The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 50-52. kötetSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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7. oldal
... earth and heaven o'erthrown , And gasping nature's last tremendous groan ; Death's antient fceptre broke , the teeming tomb , The righteous Judge , and man's eternal doom . ' Twixt joy and pain I view the bold defign , And ask my ...
... earth and heaven o'erthrown , And gasping nature's last tremendous groan ; Death's antient fceptre broke , the teeming tomb , The righteous Judge , and man's eternal doom . ' Twixt joy and pain I view the bold defign , And ask my ...
8. oldal
... earth fmiles , and hear old ocean roar . Leviathans but heave their cumberous mail , It makes a tide , and wind - bound navies fail . Here , forests rise , the mountain's awful pride ; Here , rivers measure climes , and worlds divide ...
... earth fmiles , and hear old ocean roar . Leviathans but heave their cumberous mail , It makes a tide , and wind - bound navies fail . Here , forests rise , the mountain's awful pride ; Here , rivers measure climes , and worlds divide ...
10. oldal
... earth diffolv'd , or an extinguish'd fun ; ( Ye fublunary worlds , awake , awake ! Ye rulers of the nation , hear , and shake ! ) Thick clouds of darkness shall arife on day ; In fudden night all earth's dominions lay ; Impetuous winds ...
... earth diffolv'd , or an extinguish'd fun ; ( Ye fublunary worlds , awake , awake ! Ye rulers of the nation , hear , and shake ! ) Thick clouds of darkness shall arife on day ; In fudden night all earth's dominions lay ; Impetuous winds ...
12. oldal
... earth , what heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no reft , Still onward in their ...
... earth , what heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no reft , Still onward in their ...
13. oldal
... earth , thy fate : what then canft thou afford To comfort and fupport thy guilty lord ? -- Man , haughty lord of all beneath the moon , How muft he bend his foul's ambition down ? Prostrate , the reptile own , and disavow His boasted ...
... earth , thy fate : what then canft thou afford To comfort and fupport thy guilty lord ? -- Man , haughty lord of all beneath the moon , How muft he bend his foul's ambition down ? Prostrate , the reptile own , and disavow His boasted ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
æther againſt angels art thou becauſe bleffing bleft blifs bliſs boaſt bofom breaſt cauſe charms dæmons darkneſs death defcend deſpair diftant divine dreadful duft earth endleſs eternal facred fafe fair fame fate feen fenfe fhall fhines fhould figh fing fkies flain flame fleep fmile foft fome fong fons fool foon forrow foul fpirit ftill ftrike fuch fure glory guilt happineſs heart heaven himſelf human immortal juft laſt lefs life's loft Lorenzo luftre man's moft mortal moſt muft muſt nature nature's ne'er night numbers o'er paffion pain paſt peace pleaſure praiſe prefent pride proud raiſe reafon rife riſe ſcene ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtorm ſtream ſtrong ſuch thee thefe theme themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne truth virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom
Népszerű szakaszok
1. oldal - 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.
31. oldal - How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!
5. oldal - Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay No moment, but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth ask death-beds ; they can tell.
123. oldal - Enjoy the various riches nature yields ; Far nobler ! give the riches they enjoy ; Give taste to fruits ; and harmony to groves ; Their radiant beams to gold, and gold's bright...
45. oldal - And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
264. oldal - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
15. oldal - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
226. oldal - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
59. oldal - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
35. oldal - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth...