The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 51Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Soul , This double night , tranfinit one pitying ray , To lighten , and to chear . O lead my mind , ( A mind that fain would wander from its woe ) Lead it through various scenes of Life and Death And from each scene , the nobleft truths ...
... Soul , This double night , tranfinit one pitying ray , To lighten , and to chear . O lead my mind , ( A mind that fain would wander from its woe ) Lead it through various scenes of Life and Death And from each scene , the nobleft truths ...
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... Souls elevate , angelic , wing'd with fire To reach the diftant fkies , and triumph there 350 355 On thrones , which shall not mourn their mafters chang'd ; Though we from Earth ; Ethereal , they that fell . Such veneration due , O man ...
... Souls elevate , angelic , wing'd with fire To reach the diftant fkies , and triumph there 350 355 On thrones , which shall not mourn their mafters chang'd ; Though we from Earth ; Ethereal , they that fell . Such veneration due , O man ...
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... soul , Dismount her , like the ferpent at the fall , Difmount her from her native wing ( which foar'd Ere - while ethereal heights ) , and throw her down , To lick the duft , and crawl in fuch a thought . Is it in words to paint you ? O ...
... soul , Dismount her , like the ferpent at the fall , Difmount her from her native wing ( which foar'd Ere - while ethereal heights ) , and throw her down , To lick the duft , and crawl in fuch a thought . Is it in words to paint you ? O ...
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... soul For lodging ill ; too dearly rents her clay . Reafon , a baffled counsellor ! but adds The blush of weakness to the bane of woe . The noblest spirit , fighting her hard fate , In this damp , dusky region , charg'd with storms , But ...
... soul For lodging ill ; too dearly rents her clay . Reafon , a baffled counsellor ! but adds The blush of weakness to the bane of woe . The noblest spirit , fighting her hard fate , In this damp , dusky region , charg'd with storms , But ...
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... soul , Blafted from hell , with horrid luft of death . Thy friend , the brave , the gallant Altamont , 435 So call'd , fo thought - And then he fled the field . 440 Lefs Lefs bafe the fear of death , than fear of THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT V ...
... soul , Blafted from hell , with horrid luft of death . Thy friend , the brave , the gallant Altamont , 435 So call'd , fo thought - And then he fled the field . 440 Lefs Lefs bafe the fear of death , than fear of THE COMPLAINT , NIGHT V ...
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Page 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,
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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