The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Sivu 9
... pleasures on the toffing wave ! Eternal funfhine in the ftorms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perfpective ! Till at death's toll , whose ...
... pleasures on the toffing wave ! Eternal funfhine in the ftorms of life ! How richly were my noon - tide trances hung With gorgeous tapestries of pictur'd joys ! Joy behind joy , in endless perfpective ! Till at death's toll , whose ...
Sivu 11
... pleasure pains me to the heart . 225 230 Yet why complain ? or why complain for one ? 235 Hangs out the fun his luftre but for me , The fingle man ? Are angels all befide ? I mourn for millions : ' Tis the common lot ; In this fhape ...
... pleasure pains me to the heart . 225 230 Yet why complain ? or why complain for one ? 235 Hangs out the fun his luftre but for me , The fingle man ? Are angels all befide ? I mourn for millions : ' Tis the common lot ; In this fhape ...
Sivu 12
... pleasure ! fince in pains You rue more modifh vifits , vifit here , And breathe from your debauch : give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but so great Your impudence , you blush at what is right . Happy did forrow feize on ...
... pleasure ! fince in pains You rue more modifh vifits , vifit here , And breathe from your debauch : give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but so great Your impudence , you blush at what is right . Happy did forrow feize on ...
Sivu 14
... pleasure is the promife of thy pain . Misfortune , like a creditor fevere , But rifes in demand for her delay ; She makes a fcourge of past prosperity , To fting thee more , and double thy diftrefs . Lorenzo , fortune makes her court to ...
... pleasure is the promife of thy pain . Misfortune , like a creditor fevere , But rifes in demand for her delay ; She makes a fcourge of past prosperity , To fting thee more , and double thy diftrefs . Lorenzo , fortune makes her court to ...
Sivu 24
... pleasure : wafte , a pain ; That man might feel his error , if unscen : And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not , blundering , fplit on idleness for ease . I I Life's cares are comforts ; fuch by heaven defign'd ; 16 He that ...
... pleasure : wafte , a pain ; That man might feel his error , if unscen : And , feeling , fly to labour for his cure ; Not , blundering , fplit on idleness for ease . I I Life's cares are comforts ; fuch by heaven defign'd ; 16 He that ...
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æther againſt ambition angels art thou beneath beſt bleffings bleft blifs bliſs blood divine breaſt cauſe chimæra dæmons darkneſs death Deity deſpair diftant divine Doft dread duft earth endleſs eternal Ev'n facred fame fate feen fenfe fhall fhines fhould figh fing fkies fleeps flight fmile foft folar fome fong fool foon ftill fuch fure fyren give glory grave grief guilt happineſs heart heaven himſelf hope hour human juft juſt lefs life's loft Lorenzo man's moft mortal moſt muft muſt Narciffa nature nature's ne'er night nought numbers o'er paffion pain peace pleaſure praiſe prefent pride reafon rife ſcene ſcheme ſenſe ſhades ſhall ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpirit ſtars ſtill ſtorm ſtream ſtrike ſtrong thee thefe theme themſelves theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne tomb triumph truth virtue waſte whofe whoſe wife wing wiſdom worfe wretched
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Sivu 28 - Behold him, there, juft rifing to a god. 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. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe, Receive the blefling, and adore the chance, That threw in this Bethefda your difeafe; If
Sivu 30 - Behold him, there, juft rifing to a god. 630 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. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe, Receive the bleffing, and adore the chance, 635
Sivu 4 - fudden death. How dreadful that deliberate furprize ! Be wife to-day; 'tis madnefs to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wifdom is pufh'd out of life. Procraftination is the thief of time; Year after year it fteals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vaft concerns of an eternal fcene.
Sivu 50 - The deep damp vault, the darknefs, and the worm; Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imaginations fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, which nature never made; 15 Then on the point of his own fancy falls ; And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one. But
Sivu 4 - s no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thought can rife, Than man's prefumption on to-morrow's dawn ? Where is to-morrow ? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverfe Is fure to none; and yet on this perhaps, This peradventure, infamous for lies, As on a rock of adamant, we build
Sivu 4 - on to-morrow's dawn ? Where is to-morrow ? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverfe Is fure to none; and yet on this perhaps, This peradventure, infamous for lies, As on a rock of adamant, we build Our mountain hopes; fpin out eternal fchemes,
Sivu 8 - but for moral aid. Thou think'ft it folly to be wife too foon. Youth is not rich in Time, it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, fparing; pay No moment, but in purchafe of its worth $ 50 And what its worth,
Sivu 4 - That all men are about to live," For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themfelves the compliment to think They one day (hall not drivel : and their pride On this reverfion takes up ready