Nod o'er the scutcheons of the dead ? Nor can the parted body know, Nor wants the soul, these forms of woe. As men who long in prison dwell, With lamps that glimmer round the cell, Whene'er their suffering years are run, Spring forth to greet the glittering... The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 147by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| Thomas Parnell - 1767 - 250 pages
...But when their chains are cad afide, See the glad fcene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tow'r away, And mingle with the blaze of day. A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT. LOVELY, lafting peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human-kind ! j Icavnly born, and bred on high, To crown the... | |
| Thomas Parnell - English literature - 1767 - 250 pages
...when their chains are caft afidc, See the glad fcene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tow'r away, And mingle with the blaze of day. A HYMN TO CONTENTMENT. j O v ELY, lafting peace of mind ! •*— * Sweet delight of human-kind! Heavn'ly born, and bred on... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...plac'd, A few, and evil years, they .wafte i -But when their chains are caft afide, See the glad fcene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tower away, And mingle with the blaze of day. 'HYMNTOCONTENTME NT. LOVE LY, lafting peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! .. Heavenly born,... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1779 - 422 pages
...plac'd, A few, and evil years, they wafte i But when their chains are caft afide, See the glad fcene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tower away, And mingle with the blaze of day. HYMN TO CONTENTMENT. LOVE LY, lafting peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 334 pages
...plac'd, A few, and evil years, they wafte : But when their chains are caft afide, See the glad fcene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tower away, And mingle with the blaze of day. HYMN TO CONTENTMENT. j OVELY, lafting peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind ! Heavenly born,... | |
| 1795 - 846 pages
...years, they wafie : Bat when their chain« are caft afide, $t: the glad fcene unfolding wide, Ciap the glad wing, and tower away, And mingle with the blaze of day. HYMN TO CONTENrMENT. Ï.OVELT, lading peace of mind ! Sweet delight of human kind '. Htavenly born,... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...transcending sense, Have pious souls at parting hence. On earth, and in the body plac'd, A few''and evil years, they waste; But when their chains are...the glad scene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and-tow'r- away, And mingle with the blaze of day, ' ' . . ' • MESSIAH. POPE. ' ' JL E nymphs of... | |
| Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...earth and in the hody plac'd, A ('<•« and evil yean, they waste : But when their chains are east aside, See the glad scene unfolding wide. Clap the glad wing, and tower away, And mingle with the hlaze of day. HYMN TO HUMANHT. Parent of virtue, if 1 liine ear Attend not now to sorrow's cry ; If... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...though far transcending sense, Have pious souls at parting hence. On earth, and in the body plac'd, A few and evil years, they waste ; But when their...glad scene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tow'r away, And mingle with the blaze of day. 137 MESSIAH. • POPE. j E nymphs of Solyma! begin the... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...heuce. On Earth, and in the body plac'd, A few and evil years they waste : Dut when their chains they cast aside, See the glad scene unfolding wide, Clap the glad wing, and tow'r away, And mingle with the blaze of day. HEALTH; an ECLOGUE. (PARNELL.) Now early shepherds o'er... | |
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