The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... 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 down , furpriz'd , aghaft , And wondering at her own : How reafon reels ! O what a ...
... 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 down , furpriz'd , aghaft , And wondering at her own : How reafon reels ! O what a ...
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... dust , to spread O'er duft ! a charity their dogs enjoy . 165 170 What could I do ? What fuccour ? What refource ? With pious facrilege , a grave I ftole ; 175 With impious piety , that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my ...
... dust , to spread O'er duft ! a charity their dogs enjoy . 165 170 What could I do ? What fuccour ? What refource ? With pious facrilege , a grave I ftole ; 175 With impious piety , that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my ...
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... dust , And fave the world a nuisance . Smitten friends Are angels fent on errands full of love ; For us they languish , and for us they die : And shall they languish , fhall they die , in vain ? 295 Ungrateful , fhall we grieve their ...
... dust , And fave the world a nuisance . Smitten friends Are angels fent on errands full of love ; For us they languish , and for us they die : And shall they languish , fhall they die , in vain ? 295 Ungrateful , fhall we grieve their ...
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... dust , Which frugal nature lent him for an hour ! Years unexperienc'd rush on numerous ills ; And foon as man , expert from time , has found The key of life , it opes the gates of death . When in this vale of years I backward look , And ...
... dust , Which frugal nature lent him for an hour ! Years unexperienc'd rush on numerous ills ; And foon as man , expert from time , has found The key of life , it opes the gates of death . When in this vale of years I backward look , And ...
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... dust . brow , O thou great arbiter of life and death ! Nature's immortal , immaterial fun ! Whofe all - prolific beam late call'd me forth From darkness , teeming darknefs , where I lay The worm's inferior , and , in rank , beneath The ...
... dust . brow , O thou great arbiter of life and death ! Nature's immortal , immaterial fun ! Whofe all - prolific beam late call'd me forth From darkness , teeming darknefs , where I lay The worm's inferior , and , in rank , beneath The ...
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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.