The Complete Poetical Works of Edward Young: With Life ; Eight Steel EngravingsGall & Inglis, 1866 - 502 oldal |
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... beneath the moon , HERE pinions all his wishes ; wing'd by heaven To fly at infinite ; and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow ...
... beneath the moon , HERE pinions all his wishes ; wing'd by heaven To fly at infinite ; and reach it there , Where seraphs gather immortality , On life's fair tree , fast by the throne of God . What golden joys ambrosial clust'ring glow ...
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... beneath . Here teems with revolutions every hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best , More mortal than the common births of fate . Each moment has its sickle , emulous Of time's enormous scythe , whose ample sweep Strikes empires ...
... beneath . Here teems with revolutions every hour ; And rarely for the better ; or the best , More mortal than the common births of fate . Each moment has its sickle , emulous Of time's enormous scythe , whose ample sweep Strikes empires ...
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... beneath , we groan beneath an hour . We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ; prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when death kindly ...
... beneath , we groan beneath an hour . We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ; prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when death kindly ...
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... ' a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heaven , From old eternity's mysterious orb , Was time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode 16 YOUNG'S POETICAL WORKS .
... ' a thousand worlds ; Not on those terms , from the great days of heaven , From old eternity's mysterious orb , Was time cut off , and cast beneath the skies ; The skies , which watch him in his new abode 16 YOUNG'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... beneath . Has death his fopperies ? Then well may life Put on her plume , and in her rainbow shine . Ye well - array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil , nor spin , ( As sister lilies might ) if not so wise As ...
... beneath . Has death his fopperies ? Then well may life Put on her plume , and in her rainbow shine . Ye well - array'd ! ye lilies of our land ! Ye lilies male ! who neither toil , nor spin , ( As sister lilies might ) if not so wise As ...
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ambition angels art thou awful beams beneath bids bless blest bliss boast book of Job breast Britain charms Codrus crown dare dark death deep divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG eternal ev'ry fair fame fate fear fire flame fool frown genius give glorious glory gods grace grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heaven hour human illustrious immortal labour leviathan life's light lord Lorenzo man's mankind mighty mind mortal muse nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers nymphs o'er pain passion peace Pindar pleasure praise pride proud rage rapture reason renown rise sacred satire scene seas sense shine sight skies smile song soul spleen stars sting storm sublime sweet tempest thee theme thine thought throne thunder trembling triumph truth twill virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wretched ye stars
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1. oldal - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
8. oldal - All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own their future selves applaud; How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails; That lodged in Fate's to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they postpone.
8. oldal - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own; their future selves...
1. oldal - Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust : Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
297. oldal - Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
4. oldal - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
277. oldal - I'm nearer death in this verse than the last : What then is to be done ? be wise with speed : A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
17. oldal - Where shall I find Him ? Angels ! tell me where. You know him ; He is near you : point him out : Shall I see glories beaming from his brow ? Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers...
149. oldal - Attend my song, and thou shalt know them all ; And know thyself; and know thyself to be (Strange truth !) the most abstemious man alive.
56. oldal - As wise as Socrates, might justly stand The definition of a modern fool. A Christian is the highest style of man : And is there, who the blessed cross wipes off...