Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817 |
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... vain . Here reason its eternal Author finds , The whole who regulates , unites , and binds , Enlivens matter , and produces minds . Inactive Chaos sleeps in dull repose , Nor knowledge thence FART I DEVOTIONAL AND MORAE .
... vain . Here reason its eternal Author finds , The whole who regulates , unites , and binds , Enlivens matter , and produces minds . Inactive Chaos sleeps in dull repose , Nor knowledge thence FART I DEVOTIONAL AND MORAE .
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... vain material semblance feign , Or figur'd shrines the boundless God contain ; Object of faith ! he shuns the view of sense , Lost in the blaze of sightless excellence ; Most perfect , most intelligent , most wise , In whom the sanctity ...
... vain material semblance feign , Or figur'd shrines the boundless God contain ; Object of faith ! he shuns the view of sense , Lost in the blaze of sightless excellence ; Most perfect , most intelligent , most wise , In whom the sanctity ...
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... Vain task ! the clay in the directing hand , The reason of its form might so demand , As man presume to question his dispose From whom the power he thus abuses flows . Here point , fair Muse ! the worship God requires , The soul inflam ...
... Vain task ! the clay in the directing hand , The reason of its form might so demand , As man presume to question his dispose From whom the power he thus abuses flows . Here point , fair Muse ! the worship God requires , The soul inflam ...
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... comfortless the sense Of a defective partial providence : Boldly might then his arm injustice brave , Or innocence in vain his mercy crave ; Dejected virtue lift its hopeless eye , And heavy sorrow PART I. 15 DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL .
... comfortless the sense Of a defective partial providence : Boldly might then his arm injustice brave , Or innocence in vain his mercy crave ; Dejected virtue lift its hopeless eye , And heavy sorrow PART I. 15 DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL .
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... Vain were our hope , and empty were our fear ; Unpunish'd vice would o'er the world prevail , And unrewarded virtue toil - to fail ! The moral world a second chaos lie , And nature sicken to the thoughtful eye . Even the weak embryo ...
... Vain were our hope , and empty were our fear ; Unpunish'd vice would o'er the world prevail , And unrewarded virtue toil - to fail ! The moral world a second chaos lie , And nature sicken to the thoughtful eye . Even the weak embryo ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adore Almighty angels beam behold beneath bids birth bless bless'd bliss boundless breast breath bright brute celestial cloud dark death deep divine doth dread dust earth eternal ev'n ev'ry exalted fair fate fear fire fix'd flame glorious glory grave happy hast heart Heav'n heavenly hope human immortal Justice King light Lord lyre Manichæan mercy mind monsters drink mortal Muse nature Nature's ne'er night nought o'er Omnipotence pain peace poison'd pow'r praise pride rage reason reigns rise rising universe roll round ruling angels sacred sapience SATIRE OF JUVENAL scene seraph shade shalt shine sight silver plumes sing skies smiles Soame Jenyns song soul springs stream sweet tempest thee thine thou thought throne Thy hand toil tongue trembling truth universal store vex'd virtue voice whence wild wings Wisdom wise wretch
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Página 239 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 41 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 252 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Página 257 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Página 3 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 37 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
Página 258 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
Página 272 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Página 144 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.