 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...  The Beauties of English Poesy - Страница 108под редакцията на - 1767 - 12 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1817 - 314 страници
...ills the last extreme beware ; Beware, Lorenzo! a slow-sudden death. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 страници
...the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 страници
...not this be strange .' That 't is so frequent, this is stranger still. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 страници
...mercies of a moment leaves Tfie vast concerns of an eternal scene".' Of man's miraculous mistakes, tliis 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, should not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 страници
...would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. 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... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 страници
...the mercies of a moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 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 promise is poor dilatory man, And that through every stage ; when young, indeed, In full content we... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 страници
...the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of ah eternal scene. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, H themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraeulous mistakes, iee the dewy-feather'd sleep : And let some strange mysterious dream Wave at his wings in airy st themselves the eompliment to think They one day shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 страници
...the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 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... | |
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