The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 50-52Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 - English poetry |
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... despair ; Oh fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no ...
... despair ; Oh fay , what change on earth , what heart in man , This blackest moment fince the world began . Ah mournful turn ! the blissful earth , who late At leifure on her axle roll'd in state ; While thousand golden planets knew no ...
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... despair . Reader , if guilty , spare the Muse , and find A truer image pictur'd in thy mind . Shouldst thou behold thy brother , father , wife , And all the foft companions of thy life , Whose blended interefts level'd at one aim ...
... despair . Reader , if guilty , spare the Muse , and find A truer image pictur'd in thy mind . Shouldst thou behold thy brother , father , wife , And all the foft companions of thy life , Whose blended interefts level'd at one aim ...
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... despair a distant end ? “ With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arife , " Where thought can't follow , and bold fancy dies ! 155 " NEVER ! where falls the foul at that dread found ? " Down an abyss how dark , and how profound ...
... despair a distant end ? “ With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arife , " Where thought can't follow , and bold fancy dies ! 155 " NEVER ! where falls the foul at that dread found ? " Down an abyss how dark , and how profound ...
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... despair a distant end ? " With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arise , " Where thought can't follow , and bold fancy dies ! 155 " NEVER ! where falls the foul at that dread found ? " Down an abyss how dark , and how profound ...
... despair a distant end ? " With dreadful growth shoot forward , and arise , " Where thought can't follow , and bold fancy dies ! 155 " NEVER ! where falls the foul at that dread found ? " Down an abyss how dark , and how profound ...
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... despair : Slow , like a ghost , he mov'd with folemn A dying paleness fat upon his face . Back fhe recoil'd , fhe fmote her lovely breast , Her eyes the anguish of her heart confefs'd ; Struck to the foul , fhe ftagger'd with the wound ...
... despair : Slow , like a ghost , he mov'd with folemn A dying paleness fat upon his face . Back fhe recoil'd , fhe fmote her lovely breast , Her eyes the anguish of her heart confefs'd ; Struck to the foul , fhe ftagger'd with the wound ...
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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...