The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 50-52Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... fate ! ) This hour , for aught all human wisdom knows , Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose ; When scenes are chang'd on this revolving earth , Old empires fall , and give new empires birth ; While other Bourbons rule in other ...
... fate ! ) This hour , for aught all human wisdom knows , Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose ; When scenes are chang'd on this revolving earth , Old empires fall , and give new empires birth ; While other Bourbons rule in other ...
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... fate : what then canft thou afford To comfort and fupport thy guilty lord ? -- Man , haughty lord of all beneath the moon , How muft he bend his foul's ambition down ? Prostrate , the reptile own , and disavow His boasted stature , and ...
... fate : what then canft thou afford To comfort and fupport thy guilty lord ? -- Man , haughty lord of all beneath the moon , How muft he bend his foul's ambition down ? Prostrate , the reptile own , and disavow His boasted stature , and ...
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... fate : This soul , returning with a constant flame , Now weds for ever her immortal frame . 50 end , 55 60 , Life , which ran down before , so high is wound , The springs maintain an everlasting round . Thus a frail model of the work ...
... fate : This soul , returning with a constant flame , Now weds for ever her immortal frame . 50 end , 55 60 , Life , which ran down before , so high is wound , The springs maintain an everlasting round . Thus a frail model of the work ...
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... fate * Of guilty fouls ; the gloomy realms of woe ; And all the horrors of the world below ; I next prefume to fing : What yet remains Demands my laft , but most exalted strains . And let the Mufe or now affect the sky , Or in ...
... fate * Of guilty fouls ; the gloomy realms of woe ; And all the horrors of the world below ; I next prefume to fing : What yet remains Demands my laft , but most exalted strains . And let the Mufe or now affect the sky , Or in ...
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... fate ? 145 150 " Take , take full vengeance , rouze the flackening flame ; " Juft is my lot - but oh ! must it transcend " The reach of time , despair a distant end ? “ With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arife , " Where thought ...
... fate ? 145 150 " Take , take full vengeance , rouze the flackening flame ; " Juft is my lot - but oh ! must it transcend " The reach of time , despair a distant end ? “ With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arife , " Where thought ...
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Page 1 - tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 31 - How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides the heart!
Page 5 - Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay No moment, but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth ask death-beds ; they can tell.
Page 123 - Enjoy the various riches nature yields ; Far nobler ! give the riches they enjoy ; Give taste to fruits ; and harmony to groves ; Their radiant beams to gold, and gold's bright...
Page 45 - And soon as man, expert from time, has found The key of life, it opes the gates of death.
Page 264 - We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 15 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 226 - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Page 59 - Religion's All. Descending from the skies To wretched man, the goddess in her left Holds out this world, and, in her right, the next...
Page 35 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth...