The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 51,Página 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... grief . Take then , O World ! thy much - indebted tear : How fad a fight is human happiness , 290 295 300 305 To those whose thought can pierce beyond an hour ! O thou ! whate'er thou art , whose heart exults ! Wouldst thou I should ...
... grief . Take then , O World ! thy much - indebted tear : How fad a fight is human happiness , 290 295 300 305 To those whose thought can pierce beyond an hour ! O thou ! whate'er thou art , whose heart exults ! Wouldst thou I should ...
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... Grief's fharpeft thorn hard preffing on my breast , I ftrive , with wakeful melody , to chear The fullen gloom , fweet Philomel ! like Thee , And call the ftars to liften : every ftar Is deaf to mine , enamour'd of thy lay . Yet be not ...
... Grief's fharpeft thorn hard preffing on my breast , I ftrive , with wakeful melody , to chear The fullen gloom , fweet Philomel ! like Thee , And call the ftars to liften : every ftar Is deaf to mine , enamour'd of thy lay . Yet be not ...
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... grief Call glory - Doft thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou fay'ft it : Says thy life the fame ? $ He mourns the dead , who lives as they defire . Where is that thirst , that avarice of Time , ( O glorious avarice ! ) thought of ...
... grief Call glory - Doft thou mourn Philander's fate ? I know thou fay'ft it : Says thy life the fame ? $ He mourns the dead , who lives as they defire . Where is that thirst , that avarice of Time , ( O glorious avarice ! ) thought of ...
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... grief and joy ! 680 Amazement ftrikes ! devotion burfts to flame ! Chriftians Adore ! and Infidels Believe . 685 As fome tall tower , or lofty mountain's brow , Detains the fun , Illuftrious from its height ; While rifing vapours , and ...
... grief and joy ! 680 Amazement ftrikes ! devotion burfts to flame ! Chriftians Adore ! and Infidels Believe . 685 As fome tall tower , or lofty mountain's brow , Detains the fun , Illuftrious from its height ; While rifing vapours , and ...
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... grief that started from my lids for Him : Seizes the faithlefs , alienated tear , Or fhares it , ere it falls . So frequent death , Sorrow he more than caufes , he confounds ; For human fighs his rival strokes contend , And make ditress ...
... grief that started from my lids for Him : Seizes the faithlefs , alienated tear , Or fhares it , ere it falls . So frequent death , Sorrow he more than caufes , he confounds ; For human fighs his rival strokes contend , And make ditress ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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.