The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 51Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Look down - On what ? a fathomlefs abyfs ; A dread eternity ! how furely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor penfioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how auguft , How complicate , how wonderful ...
... Look down - On what ? a fathomlefs abyfs ; A dread eternity ! how furely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor penfioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how auguft , How complicate , how wonderful ...
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... looks on me , on all : That power , who bids This midnight continel , with clarion fhrill , Emblem of that which fhali awake the dead , 19 Roufe fouis from fumber , into thoughts of heavca . 5 Shall I too weep ? Where then is fortitude ...
... looks on me , on all : That power , who bids This midnight continel , with clarion fhrill , Emblem of that which fhali awake the dead , 19 Roufe fouis from fumber , into thoughts of heavca . 5 Shall I too weep ? Where then is fortitude ...
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... man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on Time as nothing . Nothing elfe Is truly man's ; ' tis fortune's - Time ' s a god . 190 Haft Haft thou ne'er heard of Time's omnipotence ? For , THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 25.
... man , because untouch'd , unseen , He looks on Time as nothing . Nothing elfe Is truly man's ; ' tis fortune's - Time ' s a god . 190 Haft Haft thou ne'er heard of Time's omnipotence ? For , THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT II . 25.
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... look backwards with a smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our profpect by the grave , All feeling of ...
... look backwards with a smile ; Nor , like the Parthian , wound him as they fly ; That common , but opprobrious lot ! paft hours , If not by guilt , yet wound us by their flight , If folly bounds our profpect by the grave , All feeling of ...
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... Look the world around , And tell me what : the wifeft cannot tell . Should any born of woman give his thought Full range , on just dislike's unbounded field ; Of things , the vanity ; of men , the flaws ; Flaws in the best ; the many ...
... Look the world around , And tell me what : the wifeft cannot tell . Should any born of woman give his thought Full range , on just dislike's unbounded field ; Of things , the vanity ; of men , the flaws ; Flaws in the best ; the many ...
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Страница 30 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe, Receive the blefling, and adore the chance,
Страница 15 - both pain us, what can pleafe ? That which the Deity to pleafe ordain'd, Time us'd. The man who confecrates his hours 185 By vigorous effort, and an honeft aim, At once he draws the fting of life and death; He walks 'with Nature; and her paths are peace. Our error's
Страница 52 - The deep damp vault, the darknefs, and the worm; Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, .which nature never made ; 15 Then on the point of his own fancy
Страница 6 - out of life. Procraftination is the thief of time ; Year after year it fteals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves 395 The vaft concerns of an eternal
Страница 95 - Tis a proud mendicant; it boafts, and begs ; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity. 290 Monarchs and minifters are awful names ; Whoever wear them, challenge our devoir. Religion, public order, both exact External homage, and a fupple knee
Страница 73 - Let him not violate kind nature's laws, " But own man born to live as well as die." Wretched and old thou giv'ft him ; young and gay He takes ; and -plunder is a tyrant's joy. What if I prove, " That fartheft from the fear, 790
Страница 28 - A friend, but what has found a friend in Thee. All like the purchafe ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends fuch miracles below. What if (fmce daring on fo nice a theme) I mew thee friendfhip Delicate, as Dear, Of tender violations apt to die
Страница 120 - In this, not bis own place, this foreign field, Where nature fodders him with other food Than was ordain'd his cravings to fuffice, Poor in abundance, famifh'd at a feaft, Sighs on for fomething more, when mojl enjoy'd. 45 Is heaven then kinder to thy flocks than thee ? Not fo ; thy pafture richer, but remote
Страница 35 - And make diftrefs, diftraftion. Oh Philander! What was thy fate ? A double fate to me ; Portent, and pain ! a menace, and a blow! Like the black raven hovering o'er my peace, Not lefs a bird of omen, than of prey. 75 It call'd Narcifl'a long before her hour; It call'd her tender foul, by break of
Страница 108 - tis revolution all; All change ; no death. Day follows night; and night The dying day; ftars rife, and fet, and rife; Earth takes th' example. See, the Summer gay, 680 With her green chaplet, and ambrofial