 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. * » * * * Such blessings nature pours, O'erstock'd mankind enjoy but half her stores: In distant wilds,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...rank poison in your veins ?" There is another passage from the same poem which shows equal wit : — " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." "We have glanced at some of the inequalities of the genius of Young, have seen its heights and depths,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira 's sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes ; but where 's his patient ? At the ball.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...airy land of noise and show, Where naught but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. DCCCLXXXVIII. Young. Sense, mere, dull, formal Sense, in this gay town Must have some vehicle to pass... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...airy land of noise and show, Where naught but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Young. DCCCLXXXVIII. Sense, mere, dull, formal Sense, in this gay town Must have some vehicle to pass... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...suits and sequences, and sits 475 Spectatress both and spectacle, a sad 33 Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Young, Satire v. And silent cypher, while her proxy plays. Others are dragg'd into the crowded room... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...suits and sequences, and sits 475 Spectatress both and spectacle, a sad 33 Like cats in air pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. And silent cypher, while her proxy plays. Others are dragg'd into the crowded room Between supporters... | |
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 352 pages
...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes ; but where 's his patient ? At the ball. The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures grow; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alire. • • • • • • Such blessings nature pours, O'erstock'd mankind enjoy but half her... | |
 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 pages
...inventive powers in this respect ; some, truly beautiful ; others, odd and quaint. For example : — " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys...majestic or dignified in Young's satires : not that ho was incapable of sublimity, but because the view he took of men and manners generally excluded it.... | |
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Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. 
