 | Mark Akenside - 1744 - 110 pages
.... Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges ; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up 210 In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at...goal. For from the birth ' . - '. Of mortal man, the fov'reign Maker faid, «« That not in humble or in brief delight, " Not in the fading echoes of renown,... | |
 | John Gilbert Cooper - 1757 - 420 pages
...; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep 209 She prunges ; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at...fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the fov'reign Maker faid, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown,... | |
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - 1763 - 382 pages
...below ; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at the fated goal. a. WONDERFULNESS. ——What need words To paint its power ? For this, the daring youth Breaks from... | |
 | Virgil - 1763 - 374 pages
...below ; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at the fated goal. 2. WON2. WONDERFULNESS. What need words To paint its power ? For this, the daring youth Breaks from... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...below ; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges ; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at...fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the fov'reign Maker faid, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown,... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 pages
...below ; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteepShe plunges ; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at the fated goal. 2. WONDERFULNESS. * i i — What need words To paint its power ? For this, the daring youth Breaks... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1744 - 124 pages
...: Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges : foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallowed up 210 In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at...fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the fovran Maker laid, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, 415... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...below; Till, half recoiling, down the headlong fteep She plunges; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes Reft at the fated goal. For from the birth Cf m'orta! man, the fovereign Maker faid, That not in humble nor in brief de-light, Not in the fading... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 404 pages
...gloomy void, aftonifh'd, yet unquell'd, She plungeth ; down the unfathomable gulph Where God alone hath being. There her hopes Reft at the fated goal. For, from the birth 270 Of human kind, the Sovereign Maker faid That not in humble, nor in brief delight, Not in the fleeting... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1794 - 218 pages
...fteep She plunges; foon o'erwhelm'd and fwallow'd up In that immenfe of being. There her hopes 211 Reft at the fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the Sov'reign Maker faid, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown,... | |
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Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The... 
