 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 páginas
...spending all her fires, Wastingherstrength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fty. EXERCISE 5. Suspensive andConclusive Accents : Continued. 1. As we perceive the shadow to have... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 588 páginas
...all her fires. Wasting her strength in strennous idleness I Thrown into tumult, rapturM, oralarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown afly. YOUNG. u 2 the good things of earth. — And hypocrisy's sister, narrow-hearted Bigotry, who... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1826 - 336 páginas
...Jehovah accustomed thus to pour honour upon a creature, sent on an errand no more grand than his ? , " Is ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly 1" No man can have a very deep sense of sift, and not feel his need of having done for him more than... | |
 | 1827 - 290 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...feather, or to drown a fly. Where falls this censure f It o'erwhelms myself. How was my heart encrusted by the world ! O how self-fetterd was my groveling... | |
 | 1827 - 590 páginas
...things sideways. Mr Child, of Boston— Infantile in ideas, but a roarer in their promulgation — resembles " Ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." Jtfr Cummins, of Salem — A lawyer, and a most violent, passionate and Meth.xl.stiral dehater, has... | |
 | John Paul - 1828 - 338 páginas
...Would this be proper ? An infinite atonement to expiate finite guilt, in my humble apprehension — " Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, " To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." From the infinite value of the atonement we may surely infer the infinity of sin. Calvinists — I... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 278 páginas
...that the very grandeur of their structure, when compared with their design, would remind us of -"an ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." But though, in the present instance, wealth, by the mightiness of the effort, may seem to rival knowledge... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 310 páginas
...the very grandeur of their structure, when compared with their design, would remind us of • " an ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." * But though, in the present instance, wealth, by the mightiness of the effort, may seem to rival knowledge... | |
 | 1829 - 366 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...wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Where, then, and how, can we gain possession of this precious gem, this inestimable treasure, " Which nothing... | |
 | 1829 - 592 páginas
...all its fires, Wasting its strength ¡u strenuous idleness. Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a II y t" AGUR. POETRY. TO Л KOIÎIN, 1'F.KCIIED ON Л PASSION FLOVVliR. LITTLE Robin, dwell with me,... | |
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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... 
