The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 50-52Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... life's mazes run , Of earth diffolv'd , or an extinguish'd fun ; ( Ye fublunary worlds , awake , awake ! Ye rulers of the nation , hear , and shake ! ) Thick clouds of darkness shall arife on day ; In fudden night all earth's dominions ...
... life's mazes run , Of earth diffolv'd , or an extinguish'd fun ; ( Ye fublunary worlds , awake , awake ! Ye rulers of the nation , hear , and shake ! ) Thick clouds of darkness shall arife on day ; In fudden night all earth's dominions ...
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... life are cheaply bought With gems and gold ; but oh , the storm so high ! 260 Nor gems nor gold the hopes of life can buy . The trembling prophet then , themselves to fave , They headlong plunge into the briny wave ; Down he defcends ...
... life are cheaply bought With gems and gold ; but oh , the storm so high ! 260 Nor gems nor gold the hopes of life can buy . The trembling prophet then , themselves to fave , They headlong plunge into the briny wave ; Down he defcends ...
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... life , forbear ! 25 " You wound your Guilford with each cruel tear : 30 " Did you not chide my grief ? Reprefs your own ; " Nor want compaffion for yourself alone : " Have you beheld , how , from the distant main , " The thronging waves ...
... life , forbear ! 25 " You wound your Guilford with each cruel tear : 30 " Did you not chide my grief ? Reprefs your own ; " Nor want compaffion for yourself alone : " Have you beheld , how , from the distant main , " The thronging waves ...
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... Life of my life , I beg you to refrain ! " The load which fate imposes , you increase ; " And help Maria to destroy my peace . ” But , oh ! against himself his labour turn'd ; The more He comforted , the more She mourn'd : Compaffion ...
... Life of my life , I beg you to refrain ! " The load which fate imposes , you increase ; " And help Maria to destroy my peace . ” But , oh ! against himself his labour turn'd ; The more He comforted , the more She mourn'd : Compaffion ...
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... life's mid ftage we tread , Few know fo many friends alive , as dead . Yet , as immortal , in our up - hill chace We prefs coy Fortune with unflacken'd pace ; Our ardent labours for the toys we seek , Join night to day , and Sunday to ...
... life's mid ftage we tread , Few know fo many friends alive , as dead . Yet , as immortal , in our up - hill chace We prefs coy Fortune with unflacken'd pace ; Our ardent labours for the toys we seek , Join night to day , and Sunday to ...
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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...