 | 1810 - 702 páginas
...may be said in the language of Dr. Young, with more truth than poetry, that he VOL. IV. G " Resembled ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fly." An imagination so active, and governed by a sensibility as ardent, delighted to hold a dangerous career.... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...incrusted by the world! O how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul! How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken thought, which reptile Fancy... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 416 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul ! How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken thought, which reptile Fancy... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 412 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself j How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul ! How, like a... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 402 páginas
...fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, — "^"^ Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...fly. Where falls this censure ? It o'erwhelms myself - r How was my heart incrusted by the world! O how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul! How, like a... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 248 páginas
...iirts, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness ; Thrown, into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten, or, indulge, Resembles Ocean...tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. ' and is equally stabbed by the reproof of u friend, and the sneer of a foe.. ..The spirit of independence,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 284 páginas
...fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At ought this scene can threaten, or indulge, Resembles ocean...myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterM was my grov'ling soul! How, like a worm, was I rape round and round In silken thought,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 238 páginas
...fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At ought this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean...o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart incrusted by the world ! () how self-fetter'd was my grov'ling soul! How, like a worm, was I wrapt round and round In silken... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 586 páginas
...fires, ** Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness— " Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, " At aught this- Scene can threaten, or indulge, ** Resembles Ocean into tempest huri'd " To waft a Feather, or to drown a Fly. " Beware what earth calls Happiness : beware " All joys,... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - 1807 - 588 páginas
...fires, « Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness— " Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm 'd, " At aught this Scene can threaten, or indulge, •* Resembles Ocean into tempest hurl'd " To waft a Feather, or to drown a Fly. " Beware what earth calls Happiness : beware " All joys,... | |
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And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd At aught... 
