The Works of the English Poets: YoungH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... gods We fit ; and , wrapt in immortality , Shed generous tears on wretches born to die ; Their fate deploring , to forget our own ! What all the pomps and triumphs of our lives , But legacies in bloffom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown ...
... gods We fit ; and , wrapt in immortality , Shed generous tears on wretches born to die ; Their fate deploring , to forget our own ! What all the pomps and triumphs of our lives , But legacies in bloffom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown ...
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... gods , ambitious , triumph in his train . A fwift archangel , with his golden wing , 180 As blots and clouds , that darken and difgrace The scene divine , fweeps ftars and funs aside . And now , all drofs remov'd , heaven's own pure day ...
... gods , ambitious , triumph in his train . A fwift archangel , with his golden wing , 180 As blots and clouds , that darken and difgrace The scene divine , fweeps ftars and funs aside . And now , all drofs remov'd , heaven's own pure day ...
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... God in grandeur , and our world on fire ! All nature ftruggling in the pangs of death ! Doft thou not hear her ? Doft ... Gods , Defcended on poor earth - created man ! Great day of dread , decifion , and despair ! At thought of thee ...
... God in grandeur , and our world on fire ! All nature ftruggling in the pangs of death ! Doft thou not hear her ? Doft ... Gods , Defcended on poor earth - created man ! Great day of dread , decifion , and despair ! At thought of thee ...
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... God above affert that God in man . 230 235 249 Thrice happy they ! that enter now the court Heaven opens in their bofoms : but , how rare , Ah me ! that magnanimity , how rare ! What hero , like the man who stands himself ; Who dares to ...
... God above affert that God in man . 230 235 249 Thrice happy they ! that enter now the court Heaven opens in their bofoms : but , how rare , Ah me ! that magnanimity , how rare ! What hero , like the man who stands himself ; Who dares to ...
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... God and man , From his dark den , blafpheming , drags his chain , And rears his brazen front , with thunder fcarr'd : Receives his fentence , and begins his hell . All vengeance paft , now , feems abundant grace : Like meteors in a ...
... God and man , From his dark den , blafpheming , drags his chain , And rears his brazen front , with thunder fcarr'd : Receives his fentence , and begins his hell . All vengeance paft , now , feems abundant grace : Like meteors in a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æther art thou beams beneath bleffing blifs boaft boaſt boundleſs breaſt Britain Britain's Britannia's cauſe Codrus darkneſs death defcend diftant divine dread earth eternal facred fafe fame fate fatire feas fenfe fhall fhine fhould fing firſt fkies flame fleep fmile fome fong fons forrow foul fpirits ftand ftars ftill ftreams fubject fuch fwell genius glorious glory gods heart heaven human immortal juſt laſt lefs leſs Lorenzo luftre man's mankind mighty moft mortal moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt nature's ne'er night numbers o'er paffion pain paſt peace Pindar pleaſe pleaſure praife praiſe preſent pride profe proud raiſe reafon refign'd Refignation rife riſe ſcene ſenſe ſhall ſhe ſhine ſkies ſmile ſpeak ſphere ſpread ſpring ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtorm ſtrikes thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand throne Trade virtue Voltaire whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
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Página 4 - What is the world itself? thy world — a grave. Where is the dust that has not been alive ? The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors. From human mould we reap our daily bread. The globe around earth's hollow surface shakes, And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons. O'er devastation we blind revels keep : Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel.
Página 50 - Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ! Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust.
Página 37 - How glorious, then, appears the mind of man, When in it all the stars, and planets, roll ! And what it seems, it is : great objects make Great minds, enlarging as their views enlarge ; Those still more godlike, as these more divine. And more divine than these, thou canst not see.
Página 8 - Vain hope ! it is too late! Where, where, for shelter, shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale ? Great day ! for which all other days were made ; For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth ; And an eternity, the date of gods, Descended on poor earth-created man ! Great day of dread, decision, and despair!
Página 44 - What hand behind the scene, What arm Almighty, put these wheeling globes In motion, and wound up the vast machine?
Página 191 - To show (in vain !) he still retains his wits : Another marries, and his dear proves keen ; He writes as an hypnotic for the...
Página 90 - Twixt human and divine. But though full noble is my theme. Full urgent is my call To soften sorrow, and forbid The bursting tear to fall : The task I dread ; dare I to leave Of...
Página 190 - With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes : Slight, peevish insects round a genius rise, As a bright day awakes the world of flies ; With hearty malice, but with feeble wing, (To show they live) they flutter, and they sting : But as by depredations wasps proclaim The fairest fruit, so these the fairest fame.
Página 26 - Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! Nor tarries there ; I feel it at my heart. My heart, at once, it humbles, and exalts; Lays it in dust, and calls it to the skies.
Página 1 - Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords, And chants his sonnet to deceive the time, Till the due season calls him to repose : Thus I...