The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fhall be no more ! This is the bud of being , the dim dawn , The twilight of our day , the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is fhut , and death , Strong death , alone can heave the maffy bar , This grofs impediment of clay remove , And ...
... fhall be no more ! This is the bud of being , the dim dawn , The twilight of our day , the vestibule ; Life's theatre as yet is fhut , and death , Strong death , alone can heave the maffy bar , This grofs impediment of clay remove , And ...
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... fhall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least , their own ; their future felves applaud ; 405 How excellent that life they ne'er will lead ! Time lodg'd in their own hands is folly's vails ; That ...
... fhall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least , their own ; their future felves applaud ; 405 How excellent that life they ne'er will lead ! Time lodg'd in their own hands is folly's vails ; That ...
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... fhall awake the dead , Roufe fouls from flumber , into thoughts of heaven . 5 Shall I too weep ? Where then is fortitude ? And , fortitude abandon'd , where is man ? 10 I know the terms on which he fees the light ; He that is born , is ...
... fhall awake the dead , Roufe fouls from flumber , into thoughts of heaven . 5 Shall I too weep ? Where then is fortitude ? And , fortitude abandon'd , where is man ? 10 I know the terms on which he fees the light ; He that is born , is ...
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... fhall contradict their own . Hence our unnatural quarrels with ourselves ; Our thoughts at enmity ; our bofom - broil ; We push Time from us , and we wish him back Lavish of luftrums , and yet fond of life ; 170 Life we think long , and ...
... fhall contradict their own . Hence our unnatural quarrels with ourselves ; Our thoughts at enmity ; our bofom - broil ; We push Time from us , and we wish him back Lavish of luftrums , and yet fond of life ; 170 Life we think long , and ...
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... fhall we kill each day ? If Trifling kills ; Sure Vice muft butcher . O what heaps of flain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time deftroy'd 285 290 Is Suicide , where more than Blood is spilt . Time flies , death urges , knells call ...
... fhall we kill each day ? If Trifling kills ; Sure Vice muft butcher . O what heaps of flain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time deftroy'd 285 290 Is Suicide , where more than Blood is spilt . Time flies , death urges , knells call ...
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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.