 | 1819 - 552 pages
...life. - - - These verses, and the notes we have appended to them, will convey our sentiments on the whole poem. Were it not exquisitely 'wrought, and...throughout, we should not think it worth minute and microscopal criticism: but it is on the finest mirrors that the smallest specks are seen. The next... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again ? Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known ; but — No delay ! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 320 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again ? Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known; but — No delay ! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 438 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again ? Our pathway leads but to a precipice; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known; but — No delay! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again ? Our pathway leads but to a precipice; And all must follow, fearful as it is! From the first step 'tis known; but—No delay! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand... | |
 | 1819 - 860 pages
...life. - - - These verses, and the notes we have appended to them, will convey our sentiments on the whole poem. Were it not exquisitely wrought, and laboriously...Sermon on the Resurrection. Our pathway leads but In a precipice; And all must follow, fearful as it »! From the first step 'tis known ; but— No delay... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again? Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known ; but — No delay! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. A thousand... | |
 | 1840 - 838 pages
...like a voice from the English poet, borrowed from Masthe world of spirits. We think, and sillon — Our pathway leads but to a precipice, And all must follow, fearful as it is, From the first step 'tis known — but, no delay ! On I 'tis decreed I — We falter — and obey.f... | |
 | 1841 - 764 pages
...tombe, tout est évanoui, tout est échappé." Mr. Rogers has given this noble passage in verse : — Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known ; but — No delay ! On — 'tis decreed — we tremble, and obey.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...wrought, That, like the visions of a love-sick brain, Who would not sleep and dream them o'er again ? Our pathway leads but to a precipice ; And all must follow, fearful as it is ! From the first step 'tis known ; but — No delay ! On, 'tis decreed. We tremble and obey. 1 A... | |
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