The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... eternal day . For human weal , heaven hufbands all events ; 105 Dull fleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel ...
... eternal day . For human weal , heaven hufbands all events ; 105 Dull fleep instructs , nor sport vain dreams in vain . Why then their loss deplore , that are not loft ? Why wanders wretched thought their tombs around , In infidel ...
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... Eternal funshine in the ftorms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perspective ! Till at death's toll , whose restless iron tongue Calls daily for ...
... Eternal funshine in the ftorms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perspective ! Till at death's toll , whose restless iron tongue Calls daily for ...
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... eternal schemes , As we the fatal fifters could out - spin , 380 And , big with life's futurities , expire .. Not ev'n Philander had bespoke his shroud : Nor had he caufe ; a warning was deny'd : 385 How many fall as fudden , not as ...
... eternal schemes , As we the fatal fifters could out - spin , 380 And , big with life's futurities , expire .. Not ev'n Philander had bespoke his shroud : Nor had he caufe ; a warning was deny'd : 385 How many fall as fudden , not as ...
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... Eternal war with wee . Who bears it beft , Deferves it leaft . - On other themes I'll dwell . Lorenzo ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine ...
... Eternal war with wee . Who bears it beft , Deferves it leaft . - On other themes I'll dwell . Lorenzo ! let me turn my thoughts on thee , And thine , on themes may profit ; profit there , Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuine ...
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... joy , To drag your patient through the tedious length Of a fhort winter's day - fay , fages ! fay , Wit's oracles ! fay , dreamers of gay dreams ! 250 How How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 27.
... joy , To drag your patient through the tedious length Of a fhort winter's day - fay , fages ! fay , Wit's oracles ! fay , dreamers of gay dreams ! 250 How How will you weather an eternal night , Where fuch THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 27.
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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.