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... proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it , but to make it sure . O'er globes and sceptres , now on thrones it swells ; Now trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ' Tis Tory , Whig ; it plots , prays , preaches ...
... proud , to gain it , toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it , but to make it sure . O'er globes and sceptres , now on thrones it swells ; Now trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ' Tis Tory , Whig ; it plots , prays , preaches ...
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... Proud labour frowns , And painted sorrow smiles in courts . These scenes untried Subdued my pride , To Fortune's arrows bared my breast , Till wisdom came , A hoary dame ! And told me pleasure was in rest . Oh may I steal Along the vale ...
... Proud labour frowns , And painted sorrow smiles in courts . These scenes untried Subdued my pride , To Fortune's arrows bared my breast , Till wisdom came , A hoary dame ! And told me pleasure was in rest . Oh may I steal Along the vale ...
Page 55
... proud to be fond of a serious tutor ; and when the author is in a passion , the laugh generally , as in conversation , turns against him . Of this delicate satire , he adds , Horace is the best master : he ap- pears in good humour while ...
... proud to be fond of a serious tutor ; and when the author is in a passion , the laugh generally , as in conversation , turns against him . Of this delicate satire , he adds , Horace is the best master : he ap- pears in good humour while ...
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... proud , and what is very ingenious , very subtile , and almost exact ; but sometimes he is less lucky , as when , in his Night Thoughts , ' having it dropped into his mind that the orbs , floating in space , might be called the dust of ...
... proud , and what is very ingenious , very subtile , and almost exact ; but sometimes he is less lucky , as when , in his Night Thoughts , ' having it dropped into his mind that the orbs , floating in space , might be called the dust of ...
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... proud words , and vain ! Implicit treason to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of Heav'n ! I clasp'd the phantoms , and I found them air . O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What darts of agony had miss'd my heart ...
... proud words , and vain ! Implicit treason to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of Heav'n ! I clasp'd the phantoms , and I found them air . O had I weigh'd it ere my fond embrace ! What darts of agony had miss'd my heart ...
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Page 363 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 185 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 397 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 124 - 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 363 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Page 270 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Page 77 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Page 375 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 75 - To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.