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" The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 231
edited by - 1779
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Poems, &c. Written Upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons

Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 pages
...felf erect: No mortal Parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her Maker praife. The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give o'er; So calm are we,...Paflions are no more: For then we know how vain it was te boaft Of fleeting Things, Co certain to be loflv Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal...
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - 1768 - 366 pages
...flooping, does herfelf erect : No mortal parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbony'd can her MA KER praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er....are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to beaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...with nobler refolutions deckt, The body (looping, does herfelf erecT: : No mortal parts are requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her MAKER praife....quiet, when the winds give o'er : So, calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to...
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A collection of poems on divine and moral subjects, selected from various ...

William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...nor diftant height above, Nor depths below, fhall part me from thy love, THE STATE OF OLD AGE. TH E feas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when paffions rage no more ; Clouds of affection from our younger eyes, Conceals that emptinefs which time...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...nobler refolutions deckt, The body {looping does herfelf erect. No mortal parts are requifite to raifc Her that, unbody'd, can her maker praife. The feas...quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when paffions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...

Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to...
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A View of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland: In the Summer and ...

John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pages
...poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more i For then we know how vain it were to boast . . , Of fleeting things so certain...
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A View of Society and Manners in the North of Ireland: In the Summer and ...

John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pages
...poet of the seventeenth century, whose lines on the subject I cannot forbear transcribing. " The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more ; • • ' for then we know how vain it were to boast . , / Of fleeting things...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er: So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so 'certain to...
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Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural ...

1843 - 350 pages
...weakness may be prone, Let's learn to live, — for we must die, — alone ! Crabbe. OLD AGE. THE seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ; So calm are we, when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to...
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