The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen51,Página 2C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... ftill , and nature made a pause ; An awful paufe ! prophetic of her end . 15 20 25 And let her prophecy be foon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lofe no more . Silence and Darkness ! folemn fifters ! twins From ancient Night ...
... ftill , and nature made a pause ; An awful paufe ! prophetic of her end . 15 20 25 And let her prophecy be foon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lofe no more . Silence and Darkness ! folemn fifters ! twins From ancient Night ...
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... ftill nearer the great mark Of men and angels ; virtue more divine . Is this our duty , wisdom , glory , gain ? ( These heaven benign in vital union binds ) And sport we like the natives of the bough , When vernal funs infpire ...
... ftill nearer the great mark Of men and angels ; virtue more divine . Is this our duty , wisdom , glory , gain ? ( These heaven benign in vital union binds ) And sport we like the natives of the bough , When vernal funs infpire ...
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... ftill be thine ; This cancels thy complaint at once , This leaves In act no trifle , and no blank in time . This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to ...
... ftill be thine ; This cancels thy complaint at once , This leaves In act no trifle , and no blank in time . This greatens , fills , immortalizes all ; This , the bleft art of turning all to gold ; This , the good heart's prerogative to ...
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... ftill ; The spirit walks of every day deceas'd ; If time paft , And smiles an angel , or a fury frowns . Nor death , nor life delight us . And time poffeft , both pain us , what can pleafe ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , 180 ...
... ftill ; The spirit walks of every day deceas'd ; If time paft , And smiles an angel , or a fury frowns . Nor death , nor life delight us . And time poffeft , both pain us , what can pleafe ? That which the Deity to please ordain'd , 180 ...
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... ftill fofter , or be chid ; 235 240 And other worlds fend odours , fauce , and fong , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! O ye Lorenzos of our age ! who deem 249 One moment unamus'd , a misery Not made for feeble man ...
... ftill fofter , or be chid ; 235 240 And other worlds fend odours , fauce , and fong , And robes , and notions , fram'd in foreign looms ! O ye Lorenzos of our age ! who deem 249 One moment unamus'd , a misery Not made for feeble man ...
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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.