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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... pain'd ; The glorious foreigners , distress'd , shall sigh On thrones , and thou congratulate the sigh . Man's misery declares him born for bliss ; His anxious heart asserts the truth I sing , And gives the sceptic in his head the lie ...
... pain'd ; The glorious foreigners , distress'd , shall sigh On thrones , and thou congratulate the sigh . Man's misery declares him born for bliss ; His anxious heart asserts the truth I sing , And gives the sceptic in his head the lie ...
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... wise to misery ? Why of his proud prerogative the prey ? Why less pre - eminent in rank than pain ? His immortality alone can tell , Full ample fund to balance all amiss , And turn the scale in favour of the just ! 10 THE COMPLAINT .
... wise to misery ? Why of his proud prerogative the prey ? Why less pre - eminent in rank than pain ? His immortality alone can tell , Full ample fund to balance all amiss , And turn the scale in favour of the just ! 10 THE COMPLAINT .
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... pain from seeming claims so fair ? In future age lies no redress ? and shuts Eternity the door on our complaint ? If so , for what strange ends were mortals made ! The worst to wallow , and the best to weep ; The man who merits most ...
... pain from seeming claims so fair ? In future age lies no redress ? and shuts Eternity the door on our complaint ? If so , for what strange ends were mortals made ! The worst to wallow , and the best to weep ; The man who merits most ...
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... pain , And tho ' success disgusts , yet still , Lorenzo ! In vain we strive to pluck it from our hearts , By Nature planted for the noblest ends . Absurd the fam'd advice to Pyrrhus giv'n , More prais'd than ponder'd ; specious , but ...
... pain , And tho ' success disgusts , yet still , Lorenzo ! In vain we strive to pluck it from our hearts , By Nature planted for the noblest ends . Absurd the fam'd advice to Pyrrhus giv'n , More prais'd than ponder'd ; specious , but ...
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... pains unpaid ) must die ? Why freighted rich to dash against a rock ? Were man to perish when most fit to live , O how mispent were all these stratagems , By skill divine inwoven in our frame ! Where are heaven's holiness and mercy fled ...
... pains unpaid ) must die ? Why freighted rich to dash against a rock ? Were man to perish when most fit to live , O how mispent were all these stratagems , By skill divine inwoven in our frame ! Where are heaven's holiness and mercy fled ...
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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,