Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove. Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 61by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
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..... j • Difeafe, and Sorrow's -weeping train, And Death, fad refuge from the ftocms of Fate.! The The fond complaint, my Song, difprove*- - . . .,.•...heav'nly Mufe ? Night, and all her fickly dews, Her Speftres wan, and Birds of boding cry, He gives to range the dreary fky : Till down the eaflern cliffs... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...her warm cheek, anH rifing bofom, move The bloom of young Defire, and purple light of Love. II. i. Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury,...difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say, has he given in vain the heav'nly Mufe ? Night, and all her fickly dews, Her Spectres wan, and Birds of boding... | |
| Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...her warm cheek, and rifing foofom, move The bloom of young Defire, and purple light of Love. II, *. Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury,...Death-, fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate ! The fond complainr, my Song, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say,. has he given in vain the heor'niy... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1768 - 142 pages
...Sail/neji SI Sv/uu. HOMER. Odi 0. ! mpfvi'-Hft , <tpud AthenjcumII. I. 42 THE PROGRESS OF POESY. II. i. * Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury,...the ftorms of Fate ! The fond complaint, my Song, disprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say, has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Mufe ? Night, and all... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...Love. * M«f uatfuyaif S'KHTO irofut' HOMF.R. Od. o. PHRYKICHUS, apud .Athcnaum. II. i. Man's II. i. * Man's feeble race what ills await ! Labour, and Penury,...refuge from the ftorms of Fate! The fond complaint, my fong, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say, has he given in vain the heav'nly Mufe? Night, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 390 pages
...Mufttufwyaf ciiEiTO Graftai' Sav/tali Sr Supa. HOMER.' Od. 0. (t'rm fiiRYNiCHUs, apud AtheII. i. * Man's feeble race what ills await, Labour, and Penury,...Death, fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate! The fond complamt, my fong, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. , Say, has he given in vain the heavenly... | |
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...warm cheek, and rifing boforo, move h The bloom of young Defire, and purple light of Love, II. i. 1 Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury,...train, And Death, fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate ! r This and the five following lines which follow are fweetly Introduced by the ihort and unequal... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...Sorrow's weeping train, And death, fad refuge from the llorms ef-fa'e! The fond complaint, my fong, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. Say, has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Mufe? N'ght, and all her fickly dews, Her fpeclres wan, and birds of boding cry, lie gives to range the dreary... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...her warm cheek, and rifing bofom, move The bloom of young defire, and purple light of Love. II. i. Man's feeble race what ills await ! Labour, and Penury,...train, And Death, fad refuge from the ftorms of Fate t The fond complaint, my fong, difprove, And juftify the laws of Jove. $ay, has he given in vain the... | |
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...way : O'er her warm cheek and rifmg bofom move," The bloom of young Defire and purple light of Love. feeble race what ills await, labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, piftafe, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death , fad refuge from the Storms of Fate Î The fond complainr,... | |
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