The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, & Robert Johnson, 1805 |
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... happiness ? No means of happiness when virtue yields ; That basis failing , falls the building too , And lays in ruin ev'ry virtuous joy . " The rigid guardian of a blameless heart , So 12 THE COMPLAINT .
... happiness ? No means of happiness when virtue yields ; That basis failing , falls the building too , And lays in ruin ev'ry virtuous joy . " The rigid guardian of a blameless heart , So 12 THE COMPLAINT .
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... , embellishes , exalts Earth's happiness ? from that the delicate , The grand , the marvellous , of civil life , Want and convenience , underworkers , lay The basis on which love of glory builds . Nor 22 THE COMPLAINT .
... , embellishes , exalts Earth's happiness ? from that the delicate , The grand , the marvellous , of civil life , Want and convenience , underworkers , lay The basis on which love of glory builds . Nor 22 THE COMPLAINT .
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... virtue most divine . Is faith a refuge for our happiness ? Most sure ; and is it not for reason too ? Nothing this world unriddles , but the next , Whence inextinguishable thirst of gain ? From inextinguishable life in 24 THE COMPLAINT .
... virtue most divine . Is faith a refuge for our happiness ? Most sure ; and is it not for reason too ? Nothing this world unriddles , but the next , Whence inextinguishable thirst of gain ? From inextinguishable life in 24 THE COMPLAINT .
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... happiness , ( whence hypocrites in joy ! Makers of mirth ! artificers of smiles ! ) Why should the joy most poignant sense affords Burn us with blushes , and rebuke our pride ? — Those heaven - born blushes tell us man descends , E'en ...
... happiness , ( whence hypocrites in joy ! Makers of mirth ! artificers of smiles ! ) Why should the joy most poignant sense affords Burn us with blushes , and rebuke our pride ? — Those heaven - born blushes tell us man descends , E'en ...
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... happiness pursu'd , tho ' never found ? " Man's thirst of happiness declares it is , " ( For nature never gravitates to nought ) " That thirst unquench'd declares it is not here . “ My Lucia , thy Clarissa , call to thought ; CC Why ...
... happiness pursu'd , tho ' never found ? " Man's thirst of happiness declares it is , " ( For nature never gravitates to nought ) " That thirst unquench'd declares it is not here . “ My Lucia , thy Clarissa , call to thought ; CC Why ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ambition angels archangels art thou beams beneath bless'd bliss boast boundless Canst thou charms creation dark death deep Deist Deity delight despair divine dost thou dread dream dust e'er earth endless eternal ethereal ev'ry fall fate flames fond fool gain'd give glorious glory gods grandeur grave guilt happiness heaven hell hope hopes and fears human hearts illustrious infidel instinct learn'd light Lorenzo Lucifer man's mankind midnight mighty mind miracles mortal Nature Nature's ne'er Night nought o'er Omnipotence orbs ordain'd pain passion peace planets pleasure Pleasure's poison'd pow'r praise pride proud Reason rise sacred scene sense shew shines sigh sight skies smile song soul immortal sphere spirit stars stings strange sublunary tempest thee thine thought thro throne triumph truth Twill virtue Virtue's wing wisdom wise wish wonder wretched
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Página 149 - One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine ; And light us deep into the DEITY. How boundless in magnificence and might ! O what a confluence of ethereal fires, From urns unnumber'd, down the steep of heaven, Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! Nor tarries there ; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.
Página 140 - Mii.s fulminate in love to man ; Comets good omens are, when duly scann'd ; And, in their use, eclipses learn to shine. Man is responsible for ills receiv'd ; Those we call wretched are a chosen band, Compell'd to refuge in the right, for peace.
Página 107 - What stronger demonstration of the right? The present all their care, the future his. When public welfare calls, or private want, They give to Fame ; his bounty he conceals. Their virtues varnish Nature, his exalt.
Página 183 - Divine Instructor ! Thy first volume this For man's perusal ; all in capitals...
Página 208 - Through this wide waste of worlds ! this vista vast, " All sanded o'er with suns ; suns turn'd to night " Before thy feeblest beam — LOok down — down — " down, " On a poor breathing particle in dust, " Or, lower, — an immortal in his crimes. " His crimes forgive ! forgive his virtues, too ! " Those smaller faults, half converts to the right...
Página 142 - ... By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist ; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train : Thy gloomy grandeurs (Nature's most august, Inspiring aspect !) claim a grateful verse ; And, like a sable curtain starr'd with gold, Drawn o'er my labours past, shall close the scene.
Página 143 - And spread a lustre o'er the shades of night. Feel I thy kind assent ? and shall the sun Be seen at midnight, rising in my song...
Página 101 - The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
Página 89 - And leaves us perfect blockheads in our bliss. The clouds may drop down titles and estates; Wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought; Sought before all; but (how unlike all else We seek on earth !) 'tis never sought in vain.
Página 74 - Woe then apart (if woe apart can be From mortal man), and fortune at our nod, The gay, rich, great, triumphant, and august ! What are they \ — The most happy (strange to say ! Convince me most of human misery ; 220 1 ' Like a flag floating,