The Complete Poetical Works of Edward Young: With Life ; Eight Steel EngravingsGall & Inglis, 1866 - 502 pages |
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... groaning hospitals eject their dead ! What numbers groan for sad admission there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high - fed , Solicit the cold hand of charity ! To shock us more , solicit it in vain ! Ye silken sons of pleasure ...
... groaning hospitals eject their dead ! What numbers groan for sad admission there ! What numbers , once in fortune's lap high - fed , Solicit the cold hand of charity ! To shock us more , solicit it in vain ! Ye silken sons of pleasure ...
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... groan'd The world beneath , we groan beneath an hour . We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ; prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when ...
... groan'd The world beneath , we groan beneath an hour . We cry for mercy to the next amusement ; The next amusement mortgages our fields ; Slight inconvenience ; prisons hardly frown , From hateful time if prisons set us free . Yet when ...
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... groans resound . Lorenzo , such that sleeper in thy breast ! Such is her slumber ; and her vengeance such For slighted counsel ; such thy future peace ! And think'st thou still thou canst be wise too soon ? But why on time so lavish is ...
... groans resound . Lorenzo , such that sleeper in thy breast ! Such is her slumber ; and her vengeance such For slighted counsel ; such thy future peace ! And think'st thou still thou canst be wise too soon ? But why on time so lavish is ...
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... groans ; Frustrate their anguish , and destroy their deaths ? Lorenzo no ; the thought of death indulge ; Give it its wholesome empire ! let it reign , That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy ! Its reign will spread thy glorious ...
... groans ; Frustrate their anguish , and destroy their deaths ? Lorenzo no ; the thought of death indulge ; Give it its wholesome empire ! let it reign , That kind chastiser of thy soul in joy ! Its reign will spread thy glorious ...
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... groan , Are slender tributes low - tax'd nature pays For mighty gain : the gain of each , a life ! But O ! the last the former so transcends , Life dies , compared ; life lives beyond the grave . And feel I , death ! no joy from thought ...
... groan , Are slender tributes low - tax'd nature pays For mighty gain : the gain of each , a life ! But O ! the last the former so transcends , Life dies , compared ; life lives beyond the grave . And feel I , death ! no joy from thought ...
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ambition angels art thou awful beams beneath bids bless blest bliss boast book of Job breast Britain charms Codrus crown dare dark death deep divine dost dread dust earth EDWARD YOUNG eternal ev'ry fair fame fate fear fire flame fool frown genius give glorious glory gods grace grave grief groan guilt happiness heart heaven hour human illustrious immortal labour leviathan life's light lord Lorenzo man's mankind mighty mind mortal muse nature nature's ne'er night Night Thoughts nought numbers nymphs o'er pain passion peace Pindar pleasure praise pride proud rage rapture reason renown rise sacred satire scene seas sense shine sight skies smile song soul spleen stars sting storm sublime sweet tempest thee theme thine thought throne thunder trembling triumph truth twill virtue virtue's Voltaire wing wisdom wise wretched ye stars
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Page 1 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Page 8 - All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own their future selves applaud; How excellent that life they ne'er will lead! Time lodged in their own hands is Folly's vails; That lodged in Fate's to wisdom they consign; The thing they can't but purpose, they postpone.
Page 8 - Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born : All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel, and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise; At least their own; their future selves...
Page 1 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust : Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Page 297 - Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life.
Page 4 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 277 - I'm nearer death in this verse than the last : What then is to be done ? be wise with speed : A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Page 17 - Where shall I find Him ? Angels ! tell me where. You know him ; He is near you : point him out : Shall I see glories beaming from his brow ? Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers...
Page 149 - Attend my song, and thou shalt know them all ; And know thyself; and know thyself to be (Strange truth !) the most abstemious man alive.
Page 56 - As wise as Socrates, might justly stand The definition of a modern fool. A Christian is the highest style of man : And is there, who the blessed cross wipes off...