Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Poets. : Volume I[-VI] ...Kirk & Mercein, 22, Wall-Street., 1817 - English poetry |
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... , very soon , this world's unholy dreams , Its poor possessors , and their trifling schemes * Written in sickness . Shall worthless seem to thee , as leaves embrown'd That 54 BOOK I ELEGANT EXTRACTS . To my soul Davenport Soame Jenyns.
... , very soon , this world's unholy dreams , Its poor possessors , and their trifling schemes * Written in sickness . Shall worthless seem to thee , as leaves embrown'd That 54 BOOK I ELEGANT EXTRACTS . To my soul Davenport Soame Jenyns.
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... leaves embrown'd That blasts autumnal scatter o'er the ground . O then , from all of earthly taint made free , What scenes unthought thy blessed eyes may see ! Perhaps commission'd thou shalt bend thy flight , Where worlds and suns roll ...
... leaves embrown'd That blasts autumnal scatter o'er the ground . O then , from all of earthly taint made free , What scenes unthought thy blessed eyes may see ! Perhaps commission'd thou shalt bend thy flight , Where worlds and suns roll ...
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... leaves the pride of wealth , The flatteries of youth and health , And fame's more precious breath ; And ev'ry gaudy circumstance , That doth the pomp of life advance , At the approach of death ? The cunning of astrologers Observes each ...
... leaves the pride of wealth , The flatteries of youth and health , And fame's more precious breath ; And ev'ry gaudy circumstance , That doth the pomp of life advance , At the approach of death ? The cunning of astrologers Observes each ...
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... leave behind ; Thy heir with smiles shall view thy blazon'd hearse , And all thy hoards with lavish hand disperse . Should certain Fate th ' impending blow delay , Thy mirth will sicken , and thy bloom decay ; Then feeble age will all ...
... leave behind ; Thy heir with smiles shall view thy blazon'd hearse , And all thy hoards with lavish hand disperse . Should certain Fate th ' impending blow delay , Thy mirth will sicken , and thy bloom decay ; Then feeble age will all ...
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... leave his race thus scatter'd o'er the earth , Along the gentle slope of life's decline He bent his gradual way , till full of years He dropt like mellow fruit into his grave . Such in the infancy of time was man ; So calm was life , so ...
... leave his race thus scatter'd o'er the earth , Along the gentle slope of life's decline He bent his gradual way , till full of years He dropt like mellow fruit into his grave . Such in the infancy of time was man ; So calm was life , so ...
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adore Almighty angels beam behold beneath bids birth bless bless'd bliss boundless breast breath bright brute celestial cloud dark death deep divine doth dread dust earth eternal ev'n ev'ry exalted fair fate fear fire fix'd flame glorious glory grave happy hast heart Heav'n heavenly hope human immortal Justice King light Lord lyre Manichæan mercy mind monsters drink mortal Muse nature Nature's ne'er night nought o'er Omnipotence pain peace poison'd pow'r praise pride rage reason reigns rise rising universe roll round ruling angels sacred sapience SATIRE OF JUVENAL scene seraph shade shalt shine sight silver plumes sing skies smiles Soame Jenyns song soul springs stream sweet tempest thee thine thou thought throne Thy hand toil tongue trembling truth universal store vex'd virtue voice whence wild wings Wisdom wise wretch
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Page 239 - 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 41 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 252 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 257 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 3 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 37 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
Page 258 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 143 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee.
Page 272 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 144 - tis nought to me, Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.