch their fire . Dark , though not blind , like thee , Mæonides ! Or , Milton ! thee ; ah , could I reach your strain ! Or His , who made ...
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... divine . Is this our duty , wisdom , glory , gain ? ( These heaven benign in vital union binds ) And sport we like the natives of the bough , When vernal funs infpire ? Amusement reigns Man's great demand : To trifle , is to live : And ...
... divine . Is this our duty , wisdom , glory , gain ? ( These heaven benign in vital union binds ) And sport we like the natives of the bough , When vernal funs infpire ? Amusement reigns Man's great demand : To trifle , is to live : And ...
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... divine . 205 210 Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like numerous wings around him , as he flies : Or , rather , as unequal plumes , they shape His ample pinions , fwift as darted flame , To gain his goal , to ...
... divine . 205 210 Hours , days , and months , and years , his children , play , Like numerous wings around him , as he flies : Or , rather , as unequal plumes , they shape His ample pinions , fwift as darted flame , To gain his goal , to ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 51 Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1779 |
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces ..., Volume 51,Página 2 Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1779 |
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æther againſt ambition angels art thou Becauſe bleft blifs bluſh boaſt breaſt caufe cauſe chimæra dæmons dark darkneſs death defcend Deity deſpair divine Doft dread duft duſt earth endleſs eternal ev'n facred fame fate feen fenfe fhall fhines fhould figh fight fing fkies fleeps fmile foft fome fong fool foon foul immortal ftill fuch fure glory grave guilt happineſs heart heaven himſelf hope hour human illuftrious juft laſt lefs life's loft Lorenzo man's mankind moft mortal moſt muft muſt Narciffa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffion pain peace pleaſure praiſe prefent pride proud reafon rife ſcene ſcheme ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhare ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpirit ſtand ſtars ſtill ſtream ſtrike ſtrong thee thefe theme themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne tomb truth virtue virtue's whofe whoſe wife wiſdom wiſh wretched
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Página 40 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Página 5 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Página 32 - 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 146 - Its tenure sure ; its income is divine. High-built abundance, heap on heap ! for what ? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more ; Then, make a richer scramble for the throng...
Página 249 - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Página 62 - Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Página 5 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn sound.
Página 4 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve...
Página 52 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth...
Página 80 - Though yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold ? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.