The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clustering glow , In His full beam , and ripen for the juft , Where momentary ages are no more ! * 140 Where time , and pain , and chance , and death expire ! 145 And is ...
... fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clustering glow , In His full beam , and ripen for the juft , Where momentary ages are no more ! * 140 Where time , and pain , and chance , and death expire ! 145 And is ...
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... fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The prefent moment terminates our fight ; 355 360 Clouds , thick as those on doomsday , drown the next ; 365 We penetrate , we prophecy in vain . Time is dealt out by particles ; and ...
... fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The prefent moment terminates our fight ; 355 360 Clouds , thick as those on doomsday , drown the next ; 365 We penetrate , we prophecy in vain . Time is dealt out by particles ; and ...
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... fair , As man's own choice ( controuler of the skies ! ) As man's defpotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn 395 ...
... fair , As man's own choice ( controuler of the skies ! ) As man's defpotic will , perhaps one hour , ( O how omnipotent is time ! ) decrees ; Should not each warning give a strong alarm ? Warning , far less than that of bosom torn 395 ...
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... fair days in winter , for the spring ; And turn our blessings into bane . Since oft Man must compute that age he cannot feel , He scarce believes he ' s older for his years . Thus , at life's latest eve , we keep in store One ...
... fair days in winter , for the spring ; And turn our blessings into bane . Since oft Man must compute that age he cannot feel , He scarce believes he ' s older for his years . Thus , at life's latest eve , we keep in store One ...
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... fair Is Virtue kindling at a rival fire , And , emulously , rapid in her race . O the foft enmity ! endearing ftrife ! This carries friendship to her noon - tide point , And gives the rivet of eternity . 525 530 From Friendship , which ...
... fair Is Virtue kindling at a rival fire , And , emulously , rapid in her race . O the foft enmity ! endearing ftrife ! This carries friendship to her noon - tide point , And gives the rivet of eternity . 525 530 From Friendship , which ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces ..., Volumen51,Página 2 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1779 |
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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.