 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 páginas
...this censure ! It o'erwhelms myself: How was my heart incrusted by the world ! 0 how self-fctter'd was my grovelling soul, How, like a worm, was I wrapt...round and round In silken thought, which reptile fancy span, Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit of endless comfort here, Nor yet... | |
 | 1851 - 650 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in 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 fly ! ! Such is one portrait, behold the other, drawn by the same master-hand : The Almighty, from his... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in 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 fly. PROCRASTIKATION. BE wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer : i Next day the fatal precedent will plead... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 914 páginas
...a few young women thought fit to manifest in this way their benevolence towards a despised race, " Resembles ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." Offences against manners are wisely left to the scourge of public opinion, which proves itself, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness. Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge. Resembles...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. MAN'S REsoLtrnoNS TO REFORM. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterflv upon a wheel ! POPE. — Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 805. Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Youso. — Night I. Line 158. BY. — By and by is easily said. SHARSPERE. — Hamlet, Act III. Scene... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 788 páginas
...risk of occasional misdecision. The bringing them before a more regular tribunal would indeed be — "Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly." Nor does this make in the slightest degree against my general argument. A court consisting of a single... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 páginas
...all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles...tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. Night Thoughts I. Line 149.— EDWARD YOUNG. IDLENESS. The growth of I was brought to my idleness by... | |
 | 1873 - 234 páginas
...village of a hundred inhabitants. Or, if one may so apply the words of the poet Young, their case — " Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather or to drown a fly." There is no waste in nature. The decayed leaves in the forest act as manure for the growing trees.... | |
 | 1864 - 876 páginas
...pathos, but often it is the warmth, and zeal, and pathos of a fanatic — "Sound signifying nothing" — "Ocean into tempest wrought To waft a feather or to drown a fly " — a mountain trembling at the issue of a mouse. The true preacher; he strikes out thoughts from... | |
| |
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... 
