The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 51, Page 2H. Hughs, 1779 |
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... feel the folemn found . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 60 It is the fignal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd ...
... feel the folemn found . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 60 It is the fignal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd ...
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... feels . More generous forrow , while it sinks , exalts ;. And confcious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue , more than prudence , bids me give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken too , the torrent of their ...
... feels . More generous forrow , while it sinks , exalts ;. And confcious virtue mitigates the pang . Nor virtue , more than prudence , bids me give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken too , the torrent of their ...
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... feel his error , if unseen : And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not , blundering , fplit on idleness for cafe . Life's cares are comforts ; fuch by heaven defign'd ; 160 He that has none , muft make them , or be wretched ...
... feel his error , if unseen : And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not , blundering , fplit on idleness for cafe . Life's cares are comforts ; fuch by heaven defign'd ; 160 He that has none , muft make them , or be wretched ...
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... feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like paffion for eternals quencht ; 340 All relish of realities expir'd ; Renounc'd all correspondence with the skies ; Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our defire ; In fenfe dark - prifon'd ...
... feeling of futurity benumb'd ; All god - like paffion for eternals quencht ; 340 All relish of realities expir'd ; Renounc'd all correspondence with the skies ; Our freedom chain'd ; quite wingless our defire ; In fenfe dark - prifon'd ...
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... feel , He scarce believes he ' s older for his years . Thus , at life's latest eve , we keep in store One disappointment fure , to crown the rest ; The difappointment of a promis'd hour . On This , or fimilar , Philander ! thou 435 440 ...
... feel , He scarce believes he ' s older for his years . Thus , at life's latest eve , we keep in store One disappointment fure , to crown the rest ; The difappointment of a promis'd hour . On This , or fimilar , Philander ! thou 435 440 ...
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Page 40 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Page 5 - 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 32 - 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 146 - Its tenure sure ; its income is divine. High-built abundance, heap on heap ! for what ? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more ; Then, make a richer scramble for the throng...
Page 249 - All the black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless thunders, breaking at his feet, Excite his pity, not impair his peace.
Page 62 - Death's tremendous blow. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm ; These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and Error's wretch, Man makes a death which Nature never made : Then on the point of his own fancy falls, And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
Page 5 - The bell strikes One. 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 1 feel the solemn sound.
Page 4 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve...
Page 52 - 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...
Page 80 - Though yet unsung, as deem'd, perhaps, too bold ? Angels are men of a superior kind ; Angels are men in lighter habit clad, High o'er celestial mountains wing'd in flight ; And men are angels, loaded for an hour, Who wade this miry vale, and climb with pain, And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.