 And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd At aught...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Page 206by Edward Young - 1802Full view - About this book
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 636 pages
...push eternity from human thought, And bury souls immortal in tho dust ? A soul immortal spending alt her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness...indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To wall a feather, or to drown a fly. YOUNG. things our competitors enjoy, takes a secret pleasure in... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust 1 A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd, or alarm'd A t aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1837 - 310 pages
...Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death expirei And is it in the flight of threescore years 146 To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls...spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous ioieness, 150 Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or induige,... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...this, all other aims are unworthy and poor ; chaff, stubble, worthless, and fit only for the flame. " A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarmed At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 pages
...more! [expire! In his full beam, and ripen for the just, Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death And is it in the flight of threescore years To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 324 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death expire ! And is it in the flight of threescore years To push...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...just, Where momentary ages are no more '. [pire ! Where Time, and Paul, and Chance, and Death exAnd is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! [pire! Where Time, and Pain, and Chance, and Death exAnd is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity...human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust 1 A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into... | |
 | James Dore - 1840 - 78 pages
...folly of those, who, though " winged by heaven to fly at infinite, pinion all their wishes here." " A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her...strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptured, or alarmed, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...for the just, Where momentary ages are no more ! Where time,and pain, and chance, and death expire .' the droves Of stars that gild the morn in charg O/re...the first born smile of Heaven ! Look in what pomp raptured or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,... | |
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